A total of $2.3 billion poured into precious metal funds.
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The precious metal is up 28 percent year to date.
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The precious metal settled more than 1% higher at $1,418.20.
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The precious metal is up 1.67 percent week to date.
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The precious metal is up more than 5% in August.
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On Wednesday, the precious metal was trading at about $1,289.
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It's tough to be a certain precious metal these days.
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The precious metal is still 4 percent from that price.
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ET. The precious metal is down 21 percent this week.
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Nanoparticles of that precious metal can burn away cancer cells.
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The precious metal has posted four consecutive weeks of gains.
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The precious metal was gaining for the third straight session.
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A weak greenback makes the precious metal cheaper for non-U.
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The materials group, which includes precious metal miners, jumped 2.1 percent.
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The precious metal was trading around $1,330 in afternoon trading Monday.
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The precious metal hovered near its one-month high on Tuesday.
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The precious metal hit its highest level since 2013 on Monday.
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The precious metal was off 0.1 percent at $1,317.78 an ounce.
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The precious metal is often seen as a safe-haven trade.
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The price of the precious metal rose above $1,450 on Monday.
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How about American groups like precious metal and stuff like that?
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The precious metal was still up 8.5% so far this month.
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The precious metal is heading for a 2 percent monthly decline.
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Gilding is a topical application of precious metal to an object.
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In addition to precious metal, another noteworthy commodity category is petroleum.
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The precious metal was off 0.4 percent at $1,314.43 an ounce.
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Investors have been piling into the precious metal as a safe haven.
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A scientist in the Kupol laboratory creates samples of the precious metal.
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The precious metal lost 0.37 percent for its second-straight weekly decline.
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Aussie gold stocks, which track the precious metal, also declined in response.
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The precious metal is up more than 0.83% so far this week.
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The precious metal is unlikely to follow gold's upward trajectory, analysts said.
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The precious metal briefly hit $1,083, its highest in nearly a month.
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The precious metal was down about 0.1 percent at $1,1.8.71 an ounce.
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The precious metal slipped below a key level of $2560,21 on Friday.
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The precious metal also recorded its best trading day since December 2014.
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The precious metal slipped below a key level of $21,2560 on Friday.
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Stretches of water could yield millions of ounces of the precious metal.
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Year-on-year, the import of the precious metal more than trebled.
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The precious metal traded at $1,234.27 at 3:13 p.m. HK/SIN.
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He added that the precious metal could soon reach $1.63,650 to $1,700.
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The dollar's loss was gold's gain, with the precious metal rising on Friday.
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The precious metal has traditionally been seen as a safe haven for investors.
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The rise coinciding with a three-day winning streak for the precious metal.
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The precious metal has surged 16% since May as the worsening Sino-U.
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Gold miners also surged as the precious metal jumped on the Fed news.
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While silver is often considered a precious metal, it also has industrial uses.
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You could have lived in that world with Mourinho candelabras of precious metal.
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Gains in safe-haven assets, including gold, sent precious metal miners Randgold RRS.
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Accepting coins was problematic because of the uncertainty regarding their precious metal content.
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The precious metal was, however, on track for its third straight weekly decline.
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Although made from precious metal, each ring retails for much less than $100.
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Several forty-niners glimpsed precious metal as they dragged themselves over the mountains.
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But if the floor does hold, the precious metal could head to $1,350.
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The dollar index gained 0.4% versus major currencies, further pressuring the precious metal.
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Overnight, the precious metal jumped to its highest level in about seven years.
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Silver knives are harmlessly blunt and never sharpened: It wastes the precious metal.
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So far, precious metal, such as gold, may not have a big bounce.
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The precious metal is coming off biggest quarterly loss in more than three years.
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The precious metal had climbed to $1,366.06 last week, its highest since August 2016.
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The precious metal slipped to a one-week low on Monday, down to $1.331.
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The spot price for the precious metal was $215.01,20.78 an ounce during Asian trade.
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As demand rises, investors have pushed the price of the precious metal higher too.
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One has to remember that China is a big consumer of the precious metal.
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Gold miners also weighed as the precious metal eased on a strengthening U.S. dollar.
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His father, a chemical engineer, is a consultant on steel and precious metal recovery.
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The precious metal futures gained 22015 percent for the year, their best since 22017.
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The steadily less-precious metal is down more than 5 percent for the year.
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ARGENTINA RESTRUCTURING Precious metal investors were still on a quest to buy safer assets.
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It was this week's best performing precious metal, climbing 2.4 percent from Friday's close.
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You may want to think twice before you go mining for precious metal ETFs.
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The slightly less precious metal is down more than 5 percent for the year.
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Lower global shares and a tad weaker dollar index also supported the precious metal.
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Signs of recovery in the U.S. dollar adds to woes for the precious metal.
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That said, bitcoin is far from reaching the same status as the precious metal.
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Rising U.S. recession fears boosted precious metal prices, as apetite for riskier assets faded.
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The precious metal was marginally lower at $1,257.27 an ounce, extending Friday's 0.8 percent loss.
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The precious metal had hit its highest level since June 19 at $1,279.06 on Wednesday.
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The precious metal is in the midst of its longest losing streak since November 2015.
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The precious metal has become increasingly attractive in a world full of negative yielding debt.
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EDT (1742 GMT), the precious metal was trading 0.3 percent higher at $1,562.39 per ounce.
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Only a few hundred tons are produced annually, making it an major precious metal commodity.
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With bond yields falling around the globe, investors have been flocking to the precious metal.
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The precious metal was last down 0.02% on the spot market at $1,413.40 per ounce.
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The precious metal has been trading between $1,000 and $1,400 per ounce in recent years.
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The precious metal is usually considered a safe-haven investment at times of market volatility.
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The precious metal was last down 0.03% on the spot market at $1,413.20 per ounce.
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The precious metal was marginally lower at $1,257.41 an ounce, extending Friday's 0.8 percent loss.
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On Tuesday, the precious metal jumped to its highest since Trump was elected U.S. president.
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The big question: Could a volatility surge have a positive effect on the precious metal?
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The materials group, which also includes precious metal miners and fertilizer companies, added 1 percent.
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Investors often seek refuge in the precious metal during periods of geopolitical uncertainty and turmoil.
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The miners of the precious metal were also pressured by an ease in gold prices.
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The precious metal fetched $1,280.40 an ounce to be close to a six-month peak.
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Prices have plunged 45% since February as investors started dumping the precious metal for cash.
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The precious metal backed the U.S. dollar for decades, marking a peg for global currencies.
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There's a golden opportunity in the precious metal right now, and it's not going away.
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The South Asian nation also imports fertilisers, precious metal, coal and steel among other goods.
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The recent slump in precious metal was indeed affected by risk aversion and firmed dollars.
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The base and precious metal refineries will have capacity to toll refine another 600,000 ounces.
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Wisconsin's new law comes as neighboring Minnesota debates allowing precious metal mining in the state.
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The precious metal stood at $1,406.2 per ounce, near Friday's six-year high of $1,411.2.
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The uptick in the gold price helped precious metal miners Randgold Resources and Fresnillo push higher.
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Its value derived not from precious metal but from the credibility of the regime issuing it.
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The precious metal is hovering around a six-year peak and bond prices continue to fall.
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The precious metal had hit a 10-month high on Thursday, but later erased the gains.
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The precious metal has outperformed other major asset classes this year, rising 12 percent in 2016.
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The precious metal recorded gains of around 8 percent in the first quarter on renewed demand.
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The precious metal hit its highest level since June 2264.90 at $23,281.39 earlier in the session.
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Spot gold prices rebounded, rising over 1% as market participants fled stocks for the precious metal.
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But the precious metal climbed 1.7 percent in January-March, posting its third straight quarterly gain.
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Dry the pad of a finger, and use it to dab up any precious metal tidbits.
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The precious metal has dropped as another safe haven asset, the U.S. dollar, found new life.
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The precious metal also posted its fifth-straight weekly loss, its longest losing streak since December.
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The precious metal inched up 0.1 percent to $1,339.86 an ounce after losing 0.6 percent overnight.
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Gold stocks gained almost 3% as prices for the precious metal rose in safe haven buying.
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The precious metal still sat at an almost seven-year high, just below $1600 per ounce.
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You can choose the precious-metal type and carat size, then add an optional personal engraving.
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On the spot market, the precious metal was changing hands at $1,523.14 per ounce, up 0.5%.
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On the spot market, the precious metal was changing hands at $1,520.16 per ounce, up 0.33%.
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Marie Boltenstern is among the first designers to create directly printed 23-D precious metal jewelry.
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Exploration companies owning base metal deposits with precious metal by-products are Silver Wheaton's preferred investment.
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On the spot market, the precious metal was changing hands at $1,523.14 per ounce, up 0.53%.
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Among the market opportunities, Faber said he believed precious metal stocks were still cheap, despite recent gains.
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A weaker US dollar also helps the precious metal, which is hovering around a six-year high.
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The precious metal hit a high of $13,21 on Thursday, a level last seen on June 20.23.
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The precious metal hit a high of $21.2,20.6 on Thursday, a level last seen on June 0.73.
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Buying remained subdued in India, the second biggest buyer of the precious metal, as buyers delayed purchases.
