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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Priya Bharadia

‘By the end of the day we’re just knackered’: business booms for UK’s south Asian jewellers as gold prices soar

Gold items on display in a jewellery shop on the Golden Mile in Leicester.
A jewellery shop on the Golden Mile in Leicester. More people are seeking alternative investments such as gold. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

“With everything that’s going on in the economy and Donald Trump banging his chest against the world, we’re finding there’s no trust in the banks because we don’t know what’s going to happen,” Sandeep Kanda says.

Kanda is the owner of Sunny Jewellers, situated along a stretch of Leicester known as the Golden Mile, and is a beneficiary of consumers seeking alternative investments amid the uncertainty.

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