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Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen: Here are the following closes for gold and silver today: Gold:  $1148.30 down $5.00 (comex closing time) Silver: $15.56 down 4  cents (comex closing time) In the access market 5:15 pm Gold $1148.28 Silver: $1...

  The 'Great Stretch' Last week the Greek government celebrated its return to the bond market, selling 3 billion euros in five-year bonds at a yield of 4.95 percent. Reportedly there was great demand for the issue, which should be no surprise...

Date: 27-08-2013 Source: SPIEGEL Chancellor Angela Merkel has been forced to concede that Greece will require additional aid — an admission that has dented her reputation as a crisis manager ahead of the election. But she still hasn’t revealed...

By Paul Carrel and Jussi Rosendahl BERLIN/HELSINKI (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel ruled out a debt writedown for Greece on Saturday, and a European Central Bank policymaker threatened to cut off funding to Greek banks if Athens does not...