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Topic: commodities

Stacked 400-ounce gold bars
Markets
Wednesday, 8/19, 10:20 PM

Gold jumps to its highest since early June as the Treasury doubles bond buybacks

  • Gold leapt roughly $100 in under an hour on Wednesday, trading above $4,460 an ounce for the first time since early June, after the US Treasury said it would double the size of its long-dated bond buyback operations to at least $4 billion each.
  • The 30-year Treasury yield fell to 5.19%, a two-week low, easing the pressure that had weighed on the metal.
A portion of fish and chips
Economy 41 d

Why Fish and Chips Keeps Getting More Expensive

  • A portion of fish and chips, Britain's classic cheap supper, now costs well over £11 in many places, up sharply over the past few years.
  • The humble dish turns out to be exposed to an unusual number of global shocks at once: fishing quotas, sanctions, a war's effect on cooking oil, bad potato harvests and high energy bills.

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