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Gold prices notched fresh 1-year highs; here’s why

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Gold prices notched fresh 1-year highs; here’s why

COMEX Gold prices saw another weekly gain of over 2% and notched a fresh one-year high of $2,049.2 per troy ounce, owing to a weaker greenback and plunging US benchmark treasury yields. A recent set of economic data from the US have pointed to a slowing economy and improved the conviction that the Fed may … Read more

Labour bureau to conduct five nationwide surveys in five languages to check job data inaccuracies

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Labour bureau to conduct five nationwide surveys in five languages to check job data inaccuracies

In a first for India, the labour bureau under the ministry of labour and employment will conduct five nationwide surveys in five main regional languages along with English and Hindi, aimed at significantly reducing data inaccuracies in the past on the back of translation of responses in regional languages for data computation. These household surveys, … Read more