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A salesperson at a jewelry store shows gold ornaments to a buyer, unseen, in Bangalore, India, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008. The yellow metal rose to a record high for the second day in a row as it gained US $5.11 Wednesday and reached US $290 per ten grams. Gold traded in London at $887.85 per troy ounce, up from $$874.20 late Tuesday. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)hg3
(photo: AP Photo / Aijaz Rahi)
China overtakes India as top gold consumer
The Hindu
China overtook India as the world’s largest consumer market for gold with a jump of 32 per cent last year, the World Gold Council said on Tuesday. | Chinese consumers bought 1,066 tonnes of gold products in 2013, while their Indian counterparts bought 975 tonnes, up 13 per cent from 2012, the ...
Consumer Reports: Still many questions e-cigarettes
Hartford Courant
Maybe a friend or family member uses one. Or maybe you're using one yourself to try to kick a tobacco habit. | Whatever your experience is with electronic cigarettes, it seems that the battery-powered devices, which deliver a form of nicotine and mim...
Learn why consumers `unfriend` businesses on social media
Zeenews
A fascinating research into online social media business reveals how virtual business relationships might be sustained and promoted in a better way. ...
Boll & Branch offers organic cotton sheets directly to consumers
The Los Angeles Times
Early last year, Scott Tannen and his wife, Missy Tannen, were shopping for sheets when they experienced firsthand the confusion that comes in trying to find quality sheets. | “I just wanted a beautiful, soft set of white sheets,” Missy T...
SA consumers ‘likely to be in slightly better position’ in 2014
Business Day
SOUTH African consumers were likely to be in a slightly better position in 2014, despite inflationary pressures and interest rate hikes, researchers from the Unisa Bureau of Market Research (BMR) said on Thursday. | At the release of the MBD consumer...
Consumer Price Index Ticks Up 0.1% In January
U~T San Diego
The cost of living in the U.S. rose at a slower pace in January, giving the Federal Reserve scope to maintain stimulus to allow the world’s largest economy to strengthen further. | The consumer price index increased 0.1 percent after a 0.2 percent ...
Consumers can get LPG cylinders without Aadhaar account: Govt
Deccan Chronicle
New Delhi: Subsidised LPG cylinders can be purchased without having an Aadhaar account, the government informed the Lok Sabha on Friday. | A clarification on delinking Aadhaar account from disbursal of subsidised LPG cylinders would be issued within ...
Japan's consumer center issues warning over smartphones overheating
Newstrack India
Tweet | Tokyo, Feb. 21 (ANI): Japan's National Consumer Affairs Center has reportedly issued a warning about smartphones overheating after an yearly surge in smartphone-caused burn accidents was witnessed. | The center said that there were 75 reports...
Consumers less vulnerable, index shows
Business Day
Related articles | A CONSUMER financial vulnerability index by MBD Credit Solutions’ consumer shows improvement, increasing from 45.9 in the third quarter to 52.0 in the last quarter of 2013. | This indicates that consumers are less exposed compari...
Consumers can get LPG cylinders without Aadhaar account: Govt
The Hindu
Subsidised LPG cylinders can be purchased without having an Aadhaar account, the Government informed the Lok Sabha today. | A clarification on delinking Aadhaar account from disbursal of subsidised LPG cylinders would be issued within a week, Petrole...



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