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By Adrian Ash |
May 16, 2013
Opposing the rise in retail gold demand, says the World Gold Council, "[was] a well-documented decline in gold ETF holdings...which outweighed the [global] growth in bar and coin demand."
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By Adrian Ash |
March 15, 2013
Gold ticked higher but silver prices stalled Friday morning, as a rise in Asian stock markets failed to carry over into European or pre-opening trade in U.S. equities.
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By Ben Traynor |
December 11, 2012
The wholesale gold price rose to $1,712 an ounce Tuesday morning in London, a few dollars above where they started the week, while stocks edged higher and US Treasury bonds fell ahead of tomorrow's Federal Reserve policy decision.
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By Ben Traynor |
October 30, 2012
The spot market gold price traded just below $1,715 an ounce during Tuesday morning's London session, little changed from last week's close, while European stock markets recovered their losses from a day earlier and UK and German government bond prices fell.
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By JT Long |
September 21, 2012
Got a rare earth deposit? Great. Got a mine? Even better. But do you have a processing plant? No? That could be a problem. The market doesn't understand how complex and expensive solid-phase rare earth extraction can be.
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By Adrian Ash |
August 2, 2012
Wholesale prices for gold investment bars struggled just above $1,600 per ounce in London on Thursday, after dipping below that level for the first time in a week as the US Federal Reserve left monetary policy unchanged yesterday.
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By Stephan Bogner |
February 29, 2012
China is the largest copper consumer in the world demanding 40% of the world`s copper supply. The copper price rose as much as 17% this year – despite copper stocks in Shanghai warehouses increasing steadily for quite some time and last week hitting the highest level in nearly a decade....
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By Jeb Handwerger |
August 4, 2011
Articles in the press have highlighted the possibility that we may be witnessing a bubble in the rare earths. They cite a preponderance of short sellers hovering as vultures in the skies over the sector. We take a long-range view.
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By George Mack |
June 10, 2011
Although lithium is not in short supply now, electric and hybrid vehicles could soak up new production of the versatile light metal. The economist for Chile-based signumBOX, elaborates on small exploration plays that could move up.
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By Jeb Handwerger |
May 18, 2011
Never has there been a divergence between the price of the rare earth ores and the developing rare earth miners as there is now. The current commodity correction has caused the high flying rare earth sector to plunge to critical support levels.