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And legendary investor Stanley Druckenmiller also recommended the precious metal to Sohn Investment Conference attendees last Wednesday.
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"The precious metal is on fire and it is the real winner of Brexit situation," Aslam said.
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But if history is any guide, this milestone may be a bearish signal for the precious metal.
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The precious metal shed some early gains on Monday but last traded flat at $1,496.70 per ounce.
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Some investors expect the precious metal to pass the $1,300 psychological resistance level in the near-term.
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Meanwhile, gold stocks gained 1.1 percent with a weaker U.S. dollar making the precious metal more attractive. .
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The precious metal has been in a long sump but prices are now hitting eight-month highs.
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This world includes severed limbs in precious metal, tunics with stitched smiles and the occasional jagged tooth.
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Schlossberg draws parallels between the volatile digital currency and the precious metal widely considered a safe haven.
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The precious metal has surged in the face of investors who are in a flight to safety.
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In other precious metal markets, palladium hit its strongest level since September 2014 at $844.60 on Monday.
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The precious metal shed some early gains on Monday but last traded flat at $1,496.37 per ounce.
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Gold is a relatively rare precious metal and 190,000 tons of it has been mined on earth.
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Investors see the precious metal as another haven when equities, some currencies, or other assets feel risky.
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South Africa is the world's top platinum producer and has the largest reserves of the precious metal.
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Gold stocks also rose, as the precious metal held on to gains made earlier in the week.
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The precious metal has been in a years-long downward trend, holding below $1,400 since September 2013.
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The precious metal stood at $1,405.41 per ounce, not far from Friday's six-year high of $1,103.
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Indeed, the precious metal has had a good year like many other financial assets, gaining about 11%.
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Shares in precious metal miner Fresnillo, which is headquartered in Mexico City, fell 2.2 percent on Thursday.
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Gold is on a tear, and some market watchers see further upside ahead for the precious metal.
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This brought the precious metal decisively above the $1,300 level where it topped out several times before.
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The provision is so strict that it was effectively a moratorium on precious metal mining in Wisconsin.
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The precious metal stood at $1,404.79 per ounce, not far from Friday's six-year high of $1,410.78.
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Funds invested in the precious metal took in $1 billion, the largest inflows since July 2016, Lipper said.
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Precious metal miners outperformed as investors sought refuge in safe-haven assets such as gold following Trump's announcement.
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The shine came off gold in May as the precious metal logged its first monthly loss of 2016.
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With it's late-day moves, the precious metal rose to settle at a 3-1/2 month high.
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As for gold, Gartman said he is very bullish for the precious metal in euro and yen terms.
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Lyft's rewards program is similar in many ways to Uber's, right down to the precious metal-themed tiers.
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Gold futures were headed for their best annual performance since 2010, when the precious metal jumped nearly 30%.
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U.S. dollar weakness helped push gold and silver prices higher, boosting precious metal firms Randgold Resources and Fresnillo.
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Shares of U.S.-listed gold miners gained as prices of the precious metal rose on safe-haven bets.
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Rio Tinto declined 0.5 percent and precious metal miners Randgold and Fresnillo fell 1.5 and 0.4 percent respectively.
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Investors are piling into the precious metal due to global uncertainty about monetary policy and negative interest rates.
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The Lousiana-themed fried chicken chain has launched its own version of the finger food/precious metal mashup.
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Mid-cap precious metal miner Centamin fell 3.3 percent after second-quarter gold production fell, disappointing investor expectations.
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Gold miners were among the biggest drags, as the precious metal fell with other perceived safe-haven assets.
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The precious metal is also on track for its first weekly loss in three weeks, down 20.7 percent.
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Aussie gold stocks, which track the precious metal, also declined in response, with the sub-index falling 0.8%.
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For the week, the precious metal is down 5.1% - the most since November 2016 - including Thursday's 4.5% slide.
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The precious metal is up nearly 220% this year, and has surged 23% over the last 12 months.
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And one undeniable fact: The glitter of the precious metal has lured men and women throughout the ages.
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Why are Americans so obsessed with the precious metal, both as a store of value and an investment?
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Barrick boosted its dividend by 40%, benefiting from higher gold output and improved prices for the precious metal.
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Any easing of trade tensions could take away some safe haven demand for the precious metal, Meger added.
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Palladium was the best performing precious metal last year, rising 20 percent, its biggest annual gain in six years.
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A risk-on undertone meant meagre gains for gold, with the precious metal changing hands at $1,2015 per ounce.
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Gold prices touched a one-week high as the weaker greenback and global geopolitical uncertainties boosted the precious metal.
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The precious metal had benefited from investor aversion towards risky assets that has hit global stocks and crude oil.
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However, the precious metal fell 1.65 percent for the week, its worst week since the week ending March 24.
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In the metals market, silver is a bit unique: It's a precious metal that also has some industrial uses.
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The move helped precious metal miners Fresnillo and Randgold Resources rally, closing up around 7.7 and 4.4 percent respectively.
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Prices for the precious metal are near a three-weak low this week but up 10 percent this year.
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The materials group, which includes miners and fertilizer companies, added 0.2 percent as base and precious metal prices rose.
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And, if the precious metal can indeed hold up and head higher, Iuorio wasn't opposed to trading it, either.
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Gold was trading down again in Thursday's session with the precious metal tracking lows not seen since late June.
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The idea is to increase the efficiency of the market for base and precious metal raw materials using blockchain.
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The precious metal was trading near a two-year high last week, closing at $1,360.80 an ounce on Thursday.
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S. trade war and concerns of slowing global economic growth, while a strong dollar weighed on the precious metal.
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Those sources place the value of its leases, credit lines and consignment lending of precious metal at $8 billion.
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Or follow Warren Buffett's advice, repeated in various forms over the years, to steer clear of the precious metal?
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The rally in gold prices has also been supported by a reduction in the availability of the precious metal.
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Since that time the precious metal has rallied, and the net long position has increased to 100,8003 futures contracts.
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Since that time the precious metal has rallied, and the net long position has increased to 100,000 futures contracts.
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Gold just hit its highest level since election night, and some see more upside ahead for the precious metal.
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However, the elevated trade tensions boosted the appeal of gold, driving a rally in miners of the precious metal.
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Even when holders of the precious metal want to take part in the scheme they have run into hurdles.
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While that kept prices of the precious metal under pressure, geopolitical risk pulled bullion prices back from earlier losses.
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And investors who've bought gold mining stocks have done even better than those who just own the precious metal.
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The dollar's weakness gave gold a leg up, with the precious metal gaining 1.1 percent to $1,354.30 an ounce.
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Gold has stumbled during the past month, but that hasn't made me any less bullish on the precious metal.
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The price of the precious metal has risen nearly 17% to less than $1,500 in the past four months.
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Gold's value typically moves inversely to the dollar as the precious metal is internationally priced in the U.S. currency.
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But in 1971, President Richard Nixon suspended the ability for the dollar to be converted into the precious metal.
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The precious metal was 1% higher on the spot market at $1,590.21 per ounce, having earlier blasted through $1,600.
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Spot gold hit $210,20.31 an ounce, its highest since April 20.292, but the precious metal later pared some gains.
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The precious metal was 1.30% higher on the spot market at $1,594.33 per ounce, having earlier blasted through $1,600.
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According to analysts at Credit Suisse, the precious metal is going to follow an upward trajectory throughout this year.
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For example, the Belvedere Museum in 200 had its own large exhibition devoted to the precious metal, simply titled Gold.
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Doing so in a precious metal, the material of heirlooms and presentation vases, gives the effort the respect it's due.
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Gold's losing streak continued on Tuesday as the precious metal tumbled to its lowest level in more than five weeks.
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Spot gold slid 0.4 percent to $1,258.15 an ounce as the precious metal lost steam following Wednesday's 2.5 percent surge.
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And with the precious metal trading just about at that price midday Friday, the next move could be anyone's guess.
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Adrian Ash, head of research at investment gold service BullionVault, explained what advantages the precious metal has over other assets.
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If other companies follow suit, the additional financial burden on precious metal investors could curb liquidity and roil markets further.
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The precious metal has regained some technical momentum after closing on Wednesday above its 200-day moving average of $1,267.
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This led to a rise in the price of gold helping push precious metal miners Fresnillo and Randgold Resources higher.
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"There was definitely some kind of precious metal based on the readings of the instruments at the site," Cluck said.
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The precious metal is now on track for its sixth straight month of losses, it's longest losing streak since 1989.
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Individual investors are selling the precious metal to make profit as gold priced in yen is climbing, the trader added.
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The precious metal is up 14 percent this year, while the is down 5.7 percent for the same time period.
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Gold rose on the weaker dollar and as tensions between the United States and Iran also supported the precious metal.
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Gold mining stocks Rangold Resources and Fresnillo are up more than 20 percent as demand for the precious metal surged.
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After giving up some gains on Friday, the precious metal was higher on Monday, rising 0.18% to $0.513,499.52 per ounce.
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The EPA in May revived the controversial proposal, which envisions a precious metal mine near Bristol Bay in southwest Alaska.
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The precious metal shed 232.523 percent last week in its sixth straight weekly decline and worst weekly performance since December.
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The precious metal rallied to end the week as a sell-off wiped billions of dollars from the equity market.
