News Source: The Guardian
| about 2 hours ago
In the run-up to the meeting at St Andrew's on Friday and Saturday, India's finance minister rubbed it in by boasting about the size of India's foreign exchange reserves (it has just made a huge purchase of gold from the International Monetary Fund)
News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 3 hours ago
Switzerland where Italian is spoken and roughly one-third of the world’s gold is refined into bars and ingots, business is booming. Every day, bangles, bracelets and necklaces arrive in plastic bags from souks in the Middle East, from pawn shops
News Source: The Hindu
| about 8 hours ago
World’s leading economic powers, including India, were on Saturday urged to consider imposing a tax on financial transactions by banks in order to build a global fund to bail out failed banks in future. The so-called Tobin tax, named after the