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Interpreting the Gold Boom and Bust: Still a Safe Haven?

One thing is clear. There's nothing like a gold standard when it comes to analyzing the way the precious metal prices have behaved in the past three months. Gold's decade-long bull run peaked in the last three months when the prices went up by around 30 percent.

India's Commodity Exchanges: Will Politics Hinder Growth?

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India's commodity exchanges are poised for steady growth over the next few years after annual turnover more than quintupled to $2.5 trillion since futures trading started in 2003, but political hurdles hinder more dramatic development.
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Gold Price Down, Silver Falls but Recovers

Gold prices fell 2.7 percent Monday, its fourth day in a row to decline, as investors raised cash to cover losses and a touch of optimism about Europe drew investors back into the stock market.
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Silver Prices Climb 14% in Volatile Midday Trading

Silver prices, which have lost more than a quarter of their value in the last four trading sessions, clawed back Monday into positive territory as bargain hunters took advantage of the white metal's recent discount.
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Wall Street Climbs on Eurozone Hopes

Stocks rose in a choppy session on Monday on optimism Eurozone officials would develop plans to slash Greece's debts and recapitalize European banks in the latest effort to tackle the region's debt woes.
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Wall Street Mixed on Weak Housing Data, Europe Woes

Stocks were mixed in volatile trading on Monday as Eurozone officials played down reports of plans to slash Greece's debts and recapitalize European banks to cope with the fallout and after a decline in U.S. home sales.
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Gold to Remain as a Hedge, Despite Recent Falls - Analyst

Gold will continue to serve as a hedge against risk on a longer-term basis despite recent falls, given the lack of other safe-haven assets to protect investors against global economic uncertainty, a manager at Stenham Asset Management said.
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Investors Assess New UBS CEO, Hope For Fast Revamp

UBS investors welcomed the Swiss bank's choice of caretaker chief executive, Sergio Ermotti, on Monday after Oswald Gruebel resigned in the wake of a $2.3 billion rogue trading scandal and cleared the way for a major overhaul of the investment bank.
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LightSquared to Issue an Open Letter Defending the LTE Network Launch

LightSquared will be running an open letter from its CEO Sanjiv Ahuja in major US newspapers on Sept. 26, explaining its position over the controversy surrounding its LTE (long-term evolution) network, specifically concerns about its interference with GPS (global positioning system).
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G-20: Globalization's Two-Edged Sword

Even as G-20 leaders grapple with the global financial crisis, a larger, over-arching concern is limiting GDP growth in the U.S., and, to a lesser degree, in other developed economies and, by extension, decreasing the capacity of the these nations to counteract the crisis: inadequate wage growth.

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