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Hedge funds and other large institutional buyers – the driving force behind much of the rise in the spot price of gold in the past decade – appear to be abandoning gold if the outflows from gold ETFs are any indication. Gold ETF holdings are now at …

"Gold has come down because everybody piled in on it for 12 years in a row and (I'm) sure some people used leverage and it was due for a very severe correction," said Axel Merk, chief investment officer at Merk Investments, which has around $450 …

With two years left in her second term, food prices are being pumped higher in part by the devaluation of the peso. Polls show her … Locked out of the global bond market since its 2002 default, Argentina wants a more competitive peso to strengthen …

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“The competitive devaluation model, which has been adopted by other central banks globally — Canada can now be added to the list.” The loonie depreciated 0.9% to $1.0750 per U.S. dollar at 1:57 p.m. in Toronto. It reached $1.0762, the weakest since …

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Rather, they must be integrated into a coherent capabilities system that transforms them into differentiated products and services—and that ultimately gives a firm its right to win in the marketplace. However, despite having learned much about the …