Gone are the days when luxury hotels could assume guests would be satisfied with a smile from the receptionist and some insider advice from a long-serving concierge. As major brands battle for business, they're promoting increasingly niche services and …

All wheel drive is the becoming table stakes for the luxury market. What used to be something important only in terms of off-road vehicles is now thoroughly mainstream. Audis have been famously driven by all four wheels for decades, and Mercedes-Benz …

EUGENE, OR – August 8, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — IDX, Inc. welcomes Paula Pelton of Prudential California Realty to the growing group of real estate professionals revolutionizing the way potential buyers search for homes online. As a member of …

Suzanne Drace will be joining the Real Living team in their Rancho Santa Fe Real Estate Center. Licensed and practicing since 2001, Drace started working in a boutique luxury real estate office that sold ranches, estates, and vineyards. In 2005, Drace …

The gold trade has become very interesting over the past few months. Both the yen and the euro have recently rallied against the dollar, as the market believes that aggressive accommodation in Europe and Japan has begun to wane. But despite the dollar …

Avocet, based in London, plans to restructure it finances after cutting gold reserves at the Inata mine in the African nation by half earlier this year. The company will have about 100,000 ounces of gold hedged by the end of the year at $938 an ounce …

In part three of this series, Elemental Forces On The Price Of Gold, I began my discussion on the forces moving the price of gold. I discussed supply and demand factors, as well as the function of gold as a hedge against outlier economic dislocations …

Gold has been under pressure as the U.S. Federal Reserve appears set to soon reduce monetary stimulus, or quantitative easing, with policy makers citing improvement in the economy as reason for the move. Asset purchases by the central bank have been …

(Kitco News) – Hecla Mining Co. (NYSE: HL) expects the amount of silver and gold it produces to jump in the second half of the year as output at the Lucky Friday silver mine in Idaho returns to normal and as the company continues to ramp up output at a …