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...high this month, above $2,400....
...Since November, gold has gained a fifth to trade just below $2,000 per troy ounce after the collapse of three regional US banks and the takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS....
...Gold now trades at about $1,780 per troy ounce, following the US Federal Reserve lifting interest rates from near zero to a range of 4.25 to 4.5 per cent, including this week’s hike....
...The Docklands has one of the highest office vacancy rates in London at 15.5 per cent, according to data provider CoStar....
...A: $2.5bn Six stocks: AMC, Gamestop, Coinbase, Commerzbank, Credit Suisse, Nomura. Which is the highest and the lowest by CEO pay in 2021?...
...We expect a peak-to-trough fall in GDP of around 2.5 per cent....
...Prosecutors alleged he reaped huge illegal gains, including a trove of gold bars found at his home, Caixin reports....
...Investors owned it for years in bars or coins, but then in 2004 a gold ETF was created, and tens of billions [of dollars] have been invested in it . . . “It's about convenience and access....
...“It’s a case of selling anything,” Ross Norman, a gold market veteran and former trader for Credit Suisse, said....
...He quit Credit Suisse to start a business on the same day he received a British passport in 2013....
...It’s then that I wonder how I can bear to leave this city of rogues and dreamers, of €5 doughnuts and €2 pints, of playgrounds and beaches, that has been home to me on and off since I was 17....
...Gold-backed financial products represent only 0.2 per cent of the value of India’s stock of gold, according to refiner MMTC-PAMP....
...50 and 100 grams of gold...
...● In an era when vulgar bling is hailed as an art form, the discovery of a 1,111 carat diamond in Botswana will have some gold diggers salivating....
...(NYT) An American walks into a bar in China… Comedian Des Bishop learnt Mandarin and took his stand-up show to China....
...(See Chart 2.)...
...The 36 tonne purchase – equivalent to about 2,900 standard 400-ounce gold bars – would make the country the 43rd largest official sector bullion holder, behind Egypt, Brazil and Denmark....
...Coins and small gold bars are popular, too....
...At her marriage recently, Purvi received gold rings, bangles, earrings, necklaces and other gold ornaments cumulatively weighing about 500 grams....
...The MSCI Asia Pacific index gained 0.5% cent after dropping 1.2% over the past two days....
...At Beijing’s largest gold store, Caibai, people were queuing up to buy gold bars on Friday morning. “I am here to buy gold bars because the price is dropping,” said one woman waiting in the queue....
...-3.10 at 377.90 10-year government bond yields (%) US 1.84 UK 1.92 Germany 1.69 CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe -2.59bps at 176.81bp Markit iTraxx Europe +2.41bps at 120.47bp Markit...
...But, bar that outcome, the prognosis looks to be priced in....
...His three top advisers – Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Credit Suisse – have been on board for five years....
...You can also receive kilobars and 100 gram bars, but you need to pay for the fabrication and handling cost of these bars. The transaction cost for these small bars is a few percent....
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