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Serbia, the best-run and biggest, deserves to gain candidate status in December, especially if it can show more flexibility over its former province of Kosovo.

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Some publishers fear that one of the big technology companies now distributing e-books will compete for the industry's best-known authors, by offering advances in a bid to gain market share.

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The very best brand names, Placek asserts, can help a company gain a near-monopoly.

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If you share our conviction that liquidity and transparency should remain of utmost importance for any investment, the best method to gain exposure to depressed gold prices is to buy the stocks of publicly traded gold-mining companies, which typically offer more upside potential than the underlying commodity or ETFs designed to mimic the spot price.

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Germany's DAX 30 index gained 2.4% for its best day in five months, while France's CAC-40 jumped 3.6% for its biggest gain since last August.

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