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...Together with “blistering” demand from central banks, according to the WGC, Chinese demand helped push the gold price to record highs last month and keep it above $2,000 per troy ounce this year....
...Gold, which is typically bought as a hedge or haven by investors, hit $1,841 a troy ounce, extending gains since the start of December to more than 3 per cent....
...The Women of Troy by Pat Barker, Hamish Hamilton £18.99, 320 pages Follow @ftweekend on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Its wartime themes of male violence and female oppression — described in vivid and excoriating detail — make The Women of Troy a tale for our own times....
...“The Women of Troy”, by Pat Barker, is published by Hamish Hamilton Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...The precious metal was down 0.1 per cent on Wednesday at $1,906 a troy ounce. A stronger US dollar also makes gold, and other commodities, more expensive for buyers holding other currencies....
...Recalling a video filmed by surfer Laird Hamilton as he fled the 2018 Woolsey Fire in Malibu, Longo appended his own dramatic narrative to the scene. (He is deeply influenced by cinema.)...
...The price of the silvery-white metal, used in cars’ catalytic converters to limit harmful emissions, soared 270 per cent over five years to a record high above $2,800 a troy ounce in February....
...“Of all the correlations used to analyse gold, that 10-year Tips has proven the most reliable,” said Colin Hamilton, analyst at BMO Capital Markets....
...The prizes went to Debbie McWilliams (for Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool), Kate Rhodes James (Bodyguard) and Paul Wooller, Felicity French and Trevor Jackson (Hamilton)....
...Her broader riposte is her latest novel, The Silence of the Girls (Hamish Hamilton), which retells the siege of Troy through the voice of Briseis, the young queen who became Achilles’ sex slave....
...Her Achilles is a man not just brutalised by war, but fatally maimed in mind and soul long before he came to Troy....
...“Usually this marks a later part of the cycle, but also one where commodity prices are well supported,” says Mr Hamilton....
...Douglas Elliman is selling a four-bedroom townhouse on Hamilton Terrace for $3.5m. Built in 1898, the 20ft-wide property measures 4,122 sq ft and has four bathrooms....
...to consolidate five separate Bacardi companies they had variously spawned – in the US, Bermuda, the Bahamas (the branch he headed before then), Puerto Rico and Mexico – into a single entity now based in Hamilton...
...Gold rose 0.2 per cent to $1,151.60 a troy ounce....
...“When you sit in the lecture room, it is the very place where Schliemann talked to the cabinet about the discovery of Troy.” In German....
...THE RUBY IN HER NAVEL by Barry Unsworth Hamish Hamilton ₤17.99, 328 pages Barry Unsworth’s 15th novel, longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize, is part entertainment and part meditation on human venality...
...Brad Pitt’s turn in Troy, Luna testifies, has done wonders for sales of the OWC translation of The Odyssey....
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