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By Jon Nadler |
May 14, 2012
After suffering a roughly 4% loss last week, gold prices headed even lower overnight and this morning as further erosion in crude oil and the euro and further advances in the US dollar made life more difficult for the few remaining bulls in the market.
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By Adrian Ash |
May 14, 2012
The price of gold and gold futures dropped yet again Monday morning, recording the seventh drop in nine trading days in May so far as industrial commodities, global stock markets and the euro currency all sank.
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By Brian Sylvester |
April 20, 2012
Graphite is the "Next Big Thing" for resource investors, but as in any sector, due diligence is a prerequisite for success. The graphite market specialist with Industrial Minerals in London lists which companies to watch in this emerging industry.
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By Adrian Ash |
April 19, 2012
Compulsive hoarding is an affliction, an illness. It disables the sufferer and those around them, presenting a health hazard as stuff piles up and the home turns into a trash can. But just because you hoard money or gold bullion, doesn't mean you're sick or wrong.
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By Jon Nadler |
April 9, 2012
Friday’s US jobs data managed to yield a lift in precious metals values this morning but the advance was itself significantly below expectations and it most certainly did not come at the expense of a notable cratering in the US dollar.
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By Mark O'Byrne |
May 4, 2011
Gold is mixed while silver is down some 1.5% again today. Weakness is being attributed to profit taking, momentum-driven traders and rumors regarding selling of gold and silver by George Soros's fund.
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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 Staff Writer |
February 4, 2011
China and Japan came to own their US Treasuries because both countries produced goods that America's wanted to buy. The Fed came to its hoard by simply turning on the 'equivalent of an electronic printing press.'
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By Jack Lifton |
August 24, 2010
The real supply opportunity in the non-Chinese rare earth mining sector, is for those deposits that have above-average proportions of heavy rare earths, to be brought into production as quickly as possible.
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By Frank Holmes |
June 22, 2010
Gold is now legit -- no longer can it be dismissed as the asset of choice for fringe types with a cellar full of canned goods and a stash of bullion buried in the backyard.