published Aug 15th 2016, 1:13 pm, by Luzi Ann Javier (Bloomberg) — Gold trading has gone quiet again as investors await the next clue on the timing of any U.S. interest-rate increase by the Federal Reserve. The precious metal’s 30-day historical volatility has slumped to the lowest in a year.

published Oct 20th 2016, 1:47 pm, by Justin Fox (Bloomberg View) — In 1999, the unemployment rate in the U.S. was just 4.2 percent, compared with 8.6 percent in Germany and 11.3 percent in France. The labor force participation rate (the percentage of the working-age population either with jobs or