An interesting article in the telegraph that uk company pension defecit is now £549 billion pounds, add to that an article tonight that annuities are at a 15 year low with pensioners barely able to get

Interest rates at almost zero % for the last 7 years have not driven growth, nor has the billions in QE. They did save the banks, but now the lower they go and the longer they stay the more they risk

Summer initially saw a rise to $1370 in gold prices and then a small fall to $1310 in late August whilst people were on holiday, returning from holidays volumes were light. Of course the Fed has also been