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            <title><![CDATA[Gold Buys Least Beer at Oktoberfest Since 2009]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[An ounce of gold will fetch 92.8 liters of beer at the German festival]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2018 07:17:57 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iran's Gold Demand Set for Spurt Before Trump Sanctions Bite]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2018 10:10:37 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Ire Stokes Gold Trade in Iran as Rial Hits Record Low]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2018 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Bars of gold bullion sit underneath a 12.5 kilogram gold bar at the Valcambi SA precious metal refinery in Balerna, Switzerland, on Tuesday, April 24, 2018. Gold&apos;s haven qualities have come back in focus this year as President Donald Trump’s administration picks a series of trade fights with friends and foes, and investors fret about equity market wobbles that started on Wall Street and echoed around the world. Photographer: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Egypt’s King Farouk Patek Watch Sets Middle East Auction Record]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:07:29 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Lot 55 HUGUETTE CALAND (Lebanese, b. 1931) Good Luck Acrylic, coloured and silver pens on loose canvas 40⅞ x 84⅔ in. (104 x 215 cm.) Painted in 2009 Estimate $80,000 - 120,000</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Christie's CEO Says Art Market `Strong' Ahead of Dubai Sales]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:48:55 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>&apos;Salvator Mundi&apos; by Leonardo da Vinci. Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty Images North America</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Libyan Oil Is Back, at Least for Now, Vying With Saudis and Iraq]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 09:11:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iran in Talks With Russia to Import Wheat to Ship as Flour]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2018 10:17:28 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Evening sunlight illuminates wheat kernels during the summer wheat harvest on a farm operated by ASB Management Co., in Novoalexandrovsk, Russia.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dubai Trader Gets First Mideast License in Cryptocurrencies]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2018 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gold Jewelry Demand Seen at 20-Year Low in United Arab Emirates]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2018 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>An employee holds one of thirty two, one kilogram bars of gold, worth a total of approximately one million British pounds sit on a table at the Sharps Pixley Ltd. showroom in this arranged photograph in London, U.K., on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. Amid the wild Bitcoin ride that’s wiped more than 40 percent off the cryptocurrency&apos;s price in a month, a pattern may be emerging: sellers are switching out of digital gold and into the real thing.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kuwait Signs LNG Import Deal With Shell, Has Gas Need]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2017 06:15:27 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A Kuwaiti tanker, Al-Guran, loads natural gas at the Kuwait Petroleum Co. Mina Al-Ahmadi Refinery&apos;s South Pier in Kuwait City, Kuwait on March 11, 2003.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia Sees Higher Oil Revenue as OPEC Cuts Boost Prices]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Nayla Razzouk]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:10:35 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Metals Trader Liberty House Targets Middle East in Building Boom]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:28:26 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Saudi, U.A.E. VAT Tax May Squeeze Gold Jewelry Demand Even More]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2017 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi’s Biggest Solar Project on Track to Start in 2019]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2017 15:05:17 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Egypt Promises Transparency to Suppliers After Wheat Trade Row]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:03:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hit to Libya’s Oil Output Takes Some Heat Off OPEC]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2017 09:04:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Saudi Crude Exports Fall Just as Domestic Stockpiles Dwindle]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2017 07:12:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iran's Gold Jewelry Demand Rises to 4-Year High, Bucks Oil Slump]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2017 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi's Al Qudra Agrees to Buy Al Rayan, Will List Shares]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2017 14:17:16 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Saudi Oil Exports Drop to 2015 Low as Kingdom Sticks to Cuts]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:06:43 GMT</pubDate>
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