Hints and tips:
...truth about the UAW” and directing them to a website with claims about the union’s “broken promises” and “anti-Israel stance” after it called for a ceasefire in Gaza, a point that resonates in a Bible Belt...
...(“China’s $1tn Belt and Road Initiative turns sour amid spiralling bad loans”, Report, April 17)....
...China’s $1tn Belt and Road Initiative infrastructure finance programme has been hit by spiralling bad loans, with more than $78bn-worth of borrowing turning sour over the past three years....
...The metal, used by investors as a store of value in times of stress, has climbed more than 5 per cent this month and broke above $1,900 a troy ounce on Friday before easing back to $1,888....
...(CNBC, FT) What we’re reading China’s Belt and Road debt fears spiral . . ....
...becoming a bit more global with international buyers shopping here,” says Alexander Ali, chief executive of The Society Group, a Los Angeles marketing agency with a string of high-profile sales under its belt...
...Tanzania-focused Acacia has continued to spend money on exploration despite a five-year decline in gold prices from a peak of over $1,900 a troy ounce in 2011 to $1,229 today....
...Acacia has been exploring in Burkina Faso’s Houndé belt, where Endeavour is currently building a project. It would also result in a gold company with over 1m ounces of annual production, Mr. Guy said....
...Since it began, platinum has stayed around $1,450 a troy ounce, only rising briefly to $1,485 earlier this month. However, as the strike depletes companies’ stockpiles the price could be pushed up....
...Bullion rose 0.1 per cent to $1,255 a troy ounce, having earlier touched $1,259, its highest level since mid-December....
...Sebastian Lyon is chief executive of Troy Asset Management and investment adviser to Personal Assets Trust...
...Reports of the wage agreement saw the price of the precious metal fall 2.8 per cent to $1,614.80 a troy ounce....
...But as the unrest spread, Gold Fields has been forced to halt operations at two mines that have cost it 32,000 troy ounces in lost production - equivalent to a ton of gold....
...Platinum prices rose to their highest level in six months, hitting an intraday high of $1,726.49 per troy ounce in London....
...But if you think the Bible belt is full of mad preachers talking in tongues in wooden shacks, correct your view – Westside is more like it....
...Touchstone Gold, of which Mr Buchan is chairman, will announce its intention to list on Aim on Monday to develop its gold concessions in the highly prospective Segovia gold belt in northern Colombia....
...In London, spot silver fell to an intraday low of $37.32 per troy ounce, down 5.1 per cent from Thursday’s close....
...Palladium hit a fresh nine-year high of $783 a troy ounce. In oil, Nymex February West Texas Intermediate was 49 cents higher at $91.49 a barrel....
...In commodities, gold reached a record high of $1,248.95 a troy ounce on Friday before easing back and the euro price went through the €1,000 mark for the first time....
...With its slender moulded seat and its dainty stiletto legs, Troy is perhaps the slimmest and most refined one yet....
...Gold traded below the $1,000 mark, up 0.1 per cent at $993 a troy ounce, taking a lead from the dollar’s fluctuations....
...Rain has returned to drought-hit Argentina and more wet weather is expected across the country’s agricultural belt....
...Following the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, two historic Wall Street institutions, and the looming belt-tightening in those banks that remain, New York City brokers are perhaps the most concerned...
...Gold fell 2.2 per cent to $738 a troy ounce, ranging between a low of $737.10 and a high of $776.30, under pressure from a recovery in the dollar....
...The city was the birthplace of Barry Goldwater, the conservative icon, and has long been the epicentre of Sun Belt libertarianism, which preaches self-reliance and a limited role for government....
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