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The bank expects prices to be underpinned by exceptionally strong demand from investors and central banks, forecasting average quarterly demand of more than 700 metric tons and projecting gold could climb toward $6,600 an ounce in 2027.
New car registrations, a metric that reflects sales of new passenger cars, were 6.55% lower in January than in the same month last year, according to data released over the weekend by French automobile-industry body PFA.
This internal structure is known as the quantum metric.
From Science Daily
In the new study, the research team led by UNIGE, together with Carmine Ortix, associate professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Salerno, detected the quantum metric at the boundary between two oxide materials, strontium titanate and lanthanum aluminate.
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The team also found that the quantum metric is a fundamental characteristic of many materials, rather than a rare exception as previously believed.
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