Gold recovers, finds support at $315 levels
The precious metal gold recovered in early Europe from testing support at $315.00 during Asian trading and dealers said they expected bullion business to remain quiet until the start of the US Trading session.

Kazakh woos investors despite flawed oil policy
As Kazakhstan's energy sector came under scrutiny on Wednesday at its biggest annual trade fair, a paradox emerged - speaker after speaker criticised important aspects of policy, yet interest and investment still flows in.

Now, tobacco companies lure smokers from Third World
While smoking rates in some industrialised countries are decreasing at about 1% a year, those in developing countries they are increasing at around 3% per year.


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