According to Zhitong Finance APP, gold stocks opened higher collectively. As of the time of publication, China Silver Group (00815) rose 5.13% to HKD 0.41; Lingbao Gold (03330) rose 4.7% to HKD 5.79; ZHAOJIN MINING (01818) rose 4.35% to HKD 14.86; Shandong Gold (01787) rose 4.19% to HKD 16.4; China Gold International (02099) rose 2.82% to HKD 51. On the news front, trade tensions have heightened risk aversion, coupled with bets on the Federal Reserve easing monetary policy, leading gold prices to hit a new historical high on Thursday. Overnight, New York futures gold rose 1.85%, breaking through the USD 3,000 mark for the first time, closing at USD 3,001.3 per ounce, a new historical high; spot gold also touched a historical high of USD 2,990 this morning. Analysts at Macquarie Group expect that by the third quarter of this year, gold prices could rise to a record high of USD 3,500 per ounce. Debon Securities' research report points out that in the long term, gold prices are expected to continue to rise driven by factors such as the expansion of the dollar scale; in the short term, the continued rise in expectations for Federal Reserve interest rate cuts and recent short-term stimuli from CPI and other data are likely to allow gold prices to end their fluctuations and return to an upward trend, with opportunities for gold and related stocks gradually emerging