From the price of gold to increasing speculation about what taxes could be raised in the Autumn budget, the past week has seen a number of milestones in the financial world.
In Britain the week marked three years since Liz Truss’s disastrous “mini budget” which saw bond yields fly, and across the pond a landmark investment into AI was announced by the world’s biggest company.
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