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...Only Gregory Kunde, as Enée, really rises above all the nonsense....
...Having gained 4 per cent in the first week of November, it dropped 3.3 per cent in the second to end the week around $1,890 a troy ounce....
...The precious metal reached as high as $1,965 a troy ounce on Monday morning, before reversing course to trade 4.4 per cent lower at $1,865....
...Investors piled into haven assets, with gold rising 0.75 per cent to $1,583 per troy ounce....
...The British Museum will next month open a major exhibition, “Troy: Myth and Reality”, sponsored by BP. Responding to the RSC news, it noted the tight public funding climate facing arts bodies....
...The price of a troy ounce of gold has fallen another 3.3 per cent this month to a one-and-a-half year low of $1,182.90, extending this year’s tumble to more than 9 per cent....
...Additional reporting by Gregory Meyer and Kate Allen Letter in response to this article: The necessity — and scarcity — of insurance / From Giovanna Reda, head of emergency programmes, Cafod...
...ETF gold bullion holdings swelled by more than 40 per cent to 64m troy ounces before the US election in November, Bloomberg data show. The funds have since unloaded 5m ounces....
...This year gold has risen 24 per cent to $1,316 a troy ounce as investors have seen it as a safe haven asset over concerns over the health of the global economy amid negative global bond yields and uncertainty...
...Exchange traded funds backed by gold have dumped 4m troy ounces of bullion as prices gave up gains for the year, Bloomberg data show....
...As funds sold gold bars to meet redemptions over the past two years, gold prices plunged from $1,900 per troy ounce to $1,315. The SPDR peaked at $77bn in August 2011....
...“Homes are selling very quickly and for more than listing prices,” says Gregory Bega, an estate agent with Sotheby’s International Realty....
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...Meanwhile, gold rose by as much as 1.8 per cent to a four-month high of $1,350 a troy ounce on Monday....
...Silver prices have gyrated in the past 10 years, spiking to a record high above $49 per troy ounce in April 2011 before collapsing. Spot silver was up 1.6 per cent Wednesday at $21.87....
...Gold was a fraction firmer in New York at $1,598.18 a troy ounce....
...They also want the army engineers to speed up work to blow up rock pinnacles on the river bed near Troy, Illinois, that are the biggest single obstacle to navigation....
...Since then gold, at $1,600 per troy ounce, has surpassed the platinum price, which is almost $1,400 per ounce....
...commodities prices also fell in early trading on Friday, with copper for three-month delivery on the London Metal Exchange down 0.4 per cent to $7,408.75 a tonne and gold falling 0.7 per cent to $1,551.60 a troy...
...out in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, in which the Renaissance magician sells his soul for things basically provided by today’s internet – comic tricks (such as being invisible) and virtual sex (with Helen of Troy...
...Spot gold in London fell to $1,523 a troy ounce, the weakest since July and down almost $400 from a nominal record reached this year. The reversal has spooked investors searching for havens....
...The announcement from Rome reversed gains made earlier on Tuesday as gold surpassed $1,800 a troy ounce for the first time since September....
...Nonetheless, the yellow metal remained within reach of the psychological barrier of $1,600, trading on Friday at $1,588 a troy ounce, down from a nominal record of $1,594.16 touched on Thursday but still...
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