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...In a note to clients published last week by the brokerage CLSA under the title “Japan’s perfect demographics”, the equity strategist Nicholas Smith argued that investors may see a range of benefits in a...
...Gold, which typically advances during periods of uncertainty, rose as much as 1.2 per cent to $1,998 a troy ounce, reaching its highest level in more than a month, before falling back to $1,977, a 0.1 per...
...The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six other currencies, dropped 1.1 per cent, while gold fell 2.9 per cent to $1,993 a troy ounce....
...Gold fell 0.7 per cent to $1,790 per troy ounce....
...There’s also Helen McCrory in Medea, Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear in Nicholas Hytner’s excellent Othello, the beautiful Amadeus with Lucian Msamati and Helen Mirren in Phèdre....
...Gold, another haven asset, was up 0.7 per cent at $1,941.55 per troy ounce....
...Ideally, companies should aim for what Nassim Nicholas Taleb has called an “antifragile” approach, going “beyond resilience and robustness” so that they can adapt to, and even thrive on, disorder....
...The prices of safer assets such as gold and highly rated government bonds dipped as the relief washed over Wall Street, with the yellow metal falling more than 1.4 per cent to $1,327.3 a troy ounce by late...
...Records show that occasional efforts have been made to “improve” the population with the introduction of domestic purebreds, including, variously, a white stallion from the stud farm of Tsar Nicholas II...
...Gold, which had climbed as much as $9 earlier in the trading day, reversed to trade $6 lower at $1,275 a troy ounce....
...“When you look at prices in places like Woodside and Palo Alto, Menlo Park is actually less expensive in relative terms,” says Keri Nicholas, of Alain Pinel Realtors....
...The number of property sales in the 17 communities that make up Fire Island rose 50 per cent in 2014, compared with a year earlier, according to data compiled by Nicholas Newman, of William J Newman Fire...
...The impressive wine list is collated by Juan Van Huyssteen from South Africa and the music, which livens up many Dubai restaurants, is curated by Nicholas Séchaud....
...Among the precious metals, gold fell 1.2 per cent to $1,276 a troy ounce, with silver and platinum also down. Palladium was the lone riser, up 1.3 per cent to $874 a troy ounce....
...Last year the conference brought together another surreal combination of speakers when hedge fund mogul John Paulson spoke alongside former French president Nicholas Sarkozy and The Godfather star Al Pacino...
...This brave new world of digital business is explored in The Curve: From Freeloaders into Superfans – The Future of Business by Nicholas Lovell (Portfolio Penguin), a consultant who provides financial advice...
...A large painting of Agamemnon looking like Tsar Nicholas II is eventually removed to reveal the king of kings and his trophy concubine, Cassandra, back from Troy....
...“There’s a very clear rotation out of more defensive assets,” said Nicholas Brooks, head of research at ETF Securities, which launched the world’s first physical gold ETF in 2003....
...Gold prices have slid 12 per cent since October to less than $1,580 a troy ounce, and are down 18 per cent from their record nominal high in 2011....
...Or is Nicholas Penny’s remark more of a circus barker’s promise, designed to pull in passing trade?...
...The gold fund’s ascent comes as the precious metal on Monday reached a new record of more than $1,894 per troy ounce as investors worry that government debt burdens will erode the value of currencies....
...Livadia was built by Tsar Nicholas II as a summer palace, and sepia photographs of the doomed imperial family on the walls are among its most vivid and melancholy modern contents....
...Gold fell 1.7 per cent to $1,335.50 a troy ounce and platinum dropped 1.6 per cent to $1,642.49 a troy ounce....
...In precious metals, spot gold lost 1.9 per cent to $1,340.60 a troy ounce. But soft commodities ignored the dollar’s strength to push higher....
...Investment demand drove up the price of spot gold to a nominal record high of $1,248 a troy ounce in May, although it has slipped slightly since then....
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