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India is the world's second-biggest consumer of the precious metal, although most of the retail purchases are made offline.
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Darda added gold could be in danger, as the higher rates could spark a bear market for the precious metal.
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A risk-on undertone meant gold posted only meagre gains with the precious metal changing hands at $1,74 per ounce.
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Still, the precious metal remained on track for its second straight weekly gain and weak Chinese factory data lent support.
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The precious metal struck a six-year high of 1,438.63 on Tuesday, up a whopping 11.2% over the past month.
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Gold is a big winner with investors flocking to the precious metal as the market swings violently on coronavirus fears.
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"My preferred form of precious metal post-financial collapse, that is, besides high-speed lead," wrote one prepper on SurvivalistBoards.com.
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Courtesy of eBay In third, a Michael Jordan 1997 Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems card sold on eBay for $350,100.
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The Japanese art of "kintsugi" takes a radically different approach, using precious metal to bring the broken piece back together.
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Bucking the trend, gold miners advanced 4.3% as bullion prices rose after investors flocked to the safe-haven precious metal.
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Gold prices rose on Monday as the precious metal is seen as another safe-haven asset in times of uncertainties.
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Gold producers have been looking to consolidate to boost shrinking gold reserves and as prices for the precious metal rise.
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Though gold mining has since boomed, officials acknowledge that most of the precious metal is smuggled out of the country.
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Iridium, a precious metal belonging to the platinum group of elements, is more abundant in meteorites than in terrestrial rocks.
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Meanwhile, Randgold Resources and Fresnillo were both near the bottom of Europe's benchmarks, despite precious metal prices posting gains during trade.
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The precious metal is now up 23 percent on the year, outpacing , which has risen 18 percent in the same period.
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As a result, precious metal firms Fresnillo and Randgold Resources were Europe's best performers, closing up 7 and 9 percent respectively.
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The precious metal is up about 2359.16% so far this week, on track for its biggest weekly gain since April 2016.
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"The precious metal looks poised to undergo a bearish correction amidst growing downside risks in the near term," the note added.
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The precious metal spiked overnight as stock futures tumbled after Donald Trump clinched a surprise victory in the U.S. presidential election.
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Additionally, he added that the precious metal appeals to investors, because it offers better returns in a negative interest rate world.
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The precious metal declined nearly 1% to $1,409, coming back after its rally topped out at six-year highs on Tuesday.
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Spot gold rose 0.8 percent as the decline in the dollar and shares globally rekindled investors' appetite for the precious metal.
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A weaker dollar boosts gold prices by making it cheaper for traders outside the U.S. to buy into the precious metal.
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This proves to be an interestingly controversial issue, which goes to the multifaceted nature of the precious metal as an investment.
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UBS forecasts prices for the precious metal would average $1,400 per ounce next year — better than the $1,250 expected by Citi.
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Meanwhile, gold was lower again this morning, after Friday's drop extended the precious metal price decline to three in a row.
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During times of uncertainty, the precious metal is seen as a safe-haven alternative to stocks and other comparatively risky assets.
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But between stocks and physical gold, Max Wolff of Manhattan Venture Partners said the precious metal should make a better buy.
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The Fed officials' remarks also boosted gold, sending Australian miners of the precious metal to their highest in nearly eight years.
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Other "crisis assets" like gold are top performers, with the precious metal up more than 3 percent after the Fed's announcement.
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The precious metal had been trading near a two-year high, with several prominent investors, including Bill Gross, favoring the commodity.
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"I wanted something in the precious metal, could-be-mined-from-the-earth vein," exclaimed Chlumsky of her Sachin & Babi gown.
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If the Met Gala was its apotheosis, the origin point of the precious metal movement occurred backstage in Milan last fall.
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Gold and platinum miners, however, were under pressure following weaker precious metal prices, with the gold mining index falling 2.72 percent.
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Among his positions in the precious metal, Mr. Soros had an investment in Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold mining company.
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Historically, gold tends to decline in early December, then buyers come in and drive the precious metal to rally until March.
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On the defensive side, Bhansali likes physical assets such as the precious metal tracked by the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD).
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Spot gold advanced to a six-year peak of $1,474.80 an ounce as investors sought the safety of the precious metal.
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Historians say it is also quite likely that government reserves of precious metal were hidden by the wartime president, Mr. López.
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Gold prices held steady, with the safe-haven precious metal hovering just below its more than six-year high of $1,554.56.
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The precious metal edged around 1 percent higher in early Monday trade, hitting $1,338.16 per troy ounce by 13:30 a.m.
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However, there is some disagreement over the extent to which geopolitical factors will continue to be supportive for the precious metal.
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With USD continue to go strong, precious metal dives; gold eased more than 1%, recording a history low since Jan, 2017.
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Through Thursday, the precious metal had declined nearly 2 percent for the week after falling more than 13 percent last week.
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The precious metal is up half a percent this week and set for its longest run of weekly gains since April.
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Antiques Dog collars, whether circlets made of precious metal or spiked leather straps, can yield insights into socioeconomic history and family tragedies.
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Metal prices rose slightly, with a few gold miners such as Gold Road Resources and Beadell Resources rising tracking the precious metal.
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The precious metal gained nearly 1.5 percent for the week, its first three-week win streak since the one ended February 12.
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Meanwhile, gold's fellow precious metal silver has been ticking higher with a sizeable 24 percent gain since the start of the year.
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Anna and I first met at Precious Metal, a small bar in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where she reads tarot on most Friday nights.
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In early August, when the precious metal was trading near $1,400, Trump's chances of victory were at 50 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight.
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Also, just because you don't have half a mine's worth of precious metal around your neck doesn't mean you aren't an athlete.
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The precious metal just posted its worst weekly drop since 2013 as the markets weighed an interest rate hike later this year.
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The main boost to gold prices in 2017 may well come from India, formerly the world's top consumer of the precious metal.
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Nevertheless, the precious metal has surged more than 16 percent in 2016, as investors have sought safety from the volatile stock market.
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The precious metal had risen to a four-month top of $1,344.43 on Monday on the back of the dollar's sharp downturn.
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Gold widened losses on Friday, its fourth straight session of declines, as investors dumped the precious metal for riskier, higher returning assets.
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Gold stocks were also down, as the price of the precious metal slumped 4.5 percent last week, its biggest drop since Nov.
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From a gold-plated chopper to a gilded casket, here are eight crazy ways millionaires and billionaires are showcasing the precious metal.
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In the same sector, Anglo American fell 255 percent and precious metal miners Randgold and Fresnillo both dropped more than 1.5 percent.
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Last Thursday, the precious metal jumped more than 5 percent to a one-year high, completing its best day for seven years.
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The precious metal, considered a safe-haven investment during times of market turmoil, also recorded its best trading day since December 2014.
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The precious metal has already rallied 17 percent year-to-date but the BofA technical analyst said it could surge another $300.
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Here's an edited transcript of the State Street gold guru's views on the precious metal and where it will end the year.
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The company then sells its precious metal materials to two main smelters: LS Nikko, which is based in South Korea; and Alcoa.
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Harmony Gold rose almost 2.2 percent and Anglo American Platinum, the world's top producer of the precious metal, closed 1.15 percent higher.
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In another sign that investors were heading for shelter, precious metal funds saw the 11th week of inflows, bringing in $300 million.
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The precious metal slid 0.1 percent to $1,63 per ounce, after hitting a seven-week low of $1,223 earlier in the session.
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Gold futures rose 1.5 percent to $1,109 an ounce, and the top five gainers of the index were all precious metal miners.
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Stocks in Johannesburg rose 0.3 percent with precious metal miners getting a boost from gold prices scaling a near two-week peak.
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A weakening dollar pushed up the price of gold on Wednesday, but the precious metal was flat on Thursday morning in Asia.
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Futures on the precious metal jumped 1.6 percent during the regular session, bringing their year-to-date gain to above 10 percent.
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Gold imports by the world's biggest consumer of the precious metal after China declined 22 percent in January, the government data showed.
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The precious metal traded mildly lower Monday, holding gains of 12 percent for the year but remaining within a yearlong trading range.
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The precious metal is now the currency of choice for individuals and groups engaging in illicit trade in the South American country.
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Profit-taking later unwound much of the metal's rise, knocking the precious metal back to stand 2300% higher at $2500,22.5 per ounce.
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Gold stocks were on their way to a second weekly decline as improving global risk sentiment lowered prices for the precious metal.
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The call follows bullish comments from Goldman Sachs on Monday, with the firm saying the precious metal has "immunity" to the coronavirus.
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"So this pervasive negativity is one reason why Garner thinks that a bottom in the precious metal might be imminent," he continued.
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Gold just had its worst week in over two months, but one technician says the precious metal is headed for a breakout.
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Microscopic pieces of the precious metal – known as nanoparticles – were encased in a chemical device and used to accelerate other chemical reactions.
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But platinum, used mainly in emissions-reducing catalytic converters for vehicles and in jewelry, has fallen further than its precious metal peers.
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Prices for the precious metal are inversely correlated to monetary policy easing, fell 0.1 percent to a three-week low $1256 per ounce.
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Since the beginning of the year, gold prices are up 5.29 percent and the precious metal hit an 11-week high this week.
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This makes the nickel one of five most valuable coins sold at auction and the most valuable non-precious metal coin ever sold.
