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...Twitter was a clown car that fell into a gold mine, then a gold mine that fell to a car clown. Now it’s a metaphor of sorts....
...The canal sparkled beneath a cloudless sky, and the trees were a resplendent mass of red, yellow, bronze and gold, their leaves floating down like confetti in the breeze....
...Estimates start at a few hundred euros for the likes of zoomorphic bronze gold-weights or gold jewellery, but in the current market, fuelled at the top end by collectors from other fields in pursuit of masterpieces...
...Citgo, which operates three refineries in the Gulf of Mexico and the Midwest, is held as collateral against the bonds....
...Balanchine’s 1953 gem Valse Fantaisie glints with the menace and turmoil that consumes its famous kin La Valse....
...“It was like a rainbow leading to this pot of gold,” he says of North Carolina’s capital city. “It felt like there were so many hidden treasures.”...
...The most volatile asset was gold, at 20 per cent....
...The designer’s first collections have sculptural rings and cuffs, joined by a Tetris-like gem-set necklace. Lights! Camera!...
...Stephen Ardizzone says he visited a relative in the gold pit in 1981 after his first year of university and never returned to school....
...0.40%) at 11,940 Currencies €/$ 1.07 (1.07) $/¥ 119.65 (119.66) £/$ 1.49 (1.49) €/£ 0.7181 (0.7188) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.44 at 61.64 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.56 at 56.05 100 Oz Gold...
...0.19%) at 11,454 Currencies €/$ 1.12 (1.12) $/¥ 119.64 (119.34) £/$ 1.53 (1.53) €/£ 0.7302 (0.7309) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.02 at 66.76 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.18 at 59.81 100 Oz Gold...
...Gem-set yellow-gold jewellery was a key look, and designers experimented with buffed or faceted stones, such as citrines and carnelians, to create technicolour pieces....
...“This sounds horrible, but an MBA means nothing,” she says, adding: “We were promised a pot of gold at the end of the education rainbow, but the pot of gold does not exist.”...
...Adding to the uncertainty over the timing of any Fed move was a much stronger than expected survey of business activity in the US Midwest....
...4,033 Dax down -98.65 (-1.17%) at 8,300 Currencies €/$ 1.33 (1.33) $/¥ 97.26 (97.74) £/$ 1.53 (1.53) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.22 at 107.96 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.05 at 105.35 100 Oz Gold...
...worth hundreds of millions: The bank is in discussions with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about paying a big fine to settle allegations it manipulated electricity markets in California and the Midwest...
...at 4,069 Dax up +19.10 (+0.23%) at 8,417 Currencies €/$ 1.34 (1.34) $/¥ 98.67 (98.68) £/$ 1.56 (1.56) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.16 at 111.20 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.55 at 106.97 100 Oz Gold...
...“We weren’t the same kind of person,” Blake says in a massive understatement, “but that was good” – which, since the outcome of the volatile mix was literary and pictorial gold, is indisputably true....
...Gold strengthened again, up 0.7 per cent to $1,293 a troy ounce. The precious metal is up 5 per cent this month, as fears of a rapid exit from monetary stimulus by the Federal Reserve have eased....
...However, the insurance companies lost their gold-plated credit ratings after making a disastrous move into insuring mortgage-related derivatives....
...3,767 Dax up +24.70 (+0.31%) at 7,984 Currencies €/$ 1.31 (1.31) $/¥ 99.53 (99.65) £/$ 1.52 (1.52) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.07 at 102.93 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.16 at 97.83 100 Oz Gold...
...(Financial Times) BoE helped sell looted Nazi gold: “The Bank of England played a vital role in one of the darkest episodes in central banking history, facilitating the sale of gold looted by the Nazis...
...It was a big hit and the gold jewels were made for three years. The impetus then fizzled out and production was briefly halted....
...Chase was expected to announce a settlement of about $400m with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as early as today, after being formally charged with rigging power markets in California and the Midwest...
...crystal caseback, through which you can see the action of the self-winding movement. 7 De Grisogono Sugar £163,900 Geneva jewellery house De Grisogono presents another opulent creation dripping with gems...
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