The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reportedly looking to probe Monday’s dramatic fall in the gold price after Commissioner Bart Chilton told Bloomberg that the drop in gold and silver raised “concerns”. Preliminary investigations show that volumes in both gold and silver were at their 2nd highest levels...

Asia came to currency early, and it soon learnt to treat coinage as a weapon of war. Indeed, the coins minted in China during the warring states era, almost 500 years before Christ, were made in the shape of knives. This may explain why the west tends to be...

Australia to continue as commercial property investment hotspot in 2013: Jones Lang LaSalle Nearly half (45%) all real estate investment into the Asia Pacific region is flowing into Australian commercial property markets. This is double the next biggest markets of Japan (19% of investment) and China (18), according to...