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Gold is ripping higher

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There goes gold. 

On Monday gold prices were rallying, gaining more than 3.5% and trading above $1,200 an ounce for the first time since June. 

Gold prices are up about 10% this year already as it's been a terrible year for stocks and other risk assets, with gold — typically viewed as a "safe haven" trade — serving as a beneficiary of this chaos. 

On Monday stocks in the US were getting smoked with the Dow off more than 300 points and the Nasdaq down more than 2.4% as tech stocks continue to get hammered. 

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Myles was formerly Business Insider's markets correspondent. He joined Business Insider as a markets reporter in May 2014, coming to BI from The Fly on The Wall where he was a writer for its breaking-news team. He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut.