Hints and tips:
...“As long as you keep at it, as long as you don’t give up, you’ll find a partner, someone who’s right for you, someday,” she writes at the peak of her obsession....
...Goldman Sachs says peak production is “fast approaching” in copper and yet there have been very few announcements of additional investments in new mines that “traditionally push this peak further away”....
...On peak trading days over the summer, it accounted for a quarter of EBS’s total volume....
...The FTSE 100 is again close to its all-time peak set at the end of the last millennium....
...The FTSE 100 briefly passed its closing peak set in 1999 as the tech boom was about to turn nasty....
Deborah Fuhr on ETF’s record growth in 2014 and challenges ahead
James Mackintosh on apparent disconnect between S&P and bond yields
...Alan Greenspan warned of 'irrational exuberance' in stocks back in 1996 before equities climbed to their tech bubble peak....
...Demand for oil could be approaching a peak, as companies grow more energy efficient and use cars less....
...Small caps in the US have hit their fifth new high of the year and UK smaller companies soared past their previous peak a month ago - both climbing 172 per cent since 2009....
...Markets are less mesmerized by worries of impending catastrophe than they were at the peak of the crisis, when assets would rise and fall together....
...Javier Blas, commodities editor, warns that the retreat from that peak does not mean food inflation has abated....
...The S&P 500 is within sneezing distance of last year's post-crisis peak. James Mackintosh, investment editor, examines why analysts' forecasts are so gloomy and whether they could hold the market back....
...High up on the windswept flank of an Alpine peak called Le Brévent is a steep, wild gully that falls by more than a kilometre before arriving at the French resort of Chamonix....
James Mackintosh on why it's time to batten down the hatches
...The Met has said it will be drawing on forces nationwide to deliver the required 12,000 officers on peak days during the games – 9,000 of which will be deployed in London....
...James Mackintosh, investment editor, looks to history to see what happens to those who buy the supposedly safe investments at the peak of a bull market - and whether investors picking bonds should seek out...
...But with overall sales figures down by 25 per cent since the peak of 2008, many more makers are adopting the tactic of producing limited edition pieces in order to increase the appeal of their products....
...If it defaults on the loans, owners of the lower classes of bonds will face losses, although Darryl Wheeler, an analyst at Citigroup does not expect them to be major....
...The decline in oil prices came in a week when the US driving season ended, a period that marks the peak in petrol demand in the world’s largest oil consuming market....
...The New Zealand dollar hit a one-month high of $0.6226 after inflation rose by a surprise 1.5 per cent in the second quarter, taking the annual rate to 4 per cent, near a six-year peak....
...The previous peak for the August WTI contract was $75.35 touched on April 24. IPE Brent crude for August delivery rose $1.58 to $74.09 a barrel in London trade....
...Gold hit a 26-year peak of $730 a troy ounce on Friday while silver reached a 25-year peak last week of $15.17....
...Since December 2003 the ATX in Vienna had gained 277 per cent in the run up to its peak last month....
...Silver fell 13 per cent on Thursday after hitting a 23-year peak of $14.68 an ounce earlier that day....
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