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China is the world's largest gold producer and jostles with India for the tag of the biggest consumer of the precious metal globally.
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Newmont sold the precious metal at $36.303,250 per ounce on an average in the quarter, lower than $1,257 per ounce a year earlier.
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"The precious metal has struggled to hold bullish gains as the technical overview remains negative," Singapore-based Phillip Futures said in a note.
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The precious metal had rallied 2.8 percent on Friday after surprisingly weak U.S. jobs data dampened expectations of rate hikes from the Fed.
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As an example, Harvey points out that until recently, frequent requests from Met Store customers for precious metal jewelry had largely gone unserved.
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The 1936 Games have since been mythologised as black American sprinter Jesse Owens burying Nazi Aryan philosophy under a heap of precious metal.
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The precious metal has rallied 9 percent since the vote on June 24 while the U.S. 10-year yield tumbled to historic lows.
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Aluminum slid 11 percent, copper was down 24 percent, nickel dropped 42 percent, and precious-metal-with-industrial-uses platinum fell 26 percent.
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The precious metal is up 20 percent this year so far as expectations the Fed would push ahead with interest rate increases faded.
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A possible temporary export ban on precious metal scrap from Russia and hopes of economic stimulus from China has also helped lift prices.
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The dollar's gains tarnished gold a little, with the precious metal easing to $1,405.45 per ounce from a high above $1,418 on Tuesday.
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A four-year downturn in prices means the precious metal remains far off the peaks of around $20143,900 per ounce hit in 2011.
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Precious metal palladium, used in things like car catalytic converters, topped the $230,323 an ounce mark for the first time on supply concerns.
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The dollar's gains tarnished gold a little, with the precious metal easing to $1,403.57 per ounce from a high above $1,418 on Tuesday.
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Maybe he will get a non-electric candelabra of precious metal with Jose Mourinho's name or likeness on it as a signing bonus?
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The slips among bullion producers came despite the precious metal getting a bump from safe-haven buying after a North Korean missile launch.
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With futures trading at $1,307 per ounce Tuesday, they see the precious metal hitting $1,450 per troy ounce by the end of 2018.
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Environmentalists argue the precious metal mining process threatens the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA), and had asked officials to reject the request.
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The trade war has roiled financial markets and spurred fears of a global economic slowdown, pushing the precious metal up 14% this year.
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The trade war has roiled financial markets and spurred fears of a global economic slowdown, pushing the precious metal up 14% this year.
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The materials group, which includes base and precious metal miners as well as fertilizer companies, lost 0.5 percent overall as gold prices fell.
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The precious metal was down prior to the news that the U.S. economy added 2990.10,000 jobs in October, below the 310,000 jobs expected.
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Spot gold was steady at $1,290.71 an ounce, having relinquished its spot as the most expensive precious metal to palladium early in December.
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The dollar's gains tarnished gold a little, with the precious metal easing to $1,404.40 per ounce from a high above $1,418 on Tuesday.
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Gold miners meanwhile lost ground as the precious metal failed to retain its luster a day after rallying on Yellen's go-slow signal.
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The materials group, which includes base and precious metal miners as well as fertilizer companies, lost 0.1 percent overall as gold prices fell.
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The precious metal fell to as low as $1,270 an ounce before edging back up to $1,274, down 0.4 percent on the day.
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Gold prices rose more than 1%, with the safe-haven precious metal hovering just below its more than six-year high of $1,554.56.
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Amid an overall improvement is risk appetite, gold miners lost their sheen due to the reduced safe-haven demand for the precious metal.
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Aular works 12 hours daily lugging sacks of earth to a small mill that uses toxic mercury to extract flecks of precious metal.
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Maduro's adversaries have called on foreign buyers of Venezuela's precious metal to stop doing business with what they say is an illegitimate regime.
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The moves in autocatalysts platinum and palladium have been particularly pronounced as they have outperformed the precious metal market recently, said OANDA's Erlam.
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UBS expects the precious metal to breach the $1,600 level in six months and said adding gold can provide stability to investor portfolios.
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On Friday, U.S. data showed hedge funds and other speculators had raised net long positions in the precious metal for nine straight weeks.
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Its "digital gold service" allows users to buy and sell the precious metal and even store them digitally in a government certified vault.
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Each style has four precious metal choices (white gold, yellow gold, rose gold, and platinum) and three carat choices (1, 1.5, or 2).
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Gold prices on Thursday settled at their highest level since April 2013, as the precious metal benefited from the global flight to safety.
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Consumer cyclicals and financial firms fell, but a higher spot gold price on the Middle East tensions boosted miners of the precious metal.
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Its total holdings of the precious metal have increased 37% since the start of 2016, and are now worth an estimated $4583 billion.
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The subindex, marked its fourth straight weekly gain, helped by gold stocks as a weak dollar spurred more buying of the precious metal.
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With tensions mounting between the United States and North Korea, investors have been moving into the precious metal and other safe haven trades.
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Cold War fears that the gold could fall into Soviet hands was just one of the reasons the precious metal was stored overseas.
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In the era when bank notes were redeemable in gold, most people believed that money had the intrinsic value of the precious metal.
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Speculators betting gold investors will continue to get burned have made the biggest bet against the precious metal ever in the futures market.
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The precious metal has regained some of the strength it lost over the last year after having a record high quarter in 2016.
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The precious metal, which usually thrives during market uncertainty, hit a two-year high this week and is up about 25 percent in 2016.
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The best-performing precious metal this week is palladium, up 9.2 percent this week and on course for its biggest weekly gain since July.
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You can expect more precious-metal-inspired kicks later this summer, though: Adidas promises this is just the first of the limited-edition series.
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All this ought to be good news for gold, the precious metal that usually gains at times of political uncertainty or rising inflation expectations.
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Jana Partners LLC, which dissolved its stake in SPDR Gold Trust in the second quarter of 2016, also stayed out of the precious metal.
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Gold prices rose on Tuesday, reversing earlier losses after a weaker dollar and falling stock markets spurred safe-haven buying of the precious metal.
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Gold rebounded from two-week lows on Wednesday as the dollar's rally paused and global shares fell, rekindling investors' appetite for the precious metal.
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The precious metal has outshone equity markets and high yield bonds with a gain of nearly 15 percent, to trade at $1215 an ounce.
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The precious metal is up more than 13% this month, on pace for its best monthly performance since February 2016 when gold gained 10.57%.
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Sneddon said gold has established a multiyear base that could provide the platform for a "significant and long-lasting rally" for the precious metal.
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While gold has a historically low correlation to bond yields, that correlation is now "very high", a positive for the precious metal, he said.
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The precious metal has fallen about seven percent so far in November, leaving it on track for its largest monthly fall since June 2013.
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The political uncertainty in the euro zone earlier spurred safe-haven demand for gold, but the precious metal later surrendered gains to trade lower.
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Not so much as a glimmer of gold dust, let alone the tons of precious metal they said an FBI contractor's instruments had detected.
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In 2015, aluminum slid 11 percent, was down 24 percent, nickel dropped 42 percent, and precious-metal-with-industrial-uses platinum fell 26 percent.
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In contrast, precious metal miners appeared to benefit as investors rushed to safe haven assets with Randgold and Fresnillo both trading in positive territory.
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The Central Bank Gold Agreement (CBGA) was originally signed in 1999 to limit gold sales and help stabilise the market for the precious metal.
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Sharp declines in gold and silver prices weighed on precious metal firms Fresnillo and Randgold Resources, which both closed more than 2 percent down.
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Throw in all the usual adjectives because the precious metal is on track for one of its best starts to a year since 1980.
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Consumers are lapping up gold at a time supply is declining, helping underpin a rally in the precious metal, a market participant said Monday.
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Glencore and Rio Tinto both closed sharply lower, while an increase in gold and silver prices boosted precious metal firms Fresnillo and Randgold Resources.
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Once the precious metal with the highest price tag, worth more than $2000,22018 an ounce in 28, platinum has plunged below palladium and gold.
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They want to be sure the diamond or precious metal in the jewelry was not mined by exploited labor and in a sustainable way.
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The trade war has roiled financial markets and spurred fears of a global economic slowdown, pushing the precious metal up nearly 14% this year.
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Gold miners also advanced, with Northern Star Resources seeing its best day since July 22 after reporting record quarterly sales of the precious metal.
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The precious metal also posted its biggest one-day decline since November 2016 on Tuesday, dropping to a level not seen since Dec. 28.
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Investors are also taking profits in the precious metal after its recent rapid rise, which saw it hit a 13-month high last week.
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Going the other way was gold, as the precious metal benefited form the sharp reversal in the dollar to stand at $1,262.11 an ounce.
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Among other precious metal prices, palladium gained 0.5 percent to $1,026.97, not far from last week's peak of $1,038, the highest since February 2001.
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Prices for the precious metal, which are inversely correlated to monetary policy easing, fell 0.1 percent to a three-week low $1256 per ounce.
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Interestingly enough, the precious metal saw a similar fate in 2015, where it rallied more than 8 percent into the first week of February.
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The bulk of the platinum reserves in South Africa, the world's top producer of the precious metal, lie in or near these tribal areas.
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Government agencies should also consider industry suggestions that Switzerland's Precious Metal Control Offices might take on an expanded role in making checks, it added.
