Why Barclays PLC is getting out of gold

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Why would any banker want to sell a state-of-the-art gold vault that could hold £57bn of the precious metal? Barclays' (LSE: BARC) latest disposal isn't one for romantics, but it might just be part of a transformation set to turn around its share price.

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