Best Buy reportedly had 270,000 units in its inventory.
Gold set a new record Monday as investors fled stocks, weakening currencies and U.S. Treasuries for the safety of gold and gold-related assets.
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Gold rallied almost 2 percent to a record near $1,900 an ounce on Monday as a sputtering global economy boosted expectations for further monetary easing, raising bullion's appeal as a hedge against inflation.
The price of gold shot up to a record high Monday as traders abandoned other safe haven investments -- the ones governments can control -- for the world's oldest and most independent form of wealth.
Miners helped Britain's bruised FTSE 100 stage a recovery on Monday, with Randgold Resources boosted by bullish gold prices and broker comment, and Anglo American up as it considered a bid for Australia's Macarthur Coal.
Gold prices rallied toward $1,900 an ounce on Monday as concerns over the global economic outlook fueled interest in the precious metal as a haven from risk and due to talk that weak U.S. growth could spark a further round of monetary easing.
Harvey Norman has ordered its franchise to pull thousands of webOS-powered HP TouchPads off the shelves.
Harvey Norman, exclusive retailer of HP TouchPad in Australia, has decided to pull the device from shelves, expediting the liquidation of HP's tablet computer from the market barely weeks after its launch.
With a $99 price tag, Hewlett-Packard's WebOS TouchPad joined Dell Streak 5 in the tablet graveyard after just seven weeks on shelves, and given the weak sales of many other players, it looks like similar deaths are bound to follow.
Selected Best Buy stores will sell the $99 HP TouchPad tablet starting Sunday
BBY added that its match policy doesn’t apply if customers find a tablet discounted by another retailer.
Retailers have started selling HP's TouchPad at drastically lower prices.
From dawn in Tokyo to dusk in New York on Friday, fear lifted gold to a record high -- its fifth such day in a row -- and boosted silver, too, as the world's investors succumbed to the accumulated effect of one emerging danger after another.
Gold and silver prices rose dramatically early Friday as investors fled crumbling Asian and European stock markets, but later in the session some of those early gains disappeared as investors began buying heavily discounted tech stocks.
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Shares of silver mining companies charged out of the gate Friday, posting huge gains as the price of white metal also rose.
Gold vaulted 1.4 percent in the first two hours of trading Friday amid mounting concerns the U.S. economy is heading into another recession and as some European lenders faced a short-term funding crunch, highlighting the risk of a banking crisis.
Gold charged to a record high early Friday in electronic trading as a host of bad economic news from around the world drove investors away from stocks for the safety of the yellow metal.
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Gold prices rallied more than 2 percent to a record highs on Friday as investors sought refuge from a second day of hefty losses on the stock markets, hurt by deepening concerns over slowing economic growth and the outlook for euro zone banks.
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