Alison DeRuiter of Phoenix showed up at party recently and went home with $542.
A group of security workers stand at attention as two black SUVs, each driven by armed guards, pull up to the artists' entrance to the Kodak Theatre. Inside are the Academy Awards' most famous guests.
A thousand dollars will buy you a laptop, a Caribbean cruise or, these days, an ounce of gold.
The U.S. dollar was mostly lower against other major currencies in early European trading Thursday. Gold rose.
One of the biggest stars of this year's Academy Awards was born on Chicago's northwest side, brought into the world by Martin Vega and prepped for his big close-up by Eladio Gonzalez.
Venezuela's mining minister says the state is not ruling out the participation of private companies in its gold and diamond mines.
The U.S. dollar was mixed against other major currencies in European trading Monday morning. Gold rose.
The U.S. dollar was higher against most other major currencies in European trading Tuesday. Gold also rose.
President Hugo Chavez is awarding a valuable gold mining concession to a joint venture between a Russian-financed company and the Venezuelan government, in an apparent bid to secure new sources of state income as oil prices fall.
The U.S. dollar was higher against other major currencies in European trading Tuesday morning. Gold rose.
A gold miner stands waist-deep in a polluted pond, dumps a capful of mercury into a bucket of ore and mixes it in with his bare hands.
The U.S. dollar was mostly up against other major currencies in European trading Monday. Gold fell.
The U.S. dollar was mostly higher against other major currencies in European trading Monday morning. Gold fell.
Olympic gold medalists claimed the top three spots in both the male and female categories in the final vote tally for the United States Sports Academy’s Athlete of the Year, presented by NBCSports.com and USAToday.com.
Investors who have forsaken shaky financial markets for the safety of gold must feel a little bit like prospectors.
Usain Bolt wasn’t the only man in Beijing last summer to cover 100 meters under his own power faster than anyone ever had before. The other man who made locomotive history isn’t nearly as well remembered, but he should be. Without him, Michael Phelps doesn’t beat Mark Spitz, doesn’t win eight gold medals and isn’t the greatest swimmer who ever lived.
Can you lose a lot of weight without becoming a ‘saggy, baggy elephant’? How well can exercise fight the flab? And is it possible to lose fat only in desired areas but not in others? Smart Fitness answers your queries.
The U.S. dollar was mixed against other major currencies in European trading Wednesday morning. Gold fell.
The U.S. dollar was mostly lower against other major currencies in European trading Wednesday morning. Gold rose.
A severe pullback in spending for everything from houses in Connecticut to jewelry in Europe and steel in China has reached as far as the New Mexico mining town of Silver City, N.M.
The U.S. dollar was mostly higher against other major currencies in European trading Tuesday afternoon. Gold rose.
The U.S. dollar was lower against other major currencies in European trading Thursday morning. Gold rose.
The real story!In a complaint filed with the U.S.
The biggest bankruptcy in history might have been avoided if Wall Street had been prevented from practicing one of its darkest arts. As Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc struggled to survive last year, as many as 32.8 million shares in the company were sold and not delivered to buy …
Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the proposal was to create something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, that was a hard-traded, weighted basket. Persaud, chairman of consultants Intel …
In the frenetic political preparations ahead of the forthcoming G20 summit, there has been much talk of international co-operation to tackle the financial crisis. But if you talk to insiders in the policy debate, you quickly realise there are two rival conversations going on.
Let's see if you can wrap your arms around this. The Federal Reserve is going to spend $1 trillion to purchase Treasury bonds and securities. Where is it coming from? They created the money on receiving banks computer screens. Financial shenanigans? Does this make sense?
A town in Japan has come up with a novel way of beating the country's crippling recession: by extracting gold from its sewage.
However, in my opinion there are four systemic issues involved behind this crisis. (i) The entire financial risk analysis was mainly based on an unrealistic assumption that property prices will not fall drastically, rather it would continue to rise.
There is another aspect of the deep dive that most Asian economies took in the last quarter of 2008 that is interesting. Over the years there has evolved an arrangement: Japan exports machinery and high-tech stuff to China; S-E Asia ships intermediates to China.
"There is an increase in the number of wise, reasonable, well-read, well-intentioned people who are buying some gold and putting it aside,"
Snake eats green tree frog outside government house in Northern Territory, Australia.
Lyssa King doesn't get surprised much at the things people are willing to sell - rings, necklaces, coins, teeth, pendants, watches, silverware. Sure, times are tough. But teeth?
A man who, very sensibly, paid nearly $250,000 (around £180,000) to a psychic for a golden statue to ward off negativity is now suing the psychic, after he says the statue never turned up.
There's a new home party-giver who wants a seat on your couch. As Americans struggle to make ends meet, home gold-buying parties are becoming the latest fad across the South and Midwest.
As I listen to the Wall Street pundits today, their latest line is about "the inevitable rally" that they claim is coming. One guy went so far as to pronounce on TV that "the market is severely oversold".
In these uncertain times, people are groping around for viable places to put the investment money they still have available. There are always viable opportunities, in every economic situation. You just have to know where to look.
A plan to dump mine tailings into a lake, taking advantage of a Bush administration regulatory change, is before the Supreme Court. Environmentalists say it could gut the Clean Water Act.
..."three villagers from the valley of Intag in northwestern Ecuador are suing Copper Mesa Mining Corporation (TSX:CUX) and the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The rush by retail investors into bullion coins is creating shortages as mints across the world struggle to meet the surge in demand, dealers and mint officials say.The scarcity is lifting coin premiums to as much as 5 per cent above the spot gold price, a level reached briefly a …
Gold Demand Is A Non – Confidence Vote in the Obama Stimulus Plan
shoirt-selling, Many so-called financial experts have been spouting off of late, declaring that Gold has reached it's top.
It's been no secret that the U.S. Government and the Fed have used the U.S. Dollar as a manipulative tool since World War II and the ascendency of the U.S. Dollar as the world's reserve currency. Massive quantities of totally unbacked "fiat" U.S.
After a brief rally into 2009, the markets have ground lower. But they are now at key technical levels. A breakdown from here and things are going to get even nastier – with uncomfortable parallels to the 1929 crash.
Zimbabwe's Vice-President Joyce Mujuru has been accused of trying to fund a multi-million dollar gold deal in defiance of international sanctions.
According to an internal Microsoft document reviewed by the Seattle P-I, about more than half of the Xbox 360 users who use the online service are actually gold members the rest have free silver accounts.
It is good that the price of yellow metal has touched an all time high passing on a cheerful expectation to the investors.But who are the buyers?Are there people who are willing to buy at such a high price?The bubble is already there and it may burst out any time.I am afraid,we m …