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The Gold Price recovered an overnight dip below $1500 per ounce in London on Tuesday, trading less than 1% shy of yesterday's new all-time high at $1518 as European stock markets rose together with major government bonds and energy prices.

President Barack Obama and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell - taking a break from discussing the nation's long term deficits - issued dueling statements on U.S. energy policy over the past several days, referring to changes in rules that could affect oil production, tax subsidies and research into alternative energy.

Shares of Select Comfort Corp. (NASDAQ: SCSS) touched a new 2-year high of $17.50 on Thursday, as its first quarter earnings and revenue exceeded Street view.

Silver Prices extended their Dollar gains to 7.7% for this week alone, also reaching new multi-decade and all-time highs vs. the world's other major currencies.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: TradeStation Group, Biogen Idec, Select Comfort, Datalink, Entegris, Apple, and Qualcomm. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: ZST Digital Networks, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Sina, Lam Research, and Vodafone Group.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Select Comfort, Plexus, F5 Networks, Datalink, TradeStation Group, Qualcomm, and Apple. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Lam Research, Sina, Gilead Sciences, Amgen, and Cheesecake Factory.

Gold Bullion jumped above $1500 per ounce in London on Wednesday, setting new Dollar and Sterling highs but falling sharply against the Euro as the single currency rose to its highest level since 2009.

Gold prices soared above $1,500 an ounce on Wednesday, setting a new all-time record, even as the precious metal sustained a superb run banking on its value as the preferred safe haven investment in uncertain times.

For over 70 years the United States has been widely considered AAA top-notch benchmark sovereign risk. Standard & Poor (S&P)'s decision to impose a negative outlook now puts this status under question for the first time, reflecting the unsustainable debt trajectory and risks of policy response gridlock.

A repeat of a corporate tax holiday that found little success in stimulating the economy in 2005 is still a long-shot to jump-start a stagnant U.S. economy, says a University of Illinois expert in corporate and international taxation.

The CURRENT SURGE in silver prices worldwide might seem dramatic, but it's more measured - so far, at least - than the true silver bubble that went Bang! in Jan. 1980. Even so, you might as well call this a record price.

The Communist government of Cuba said it will permit people to buy and sell their property for the first time since Fidel Castro took power of the island in 1959, as part of a raft of economic reforms.

Standard and Poor’s Rating Service cut its outlook on the US Government’s long-term debt to negative this morning and the implications are quite resounding.

This past Thursday, Moody's Investors Service downgraded China's property sector from stable to negative.

The FA Cup enters its semifinal stage with a Manchester derby on Saturday as City and United clash at Wembley vying for a place in the final.

The FA Cup enters its semifinal stage with a Manchester derby on Saturday as City and United clash at Wembley vying for a place in the final.

Several advocacy groups have petitioned the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to suspend reactor licensing until a full review of the Fukushima disaster in Japan is complete.

The interbank silver market [in Asia] is dysfunctional says one Hong Kong dealer's note. Liquidity is getting worse while the price action is getting more exaggerated as a result.

The Australian share market pared early losses to close around 0.2 per cent higher, as investors snapped up bank stocks and other cyclicals with attractive dividend yields.

Price of gold will exceed $1600 a troy ounce before year-end on strong growth in investment demand, according to the precious metals research consultancy firm GFMS.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing a high-powered technology law firm in a suit that may cost him 50 percent of the billion-dollar company.