Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.
Learn moreSomewhere, on the shores of Switzerland’s Lake Léman — not far from the famous Geneva jet d’eau — is a high-security warehouse facility so impregnable and so discreet it could easily be used to store large volumes of gold bullion.
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| Market | Last price | Today's change |
52 week high |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTSE 100 Index: FSI As of Jun 19 2013 09:39 |
6,346 | -28.58 | -0.5% | 6,876 |
| FTSEurofirst 300 Index: FSI As of Jun 19 2013 09:40 |
1,180 | -3.31 | -0.3% | 1,258 |
| S&P 500 INDEX: WCB As of Jun 18 2013 05:00 |
1,652 | +12.77 | +0.8% | 1,687 |
| Euro/US Dollar FX Spot Rate As of Jun 19 2013 09:19 |
1.34 | 0.00 | +0.1% | 1.37 |
| ICE Brent Crude Oil Front Month: IEU As of Jun 19 2013 09:40 |
106.20 | +0.18 | +0.2% | 119.17 |
| COMEX GOLD 1 FUTURES CHAIN Front Mon: CMX As of Jun 19 2013 10:24 |
1,367 | +0.70 | +0.1% | 1,795 |
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