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Prices of the precious metal usually have an inverse relationship with interest rates: Higher interest rates make the opportunity cost of holding gold higher.
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Gorgeous aerial shots reveal a blasted and burnished expanse, as if all of the town's precious metal — unlike its crimes — lay nakedly, dazzlingly exposed.
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The precious metal pared losses and climbed back up above the $1,17.833 level, buoyed by a low interest-rate environment and lingering geopolitical tensions.
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Gold stocks rose 13% as virus fears boosted demand for the precious metal, with the country's biggest independent gold miner, Newcrest Mining, gaining 1.3%.
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A weak dollar continued to burnish the value of gold, driving the precious metal 0.5% higher on the spot market to $1,536.54 per ounce.
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The precious metal pared losses and climbed back up above the $1,229 level, buoyed by a low interest-rate environment and lingering geopolitical tensions.
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Signs that central banks in Europe and elsewhere are also turning away from ultra-loose monetary policies have also weighed on the precious metal.
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The precious metal has seen some punishment as a result of the Fed's decision, but as we previously predicted, it was not an extreme one.
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The precious metal is trading nearly 8 percent higher over a 12-month period but is down more than 6 percent since the U.S. elections.
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In 2900 palladium was the stand-out precious metal, climbing 21.5 percent and moving into a record premium over platinum of nearly $8503 an ounce.
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"Heavy technical selling activities have imposed negative pressures on the precious metal for the near term," Benjamin Lu, analyst, Phillip Futures, said in a note.
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The precious metal could slip further if the U.S. Federal Reserve goes ahead with raising interest rates next month as the market expects, analysts say.
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As gold hit the highest level in nearly two years, one technical analyst is certain that major gains are in store for the precious metal.
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As gold continues to rally in 215, one bold trader is betting nearly $215 million that gains for the precious metal will continue through 2017.
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Fresnillo and Randgold Resources soared ahead, closing up 7.6 and 6.8 percent respectively, as precious metal prices rallied on the back of the jobs report.
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The precious metal rallied nearly 3 percent back above $1,245 after a soft jobs number had traders fleeing equities and running toward safe haven assets.
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The precious metal had climbed from Tuesdays levels below $1,280, as political uncertainty in the U.S. led some investors to turn to low-risk assets.
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The precious metal is up more than 3 percent since the start of June, hitting its highest level in more than a year on Friday.
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The Fed's announcement also boosted gold as lower rates depresses the dollar, making it cheaper for investors outside the U.S. to buy the precious metal.
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While the precious metal is up nearly 20 percent since the start of the year, it's down by more than 73 percent over the past.
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Friday morning's weak jobs number jump-started a surge in gold, and one trader thinks that the precious metal is set to push even higher.
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The precious metal reached a peak of $228,20.3 an ounce overnight, less than $062.053 below last month's high, before easing back below $2062.05,20.2 an ounce.
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Sharper appetite for risk helped the more industrial precious metal catch up with its peers, which it lagged in the weeks after the Brexit vote.
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We're not sure, but at least compared to Apple, you won't be losing so much precious metal when the smartwatch itself goes out of date.
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The U.S. dollar turned lower after the statement, falling 21.9 percent against a basket of major currencies, a source of support for the precious metal.
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Although Garner thinks that the precious metal is headed higher, seasonal pressures in the late winter and spring months tend to be bearish for gold.
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Precious metal firms, Randgold Resources and Fresnillo also closed sharply higher, up 7.8 and 10 percent respectively, following a jump in gold and silver prices.
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Each art car is wildly imaginative, playing with color, form, and ideas about speed, gesture, and matter — and is the very definition of precious metal.
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So, when we think of it as a color, we unconsciously relate to the precious metal -- which in turn conjures images of wealth and success.
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Could he actually have known his successor would be a precious metal enthusiast, keen to see them on everything from elevator doors to health insurance?
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The slump in demand for the precious metal also coincided with prices holding within their narrowest range of any quarter in more than a decade.
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Gold futures tumbled Monday, as the precious metal fell to a one-month low in early morning trade before beating a bit of a comeback.
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Precious metal miners Randgold Resources and Fresnillo were among the top gainers, up 1.6 to 2.8 percent, as gold prices hit a one-month high.
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Other precious metal prices rose, with silver up 0.2%at $17.06 per ounce, platinum gaining 1.1% to $904.03 andpalladium up 1.1% to $1,756.02 an ounce.
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This growing gold rush has pushed the price of the precious metal up nearly 0.43 percent since October 2017, to more than $1,500 an ounce.
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Consequently, precious metal miners Randgold Resources, Polymetal International and Fresnillo all posted strong gains of 2 percent or more by the end of the session.
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Prices of the precious metal have surged more than 30% this year — touching their highest level since 2008 — fueled by demand from the automotive industry.
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If you're surprised that wild salmon would be sacrificed for precious metal, remember that one of Trump's few passions is for gold-plated bathroom fixtures.
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Gold, one of the rare outliers in global financial markets in the last few days, saw some profit-taking, with the precious metal down 0.7 percent.
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"I look at buying gold as buying stocks back in March of 303," said Sarhan, noting valuations for the precious metal are stretched to the downside.
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Fans of the precious metal - not shy of a good conspiracy theory - have been deliberating over the move ever since Germany detailed it back in 2013.
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Similar to China, India's gold demand should benefit from rupee weakness against the dollar, boosting the appeal of the precious metal as a store of value.
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Investment-grade coins typically boast the potential to appreciate in value irrespective of what's happening in financial or precious metal markets, SGI explains on its website.
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The precious metal has indeed climbed significantly over the last six months: It's up 22 percent since December, likely because of worries over Brexit, he said.
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This year's silver surge has investors gleefully flocking to the precious metal, but one strategist believes that same enthusiasm could spell trouble for the market rally.
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Tensions in the Middle East also boosted gold's rally, which has lifted the precious metal nearly 5% this week and almost 10% so far this year.
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Gold, a precious metal often seen as a safe haven for investors, has been losing its luster even since those risks and situations began to fade.
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Referencing recent Commitments of Traders reports from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Grisanti said some hedge funds have been making major moves into the precious metal.
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Gold fell Tuesday and at least one expert thinks the precious metal is going to continue to move lower — at least for the next several months.
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The tax exemption also includes the sale of gold by small-scale miners to accredited traders, which then sell the precious metal to the central bank.
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Even though Colvin projects the precious metal should reach $1250 an ounce over the next 30 to 60 days, he is telling investors to be vigilant.
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Spot gold rose to $1,426 an ounce, its highest since July 3 as reinforced expectations for a Fed rate cut boosted the non-yielding precious metal.
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The headpieces range from traditional to avant-garde in appearance, some rendered delicately with precious metal, while others are made with the help of 3D printers.
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Spot gold was a shade higher at $1,285.50 an ounce, after losing 0.5 percent overnight as the precious metal felt the pressure from a stronger dollar.
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Since gold miners have rallied this year on the back of a rebound in the precious metal, it's no surprise that NUGT has done exceptionally well.
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"The precious metal has shown excruciating weakness as the U.S. economy demonstrated a stellar performance in Q2 2018," said Benjamin Lu, commodities analyst at Phillip Futures.
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Mark Matthews from Bank Julius Baer said in a note that at any moment a rally in risk appetite could send the precious metal back down.
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That in turn boosted shares in precious metal miners Randgold and Fresnillo to the top of the FTSE with gains of 4 and 3.8 percent respectively.
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Spot gold rose to $1,426 an ounce, its highest since July 3, as reinforced expectations for a Fed rate cut boosted the non-yielding precious metal.
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"The precious metal has struggled to hold bullish gains as technical overview remains negative for the current term," Singapore-based Phillip Futures said in a note.
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India is a huge importer of the precious metal -- to the tune of billions of dollars a month -- as demand outstrips the country's gold mining industry.
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Precious metal mining has divided Democrats in the state, with members from the mineral-rich region insisting the process can be done safely while creating jobs.
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Gold extended fall from Thursday's one-year peak of $1,262.90 per ounce as safe-haven buying in the precious metal in recent weeks was rolled back.
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Thailand is Asia's third-largest gold market after India and China, and has imported over $80 billion worth of the precious metal in the past decade.
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But now some are turning to gold, whose safe-haven status has driven up prices for the precious metal nearly 15 percent so far in 2016.
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Other precious metal prices rose, with silver up 0.5%at $17.10 per ounce, platinum gaining 1.8% to $909.59 andpalladium was up 1.8% at $1,769.44 an ounce.
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Precious metal palladium, used in things like car catalytic converters, dipped after it topped the $230,323 an ounce mark for the first time on supply concerns.
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Each share is based on the price of one-tenth of an ounce of gold, minus the fund's expenses for things like storing the precious metal.
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He also noted that the precious metal has outperformed the S&P 500 Index, an observation he says hasn't been getting enough attention on the street.
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The source said jewelers were paid anywhere between 20 and 65 percent above the going rate by buyers snapping up the precious metal with old notes.
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The precious metal jumped 1.4% on Wednesday after disappointing hiring by U.S. private employers unnerved investors already concerned about slowing growth in the world's largest economy.
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Roy Sebag, who is the CEO of GoldMoney, a platform to let people buy and trade the precious metal, is also a notable investor in cryptocurrencies.
