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  • The European Central Bank stepped in Monday and bought bullions of euros worth of their bonds.

    Dow Jones Industrial Average Closes Down More Than 630 Points, Sixth-Worst Point Loss Ever 2011

  • Some people may ask for diamonds, gold bullions or truckloads of cash.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Some people may ask for diamonds, gold bullions or truckloads of cash.

    An Excellent Interview with Michio Kaku... 2009

  • But we use stocks and bullions, and those are the basics of umami production in Western cooking.

    Laura Weiss: Umami Comes to a Pizzeria Near You 2008

  • At a time when the stock markets have been witnessing a declining trend and real estate becoming prohibitvely costly, investments in bullions have started to show an upward trend and this is so atleast in Chennai, the Capital of Tamilnadu.

    GOLD GLITTERS 2008

  • The dealer added that investors were disappointed with bullions 'position and softer world markets.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The raised work, and that which introduces the use of purls and bullions, is at once more complicated, and perhaps hardly as pleasing as the simpler flat work.

    Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Grace Christie

  • The passages, the roofs of the galleries from place to place and from chamber to chamber, were ceiled and covered with white silk, fluted and embowed with silken hanging of divers colors and braided cloths, "which showed like bullions of fine burnished gold."

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

  • Interiorly the palace halls and chambers were superbly decorated, white silk forming the ceilings of the passages and galleries, from which depended silken hangings of various colors and braided cloths, "which showed like bullions of fine braided gold."

    Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877

  • ** Secondly, it supports a wide range of instruments, including physical delivery bullions, coins and jewellery, gold-linked legal tender, gold-based savings accounts, plain vanilla and synthetic ETFs, derivatives and producers-linked equities and funds.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Constantin Gurdgiev 2011

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