COVID-19 continues to pressure global equities lower, as it supports gold Within the extreme carnage in the U.S. equities markets, both gold futures and spot pricing remained in an upswing. Although any rise within both of those precious metals were tepid at best and also affected by a stronger U.S. dollar that gained value since hitting it’s low on Friday. After the U.S. dollar traded to a high of above 103 on the dollar index it had five consecutive days…