In Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger, the titular villain bemoans that his chosen area of art has been overlooked. “Man has achieved miracles in every human endeavour… except crime!”. In order to rectify this, and prove himself an artist, he plans to rob Fort Knox (spoiler alert: it does not work). But in the film version, Goldfinger’s

Sharp rises in the price of precious metals and other commodities present an enormous opportunity to investors, the mining sector and countries reliant on the exportation of natural resources. Fearful of higher inflation – a result of the vast stimulus packages being injected into almost all major economies – speculators great and small are increasingly

Displaying the sort of attitude of which a certain Bond villain would be proud, the government of Kyrgyzstan has a fight on its hands after attempting to nationalise (and control) the largest gold mine in the country. Centerra Gold, a Canadian conglomerate, is enacting arbitration against President Sadyr Japarov’s government directly in an attempt to

“Know your customer” is an oft-repeated refrain in business and is of course an extremely sensible one. However, of equal importance is “know your market”. The sea in which any ship of business sails will not only lead the unwary into uncharted waters, but what seems a placid and understood surface often hides dangerous currents,