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Stocks rose as global markets steadied, but platinum producers stumbled as the spot price of the precious metal fell over 1.4 percent below $900 an ounce.
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Capping the index's gains was a 0.7 percent fall in mining and other resource stocks, as base and precious metal prices fell on a stronger U.S. dollar.
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Among the few gainers were shares in precious metal miner Randgold, which was lifted 1.7 percent as investors sought refuge in safe haven assets such as gold.
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While a softer dollar on Tuesday gave gold a boost, the recent recovery in risk sentiment pushed the precious metal to its biggest monthly decline since November.
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When the town of Greifswald, Germany, announced it was overrun by werewolves in the mid-17th century, citizens fought back with musket balls made of precious metal.
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Expectations that the Fed will cut rates had helped to lift gold prices, but the precious metal was lower on Friday, losing 0.05% to $1,502.43 per ounce.
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In commodity markets, all the chatter of rate cuts helped lift gold to 15-week highs and the precious metal was last trading at $1,332.71 per ounce.
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The precious metal is up more than 9% for the year and is on track for its biggest one-year gain since 2017, when it rose 23%.
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The precious metal has leapt 10% in four weeks, breaking above technical resistance which has thwarted every rally for half a decade to finally rise above $50.6,400.
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The precious metal just wrapped up its best week since 2016, sparking renewed interest in the precious metals market after hitting a new 2019 high on Thursday.
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Our live blog tracked market reaction as oil slumped on EIA data and a block sale of gold contracts pushed down the price of the precious metal.
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By materials, precious metal watches suffered a particularly steep decline in units sold, slumping more than 31 percent in July from the same month a year earlier.
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Miner Endeavour Silver Corp will reduce production of the precious metal this year by more than a quarter because of low prices, the company said on Thursday.
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The investment bank predicts the precious metal could trade as high as $1,400 in the short term, or about 2 percent from where futures were trading Wednesday.
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Despite recent falls in the price of gold, now may be the time to add exposure to the precious metal thanks to demand from Asia, experts suggest.
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The U.S. on Tuesday re-imposed a wave of robust sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic's automobile industry, precious metal trade, and a ban on purchasing U.S. dollars.
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The precious metal last week rose to one-year highs and Thai gold investors cut holdings in the physical metal or in gold futures on its rallies.
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The gold price however has got support in recent days, last trading over 4 percent up, as investors flock to the precious metal as a safe haven.
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With the price of the precious metal moving higher this week as sterling has plummeted, analysts are comparing gold's moves to the European currency crisis in 2252.91s.
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So far this year, the value of gold is up 14 percent as investors hide out in the precious metal amid increased turbulence in global stock markets.
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The precious metal, seen as a safe haven, fell 2810 percent last week, its biggest percentage fall in 25 weeks as polls indicated a landslide for Macron.
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And the precious metal has risen about 1.5 percent in 2 of the 3 most recent sessions in which the S&P fell 2 percent or more.
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This week, the precious metal is getting a boost from the softer dollar, as well as safe-haven demand following an explosion in St. Petersburg on Monday.
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Several commodity markets may have experienced sharp turbulence in the first three months of 2016; yet one precious metal seems to have weathered the storm almost effortlessly.
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Spot gold advanced to a six-year high of $1,410.78 an ounce as the prospect of lower U.S. interest rates helped boost the non-yielding precious metal.
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Bucking the sector trend, gold miners slipped as prices of the precious metal sank below $23.3,21 per ounce on Monday to their lowest since late January 21.3753.
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However, more recently the precious metal has traded in a narrow range of $1,300 to $1,350 an ounce as investors have appeared to lack a clear signal.
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S. trade war has put financial markets in turmoil and sparked fears of a global economic slowdown, pushing the precious metal more than 13% higher this year.
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Gold stocks benefitted from a pullback in global equities, as a shock contraction in Chinese imports and exports prompted investors to seek safety in the precious metal.
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Other precious metal prices rose, with silver up 0.6% at $17.12 per ounce, platinum gaining 1.8% to $909.59 and palladium was up 1.8% at $1,769.44 an ounce.
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The precious metal has averaged a gain of 21% in September over the past three decades and trades positive two-thirds of the time, according to Kensho.
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Gold prices surged more than 1%, with the safe-haven precious metal hovering within shouting distance of its more- than-six-year high of $1,554.56 per ounce.
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The precious metal has leapt 10% in four weeks, breaking above technical resistance which has thwarted every rally for half a decade to finally rise above $1,50.6.
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Investors flocked to the precious metal this week, pushing prices to $1,552 an ounce, as the yield curve inversion deepened and again set off recession alarm bells.
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Finally, he argued that bullish sentiment would lead to investors turning away from safe haven assets like gold, and that the precious metal would drop to $1,000.
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The gains lifted the precious metal above its 50-day moving average — a key technical indicator — for the first time since June 15 on an intraday basis.
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The mining index, the top driver of gains on the benchmark, was lifted by gold stocks as a weak dollar spurred more buying of the precious metal.
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The protracted trade dispute has pushed the precious metal, which is considered a safe asset in times of political and economic uncertainty, about 14% higher this year.
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With that in mind, RBC projects gold to end the year at $1,474, which would represent about 3% downside from where the precious metal was trading Tuesday.
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A total of $2.8 billion was sucked into precious metal funds during the week, while bind funds took in $9.2 billion in theur 38th week of inflows.
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So far this year the precious metal has enjoyed a 14% rise and as of November 22019, the spot gold price sits at $220,250 per troy ounce.
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Still, the precious metal is on track to post its narrowest trading range of any quarter in a decade in the last three months of the year.
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A growing percentage of my business is ladies and they want mechanical watches in steel or precious metal that are well designed without all that floral frivolity.
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Metallic finishes have been popular for a few years, especially rose gold — though Dyson might be the first to literally cover the thing in a precious metal.
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Using the current spot price of $1,223 per troy ounce, the gold purchases by the banks added up to a $5.82 billion spending splurge on the precious metal.
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Major gold miners were among the heaviest weights as the spot price of the precious metal took a hit from expectations of tighter monetary policy from the Fed.
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There are contradictory forces at work for gold demand in both those countries, notwithstanding the generally positive medium- to long-term outlook for the precious metal for both.
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Spot gold held near the more than six-year peak touched Wednesday, with rising 0.3% to $1,505.20 an ounce as investors sought the safety of the precious metal.
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In the comic books, the precious metal called vibranium is found in Wakanda, making it a place of interest to forces of good, evil, and everyone in between.
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The precious metal was also supported by increasing market nervousness over U.S. President Donald Trump's unbending demand for a wall to be built on the border with Mexico.
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Despite recent weakness in the gold market, the precious metal is still far outperforming equities this year, having rallied more than 18 percent since the start of 2016.
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Three months ago Washington introduced new sanctions aimed at disrupting gold sales from Venezuela, which exported more than 20 tonnes of the precious metal to Turkey in 2018.
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Thirdly, risk aversion prompted by the Brexit vote — which Hynes called "a real watershed moment" for the precious metal — could push gold to $1,400 an ounce, he said.
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Canada's main stock index edged lower on Thursday as gold miners' shares fell with the precious metal on increased expectations that U.S. interest rates will rise this year.
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Tensions in the Middle East also boosted gold's rally, which has lifted the precious metal nearly $80 or 5% this week and almost 10% so far this year.
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"The change compared to the prior-year quarter is primarily due to the significantly lower copper price and a production-related decline in precious metal sales," it said.
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The Central Bank Gold Agreement was originally signed in 1999 to coordinate gold sales by the various central banks and help stabilise the market for the precious metal.
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Taking the current spot price of $29,321.15 per troy ounce, gold purchases by central banks in 2018 amounted to a $27.7 billion spending splurge on the precious metal.
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Top fallers were precious metal miners Fresnillo and Randgold, which had been among the main beneficiaries of the "risk-off" sentiment that has characterised most of the week.
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Spot gold held near a more than six-year peak touched Wednesday, with rising 0.5% to $1,507.40 an ounce as investors sought the safety of the precious metal.
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Standard Chartered analyst Suki Cooper said world wide auto makers are seeing stricter emissions standards, increasing the demand for the exhaust control devices and therefore, the precious metal.
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Some precious metal experts see interest returning to Europe, in part because the push towards negative interest rates has made depositing cash with banks less and less rewarding.
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The gold market's reaction to the European Central Bank's bold stimulus package suggests interest rate cuts may not be enough to sway the price of the precious metal.
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"The precious metal though facing headwinds from riskier assets continues to demonstrate strong support amid heightened geopolitical uncertainties in the current term," Phillip Futures said in a note.
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The precious metal is often used as a hedge in times of political uncertainty though Macron's first round election victory had sparked an unwinding in safe haven trades.
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David Perdue (R-Ga.) introduced legislation this week that would block cash or precious metal payments to state sponsors of terrorism, including Iran, as well as North Korea.
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Among other precious metal prices, silver was up 0.5 percent at $17.06 an ounce, platinum advanced 0.6 percent at $945.65 and palladium was up 0.9 percent at $1,006.25.
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The remarks boosted gold prices, increasing buying interest in miners of the precious metal which ended the session at a more than seven-and-a-half year high.
