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Gold shows up in places most people never think about. It’s in the jewelry case, but it’s also in dental crowns, industrial connectors, and electronics components that get thrown away every day. The properties that make gold valuable for investment are the same properties that make it useful across a wide range of industries, and that usefulness is exactly why gold scrap holds real value no matter where it comes from. Here are a few facts about gold that go beyond the usual trivia, and why they matter if your business handles gold in any form. Gold is Nearly Indestructible…
Our healthcare system is designed to diagnose the presence or absence of disease, one organ at a time. That means people have no baseline against which to make broader lifestyle decisions.
Even if Toshiba doubles its capacity, analysts say it has a ways to go to catch up with Western Digital and Seagate
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Prop Trading Relative Drawdown A prop trader can make money, give back the profit, and fail an evaluation without ever falling far below the starting account balance. The reason is a rule many traders overlook: relative drawdown. Most traders begin a prop firm evaluation with two numbers in mind: the profit target and the maximum loss allowed. If they start with a $100,000 account and need to earn 10%, they know the target is $110,000. If the firm also advertises a 5% drawdown limit, they may assume they can keep trading as long as the account stays…
Debt among older Americans is rising, both in terms of the number of older households carrying debt and the amount borrowed.
U.S. Jobs Report – A weak U.S. jobs report would once have been clearly bullish for bonds. Friday showed why that relationship may be becoming far less reliable. September’s employment report initially delivered what rate-sensitive markets were looking for: weaker-than-expected nonfarm payrolls, a tick up in the unemployment, slower wage growth and downward revisions to the prior two months. It was like a perfect storm. Treasury yields fell sharply and other markets followed its lead. Then the trade reversed. Treasury yields moved higher, the dollar recovered, while gold and Bitcoin more than gave back their initial gains.…
Law and lobbying firms in Washington, D.C., are telling companies to prepare for a new level of scrutiny, since most modern midterm elections result in some loss of congressional control for the party that holds the White House.
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Humanoid robots have the potential to revolutionize life as we know it — but the U.S. does not have a supply chain that can produce key parts.