As I wrote previously, rumors of a forced sale of gold by the Cypriot government, along with calls by Goldman Sachs and other banks to short the yellow metal, and a weak GDP print from China, seem to have exacerbated the declines.

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Year-round tracking of the wealthiest of greater China, in print and online, now takes up the lion's (dragon's?) share of Flannery's working hours.

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In China, the last flash PMI print was 49.3 from HSBC and will struggle to come in at 50, a positive for the market if it does.

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Booming economies in China and India, a Federal Reserve that loves to print money and a Congress that believes in big subsidies for alternative fuel have combined to do wonders for all kinds of energy stocks the past five years.

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Despite her exploits in print, Hung now finds herself at the vanguard of the new media revolution in China.

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He is the face in China of mining giant RAG and heating systems firm Viessman, appearing on billboards and print ads.

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