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The precious metal was trading at just below $1,670 on Friday, having a few weeks ago surpassed $1,688.60 to hit its highest level since the start of 2013.
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Platinum, this year's best performing precious metal so far, was down 0.19 percent at $1,007.60, after easing 0.3 percent last week in its first weekly decline in seven.
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In addition to its raconteur approach to explaining diamonds and precious metal work, Diva has been trying to promote local artisans and diamond merchants in its retail operation.
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I didn't realize until well into my mid-20s that Petoskeys aren't a precious metal — they're actually small pieces of fossilized coral, dating back to the Devonian Period.
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In the new Disney Plus television series "The Mandalorian," the hero comes from a marginalized group whose planet was strip-mined by Imperials seeking the precious metal beskar.
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Researchers found that the precious metal could be used in such a way so that it increases the effectiveness of other drugs prescribed to treat lung cancer cells.
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Gold's run is almost done, according to gold trader Andrew Keene of AlphaShark, and he has just the way to profit from an expected slide in the precious metal.
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Prices of the precious metal used as a hedge against political and financial turmoil are up more than 7 percent this quarter and more than 16 percent this year.
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The precious metal is highly sensitive to rising U.S. rates, which increase the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding bullion while boosting the dollar, in which it is priced.
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While the prospect of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike sent gold lower on Friday, strategist David Tice told CNBC he is a big believer in the precious metal.
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However, that has not reversed investors' bearish stance on the precious metal, with no let-up in liquidations in exchange-traded funds, and record short positions in Comex gold.
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Investors expect the industrial precious metal will benefit if tax cuts and higher government spending in the major car markets of China and the United States boost auto sales.
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Consolidation in the precious metal has become the driving force for positive near-term momentum in the space, said Zev Spiro, CEO and chief market technician at Orips Research.
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The ruling, a victory for Sibanye, will see investors in cash-strapped Lonmin exchange their shares for a roughly 11 percent stake in a more stable precious metal producer.
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Investors are piling into gold, sending the precious metal to a six-year high on Tuesday, and analysts think the commodity has established a "base" to go even higher.
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Goldcorp Inc advanced 21.3 percent to C$25 and Barrick Gold Corp rose 2960 percent to C$14.853 as prices for the precious metal hit a three-month high.
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Gold prices are on the rise after lagging through the middle part of the year, and some analysts expect the precious metal to continue moving higher into next year.
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Meanwhile, gold stocks climbed as much as 2.3 percent to a more than one-week high as the precious metal typically finds support during periods of global economic uncertainty.
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Wheaton Precious Metal Corp, formerly known as Silver Wheaton Corp, rose 1.7 percent C$133 to help lift the materials group, which includes natural resource companies, by 0.4 percent.
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Higher levels of gold were found in the western Swiss region of Jura, believed to be linked to watchmakers that use the precious metal to decorate their expensive timepieces.
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"The precious metal is clearly the beneficiary of this risk-off appetite and traders are building their hedge," said Naeem Aslam, chief market analyst at Think Markets UK Ltd.
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Platinum was the only precious metal that was trading lower on Monday after South Africa's biggest platinum mine-workers' union signed a two-year wage agreement with Impala Platinum.
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Precious metal funds recorded the fourth-largest inflows ever in the week to Wednesday and investment-grade funds sucked in money, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said on Friday.
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Since gold pays no interest, the precious metal is highly sensitive to increases in U.S. interest rates, which would also typically strengthen the dollar in which gold is priced.
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He said he's betting on the precious metal for protection because of the weakness of the dollar and the lower moves he expects to see in the currency market.
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Elsewhere in commodities, miners under-performed, with precious metal firms Randgold Resources and Fresnillo falling to close sharply lower as the price of spot gold and spot silver declined.
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Considering the major gains seen in the precious metal over the past several months, Spiro maintained that the best is yet to come for the once beaten down commodity.
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The drop in U.S. yields benefited gold, which pays no interest, and pushed the precious metal up 0.3 percent to $1,223.16 and away from its recent trough of $1,204.45.
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The slowdown in smuggling has boosted gold imports at banks in the world's second-biggest buyer of the precious metal, allowing them to charge a premium over global prices.
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Gold steadied on Tuesday as U.S. stocks bounced, allaying earlier market jitters that had pressured European equities and boosted interest in the precious metal as a haven from risk.
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The moves in U.S. yields benefited gold, which pays no interest, and pushed the precious metal up 0.3 percent to $1,223.16 and away from its recent trough of $1,204.45.
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Iron ore on the Dalian Commodity Exchange touched a two-month peak of 479.5 yuan a tonne, while precious metal gold was a touch higher at 1,228 an ounce.
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Impala Platinum (Implats), the world's No. 2 producer of the precious metal, said it was too early to assess the production impact of a weekend fire in South Africa.
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Stocks gained, lead by platinum producers that got a lift from higher spot prices, and that gave the rand support as the precious metal is a key export earner.
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"Garner's noticed that when the net long position of large gold speculators falls to around 100,000 contracts, the precious metal has a tendency to find a bottom," Cramer explained.
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One popular theory is that during colonial times several Spanish galleons headed for the Atlantic Ocean with loads of precious metal from Bolivian mines sank in the River Paraguay.
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The precious metal has climbed 21 percent so far this year to $2130,250 an ounce with money managers eyeing $2200,220 to $20083,22008 in the next six to 22011 months.
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The precious metal leaped from several hundred dollars in the early 2000s to near $2,000 in 2011, and has traded between $1,000 and $1,400 in the last two years.
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Iron ore on the Dalian Commodity Exchange touched a two-month peak of 479.5 yuan a tonne, while precious metal gold was 0.6 percent higher at 1,231 an ounce.
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Gold, a traditional safe haven, has largely failed to benefit from rising geopolitical tensions this year, as investors have chosen the safety of the dollar over the precious metal.
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Speaking to CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" Friday, Watling cited one of the reasons to "short" the precious metal was the beginnings of a cyclical recovery in the global economy.
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Hall said a particular concern was a 21.0 percent drop in exports of unwrought precious metals and precious metal alloys, largely due to weaker demand in Britain and China.
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The precious metal was in limited supply and it had no credit or so-called counterparty risks, because it was not a claim on a specific institution or country.
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Local gold prices jumped to record high last month tracking gains in overseas market and as New Delhi raised import taxes on the precious metal to 12.5% from 13% earlier.
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Investors are now eyeing the crucial U.S. nonfarm payrolls data due out later in the day, where a strong reading for February could stall further gains in the precious metal.
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Spot gold held near a more than six-year peak touched Wednesday, with rising 0.5% to $1,507.66 an ounce as investors continued to seek the safety of the precious metal.
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Made of 18-karat gold, this is the first hallmarked payment card made of precious metal, the UK's Royal Mint, which is producing the card, said in a statement Friday.
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Safe haven gold advanced to a six-year high of $22.004,210 an ounce as geo-political tensions and the prospect of lower U.S. interest rates helped boost the precious metal.
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A tie-up between Randgold Resources and Barrick Gold will leave a void in the London market for investors seeking exposure to gold via companies that produce the precious metal.
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Meanwhile, another bank growing bearish on the precious metal is ABN Amro which revised its gold forecasts as of mid-October down to$1,200 for 2016 and $1,150 in 2017.
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Gold prices have bounced back from recent dips and are likely to continue to climb as investors seeking haven from market turmoil in Europe pour money into the precious metal.
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At the 121 Mining Investment event about half of the more than 100 mining companies attending were either pure gold plays, or were targeting the precious metal in their portfolios.
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Gold and base metal miners perked up in line with a pick up in the price of the precious metal, with Barrick Gold Corp up 0.7 percent at C$21.31.
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The precious metal was above $1,200 per troy ounce and broke above its 50-day moving average on Thursday, the first session on which it has done either since November.
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The precious metal has rallied 16 percent against the euro, 17.5 percent against the and some 24 percent against sterling so far this year, according to data from BNY Mellon.
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The precious metal has been driven up 2981.00 percent this year by economic concerns, which sparked volatility in equities and oil prices and boosted gold's appeal as a safe haven.
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Basic material stocks also fell as BHP Billiton, which has significant oil interests, fell 0.5 percent, while gold stocks lost momentum as the precious metal hit near three-week lows.
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If United want to be able to profit off Mourinho's name, say with their own candelabras of precious metal, they will have to buy out Chelsea's ownership in the trademark.
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The commodity of greatest interest is not a precious metal (though some of those are to be found on asteroids) but something that in space is much more valuable: water.
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Gold prices touched a one-week low overnight before rebounding on Thursday, though the precious metal remained vulnerable to further declines as rallies from the dollar and equities cooled off.
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The sanctions have had knock-on impact on precious metal palladium, which has surged 6 percent this week on the back of concerns about supply from number one producer Russia.
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Amid broader market weakness, gold stocks bucked the trend and were up 2 percent with the Wall Street selloff and the weaker U.S. dollar making the precious metal more attractive.
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The precious metal had traded mixed earlier on Wednesday after Catalonia's leader balked at making a formal declaration of independence from Spain, sending the euro higher and the dollar down.
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The months-long trade war and Brexit uncertainty have roiled financial markets and sparked fears of a global economic slowdown, pushing the precious metal more than 13% higher this year.
