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...The yellow metal was trading at $2,252.22 per troy ounce in New York on Monday morning, according to LSEG data, a gain of about 0.9 per cent from its previous close on March 28, before the Good Friday....
...Bullion rallied as much as 2 per cent to $2,111 per troy ounce this morning, a fresh all-time high, before slipping to $2,064 per troy ounce, according to Refinitiv data....
...Sousa took charge of a fully involving performance, which at its best, as in the closing scenes of the sack of Troy or the call of the Trojans to war, went at white heat....
...Gold prices advanced 1 per cent to $1,850 per troy ounce, rebounding off a seven-month low. Investors tend to rush to the precious metal during times of uncertainty....
...Dressed in white, they toy with blood-red balls of wool, fretting over their prospects under the victorious Greeks....
...Gold prices hit an all-time high of $2,111 per troy ounce, boosted by a fall in the US dollar as traders upped their bets that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next year....
...Undaunted by the fact that the mirror refuses to suggest she resembles Cleopatra or Helen of Troy, she is still certain that this dress renders her incomparably beautiful....
...A distinctive feature of the Euboean oak is the white underside to its glossy, serrated leaves....
...From small talk about white-collar jobs in tech and HR, it is difficult to know what else we have in common....
...Other SRM techniques range from painting the world’s roofs white to putting giant mirrors into orbit....
...Spain’s white-wine game is hitting new heights in the Canary Islands with Suertes del Marques’ Listan Blancos, a highly appetising type of liquid rock that, if I didn’t know better, I’d imagine had seeped...
...As a result, the precious metal has been hovering close to its nominal all-time high of $2,072 per troy ounce since late March. How long will the new gold boom last? We’re also reading . . ....
...The Simpsons had a character called Troy McClure, who always introduced himself with the words, “You may remember me from . . . ”....
...Alexandra White Will the ECB raise rates by three-quarter points again?...
...It starts, quite mischievously, by sending you through an archaeological exhibition about Troy....
...Visitors roaming Punchdrunk’s new show The Burnt City – a retelling of the fall of Troy – can visit a Dewar’s whisky bar serving “Kykeon” cocktails inspired by a Greek drink mentioned in Homeric texts....
...Gold rose 1.3 per cent to $1,893 a troy ounce....
...Speaking at the White House on Thursday, Biden said there was a “very high risk” of a Russian invasion....
...Gold neared $1,900 per troy ounce, rising 1.5 per cent....
...On Thursday, the White House explicitly excluded Russian oil and gas companies from a number of new sanctions announced against Moscow....
...Yanukovich asks for some Coke Zero to mix with his white Châteauneuf-du-Pape. I notice Jeeves wince and he obliges with a distinctly stiff expression....
...Sissinghurst called and Troy Scott Smith has returned. Back for a second stint as head gardener at the world-famous garden where he started his career 30 years earlier....
...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....
...When the long-serving JPMorgan Chase chief executive decided against a run for the White House in 2020, one turn-off might have been the two-term limit....
...Troy, which had perished in a glow of such terrible splendour that it never ceased to blaze in the imaginings of the Greeks, served as a scene of hero-cults even into the Christian era....
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