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Nvidia shares fall as US chip sales curbs hurt the company. Gold hits record levels
Asian and European stocks fell along with U.S. futures on Wednesday as AI darling Nvidia was hit by U.S. restrictions against chip sales to China, as the global war on trade intensified. Gold rose to a new record while the dollar fell. Treasury yields moved slightly higher in anticipation of the Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell's speech later that day. The traders are wondering if Powell will echo the tone of his Fed Governor Christopher Waller. Washington has issued new export licensing for Nvidia’s H20 artificial intelligence chip and AMD’s MI308 artificial intelligent chip sales to China. Nvidia estimated that...