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By Ron Hera |
April 16, 2012
The history of the US dollar is closely linked to US involvement in a series of wars. The loss of value in the dollar caused by excessive expansion of the money supply, together with rising demand for raw materials, has led to permanently higher global commodity prices.
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By Mark O'Byrne |
April 11, 2011
Silver's nearly 3% surge in trading in Asia may indicate that the long expected short squeeze may be underway. Bullion banks with large concentrated short positions may be being forced to buy back their short positions - propelling silver higher.
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By Ilya Spivak |
March 23, 2011
Opposing forces are battling for control over gold price action as sentiment looks for direction while the recent bout of US dollar weakness put silver prices on a parallel track with risk appetite trends.
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By Ilya Spivak |
March 22, 2011
Gold seems to be breaking away from the safe-haven role it had occupied over recent weeks, with prices carving out a formidable positive correlation with the MSCI World Stock Index (a proxy for underlying risk appetite) over the past week.
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By Mark O'Byrne |
March 11, 2011
The massive earthquake and tsunami that has rocked Japan today is being digested by markets and the economic ramifications and uncertainty is leading to risk aversion.
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By Adrian Ash |
March 2, 2011
Prices for dollar investors to buy gold crept higher to reach a new all-time record Wednesday lunchtime in London, as crude oil rose further above $100 per barrel and world stock markets fell for the eighth time in nine sessions.
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By Mark O'Byrne |
March 2, 2011
Gold's all time record nominal high yesterday was barely reported in most of the mainstream business and financial press today - slightly more online but there was little or no coverage in print.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
October 18, 2010
There is a gold rush underway in Iraq, with major implications for the rest of us. The success of the recent oil auctions in Iraq is creating a windfall for American oil services companies.
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By Frank Holmes |
February 3, 2010
One more measure of China's growing global clout - so much Saudi oil is flowing China's way that it may soon replace the U.S. as the leading market for the world's largest oil exporter.
