NPA This Week in Pawn

According to a recent study by Citibank's Citi Retail Services, Consumers prefer to spend more on jewelry when buying it in person as opposed to buying online.

Kitco
The only headwinds strong enough to hold gold back from the $1,700 an ounce level is a higher U.S. dollar and weaker equity volatility, 

The New Yorker
The instruments of trade and finance are inventions, in the same way that creations of art and discoveries of science are inventions—products of the human imagination.

WCBS
A lawsuit is accusing the Suffolk County Police Department of seizing items from pawn shops and never giving them back.

Cnet
A data breach to Capital One servers in March exposed the personal information of nearly 106 million of the bank's customers and applicants. The hack, which included US and Canadian customers of the banking and credit card company, comes a week after the settlement reached between Equifax and the Federal Trade Commissionconcerning a hack in 2017 that affected 147 million customers.

Palm Beach Post
Bookwise, a used bookstore, offers books of every kind and remains in place as a thriving business even though many stores of its type have closed their doors in recent years.

WPRI.com
A Woonsocket man will spend at least the next two decades behind bars for his role in a violent armed robbery in Providence.

WLBT
Joshua Garcia pleaded guilty, mid-trial, to attempted escape as a violent habitual offender, according to Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney John K. Bramlett, Jr. Garcia is also currently charged with the homicide of three employees of a Jackson pawnshop that happened in December 2016.