April 12, 2012 (Vietnamica) – Dollar prices to buy gold hovered at just under $1660 an ounce during most of Wednesday morning’s London trading – up around 1.5% for the week so far – as European stock markets recovered some ground following yesterday’s losses, commodities were broadly flat and government bond prices fell.
April 2, 2012 (Vietnamica) — Spot market gold prices jumped to $1669 per ounce ahead of Monday’s US trading, broadly in line with where they ended last week, though they remained below the Asian session peak touched briefly following the release of positive Chinese manufacturing data.
March 22, 2012 (Vietnamica) — Wholesale bullion fell hard in early London trade on Thursday, with the gold price dipping to nearly its lowest level in 2012 as world stock markets and commodity prices also fell. India’s jewelry sector remained on strike in protest at last week’s doubling of import duties, and “with physical demand not at full strength and waning investor enthusiasm, the potential for further downside in remains exposed,” says today’s note from Standard Bank.
Mar 20, 2012 (Vietnamica) — Vietnam’s Textile and Garment Association Vitas reported that first quarter exports by its members (major textile and garment makers) dropped by 30% from that of the same period last year.
March 20, 2012 (Vietnamica) — Bain & Company, a leading adviser to the private equity (PE) industry and its stakeholders, has released Global Private Equity Report 2012. The following is ‘The Southeast Asia opportunity’ section extracted from the Report.
March 15, 2012 (Vietnamica) — 1848 in Europe was the year that wasn’t. In the spring and summer of that year, bourgeois intellectuals and working-class radicals staged upheavals from France to the Balkans, shaking ancient regimes and vowing to create new liberal democratic orders. The Arab Spring has periodically been compared to the stirrings of 1848. But with the exception of the toppling of the Orleans monarchy in France, the 1848 revolutions ultimately failed. Dynastic governments reasserted themselves. They did so for a reason that has troubling implications for the Middle East: Conservative regimes in mid-19th century Europe had...
