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Gold Fails to Hold Above $800 in the Face of US Dollar Strength

marketoracle.co.uk     9 hrs ago   43 related          

SPOT GOLD PRICES struggled below $800 per ounce in Asia and London on Friday, heading towards a 5% loss for the week as the US Dollar rose yet again versus everything else except Treasury bonds. Crude oil dipped towards...                    

Vale seeks 20% iron ore price rise from China

ft.com     9 hrs ago   8 related          

By Patti Waldmeir in Shanghai, Javier Blas in London and Song Jung-a in Seoul Vale of Brazil, the world’s largest iron ore producer, is pressuring Chinese steelmakers to pay as much as 20 per cent more for their contracted...                    

Central Banks Drowning in US Dollar Seek to Expand Gold Reserves

marketoracle.co.uk     5 hrs ago   3 related          

"...My God, this is the time. If everyone wants gold we're all going to be ruined, because there is not enough gold to go around..." – J.F.K. to the Fed chairman, Aug. 1962 ONCE UPON A TIME money meant gold (and ever...                    

Google: 10 years from now

guardian.co.uk     11 hrs ago   46 related          

In the next day or so you'll probably find yourself hearing a lot about how Google started 10 years ago, and, well, isn't it remarkable that a company that started in a garage has survived that long and become a household...                    

Ian Jack: Art's new democrats are due a lesson in the economics of taste

guardian.co.uk     3 hrs ago   5 related          

With no world shortage in Damien Hirsts, the credit crunch may be about to visit Britart's pioneers The new movement in contemporary art is called democracy. A woman at the big new Saatchi gallery, which opens in Chelsea...                    

Buyback plan boosts SMG after slump

timesonline.co.uk     5 hrs ago   1 related          

Investors in SMG, the Scottish media group, were cheered yesterday after the company revealed that it was planning to buy back as much as £30 million in stock. The group, which recently sold Virgin Radio to Times of India,...                    

Keeper of the Kajaki dam sees dream come closer to reality

independent.co.uk     4 hrs ago   1 related          

Thirty years of Afghan history has left an indelible mark on Sayed Rasoul. He was 22 when he first came to work at the Kajaki dam three decades ago. Since then he has watched one violent era after another take its toll...                    

The Guardian and Observer guides to wine: Part 1: Reds: Victoria Moore on why she loves wine

guardian.co.uk     4 hrs ago   1 related          

Sadly, the 60s semi in which I grew up had no ancestral cellar. Wine drinking also had a vestigial aura of elitism, a hangover from hundreds of years of class distinctions that even extended to what people put in a glass...                    

Schools look to expansion in the Gulf

ft.com     5 hrs ago          

By David Turner, Education Correspondent English private schools are expanding into the Gulf, seeking to capitalise on burgeoning demand from wealthy expatriates and locals and keep fees down in the UK. Oundle School is to...                    

Pakistan: Now or Never?

reuters.com     5 hrs ago   10 related          

Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock...                    

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