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U.S. fund investors pulled $1 billion from commodity funds, including those invested in the precious metal, the largest withdrawals since July 2017, Investment Company Institute (ICI) data showed on Wednesday.
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Flotron was accused of conspiring from July 2008 to November 2013 to place "spoof" orders for precious metal futures contracts that he intended to cancel before they could be executed.
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Gold was steady on Friday as the dollar and stocks fell on a delay to U.S. tax reforms but the precious metal was still poised to end the week lower.
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The precious metal has fallen more than 216.44 percent this week on gains in the U.S. currency and a rise in U.S. 20.33-year Treasury yields to seven-year highs.
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Turner said the dollar was the main driver for gold and he expects the precious metal to come under pressure in the near term, with the dollar extending its rally.
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Falling base and precious metal prices as the dollar strengthened and lingering worries about Chinese demand knocked the mining sector down 3.7 percent, for its worst day in a month.
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And while I won't discourage anyone from buying bitcoin — just know the risks, know your limitations — I'm with Carley when it comes to the precious metal, not the precious keystroke.
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The dovish comments by Fed's Williams also boosted gold past the key $1,450 level for the first time since May 2013, prompting heavy buying in miners of the precious metal.
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"We remain cautiously optimistic on gold as a weaker dollar should provide the precious metal with a robust tailwind for now," INTL FCStone analyst Edward Meir said in a note.
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While boosting the cost of gold to domestic consumers will lead to an increase in smuggling of the precious metal, it's also likely that demand growth will take a hit.
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There are no gold medals, but there is some precious metal involved: a handmade silver belt buckle for those who manage to complete the distance in less than 210 hours.
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Our data suggests that industry could get the same effect from using a smaller amount of gold, and this has economic advantages when you are talking about a precious metal.
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The drop was due to downward pressure on the Chinese economy as well as rising prices for the precious metal in the second half of last year, the association said.
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"This is the same type of gold and same technique applied in 18th century France," says Nicholas Gardnier, who was in charge of the crew painting on the precious metal.
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Gold mining shares took the most points off the index as expectations for the Federal Reserve to push ahead with a U.S. rate increase this month pressured the precious metal.
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Gold prices hit their lowest level since early February as the Fed's policy statement pushed U.S. bond yields up, lifting the opportunity cost of holding the non-yielding precious metal.
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Those imperfections are considered part of an item's history, and repairing it this way can add beauty to the original items — like using precious metal to fix cracks in pottery.
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Data revealed by the council revealed that selling of gold-backed exchange traded funds (ETFs) in the third quarter resulted in sales of more than 116 tons of the precious metal.
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Kovel wants to question Edmonds again as well as Michael Nowak, the bank's global head of base and precious metal trading, and former J. P. Morgan Chase Managing Director Robert Gottlieb.
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Higher gold prices fueled gains for miners of the precious metal, with Newcrest Mining Ltd, Evolution Mining Ltd , Regis Resources Ltd and St Barbara resources Ltd up 22.9 to 22 percent.
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Beyond locking in a supply for an increasingly more precious metal, Apple directly working with the mines may, potentially, allow the company to better manage how the rare metal is gathered.
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A weaker dollar has helped the precious metal recover from a more than 1-1/0.33-year low hit last week, after prices slipped below the key psychological level of $1,200.
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The precious metal has fallen in five out of the last six sessions as expectations for the Federal Reserve to push ahead with a U.S. rate increase this month ramped up.
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Gold scaled a six-month peak on Monday as sliding stock markets and concerns about a global economic slowdown sapped risk sentiment, driving investors to seek safety in the precious metal.
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They were fairly common when metal prices soared through much of the last decade, but have become rare in the last few years for both base metal and precious metal assets.
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TORONTO, May 216 (Reuters) - Canada's main index climbed higher on Thursday, as gold miners gained along higher with prices for the precious metal, and Enbridge Inc was boosted by strong results.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Platinum's discount to fellow precious metal palladium reached its highest level since 21 on Thursday, as the latter soared on heightened vehicle demand and an ongoing supply deficit.
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The price of gold, which has boomed in recent months as nervous investors flocked to the precious metal, touched its highest since April 20.3 and was last up 21.1112% at $22012,2120.
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Gold prices dipped on Thursday but held near the pivotal level of $1,500 per ounce, underpinned by demand for the precious metal amid uncertainties around monetary policy, trade and geopolitical tensions.
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In a turbulent market, or worse still, a sputtering financial system, the precious metal becomes that much more precious in a market offering less and less in the way of yield.
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Other recent investors in gold include Stanley Druckenmiller, George Soros and DoubleLine Capital CEO Gundlach said recently that gold could go to $1,400, and he continues to hold the precious metal.
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Also weighing on gold is a stronger dollar in which the precious metal is denominated internationally and expectations that president-elect Donald Trump's massive infrastructure plan will spur growth and inflation.
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The precious metal hit a one-week high above $20.9,068.19.44 on Friday after data showed U.S. employment growth slowed more than expected in August after two straight months of robust gains.
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The precious metal is on track for its third straight month of gains and sitting near six-year highs as market watchers await a key Federal Reserve decision on interest rates.
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Gold prices edged up on Tuesday, hovering around their highest levels in nearly a year, as North Korea's most powerful nuclear test to date underpinned haven demand for the precious metal.
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Safe haven assets have been rallying and gold is no exception, with the precious metal rising to a one-year high of $1,260.60 an ounce, up 4 percent on the day.
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Brian Williams, better known as the rapper Birdman, has embellished even the most mundane of spaces with the precious metal: In his bathroom sits a solid gold toilet worth $1 million.
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Gold steadied as a stronger dollar pushed the metal off Tuesday's 9-1/2-month high, but the precious metal remained above $1,300 on renewed tensions between Washington and North Korea.
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AROUND THE WEB: A mining firm is suing the federal government over its decision to review its lease renewal request for precious metal mining in Minnesota, the Duluth News Tribune reports.
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The terror group is attempting to infiltrate the gold mining industry in Niger so it can sell the precious metal on the black market and finance terrorism, according to one official.
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Gold miners retreated as prices for the precious metal slipped from last week's 13-month high ahead of the Fed meeting and another key policy decision from the Bank of Japan.
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While investors have endured torrid times as global equity markets have slumped, even worse tribulations may be required for the precious metal to regain its past luster as a safe haven.
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After being cold-called or contacted on social media, the victims were allegedly encouraged to authorize investment in the precious metal on the London commodities market, along with other investment products.
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The precious metal had pared its gains after touching a two-week high on Thursday, after Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled legislation to overhaul the U.S. tax system.
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A huge sell order totaling 1.85 million ounces pushed gold to a six-week low on Monday, although the precious metal ultimately failed to break below the 200-day moving average.
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Traders feared shutdowns of air travel and precious metal refineries due to the pandemic will make it harder to ship bullion from London to the United States to meet contractual requirements.
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The precious metal traded lower earlier after the U.S. dollar turned positive as investors awaited U.S. inflation figures later this week for further clues about the pace of interest rate rises.
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Blankfein had been a precious metal salesman and rose through the ranks of the trading division, which has dominated the firm for much of its history as a publicly traded company.
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Gold miners meanwhile lost ground as the precious metal failed to retain its lustre a day after rallying on Fed Chair Janet Yellen's signal that rates will likely rise only gradually.
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TORONTO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Canada's benchmark stock index rose on Friday as higher oil prices helped heavyweight energy stocks and gold miners recovered as the price of the precious metal steadied.
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A retreat in the dollar, in which the precious metal is priced, has helped gold to pull back nearly 2 percent from last week's one-month low of $1,306.81 an ounce.
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On 7 this month, US re-took the 1st round sanction against Iran, that is the sanction about foreign exchange, precious metal, graphite, aluminum, steel, industrial software, automotive and civil aviation.
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Precious metal miner Fresnillo ended flat, outperforming the sector after reporting a more than six-fold jump in its profit for the year on higher output and a weak Mexican peso.
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Eidoo, a company offering a gold-backed stablecoin, invites customers to keep an eye on its reserves of the precious metal through a video link to the vault where they are stored.
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It remains the best performing precious metal this quarter, with a drop of just 8 percent, compared with a 14 percent drop in gold prices and an 11 percent retreat in platinum.
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This nugget, then, is the congealed toil of an exhausted human being who sells his time and health — likely at poverty wages — to produce a paltry amount of a putatively precious metal.
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Still, the precious metal was supported by tempered expectations of a U.S. rate hike in March after minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting struck a less hawkish note than expected.
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Many Asian markets and London were closed for national holidays, dampening momentum in the precious metal, which posted its biggest weekly rally since early February last week, up more than 5 percent.
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As gold continues to rally in 20163, one of Wall Street's most closely followed commodities watchers says we could be in the early days of a historic rally for the precious metal.
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Gold hovered near a two-week low on Tuesday, after its steepest loss since March in the prior session, as a firm dollar and higher equities curbed appetite for the precious metal.
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Gold prices dipped on Thursday but held near the pivotal level of $1,500 per ounce, underpinned by continued demand for the precious metal amid uncertainties around monetary policy, trade and geopolitical tensions.
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Jodie Gunzberg, global head of commodities and real assets at S&P Dow Jones Indices, sees the potential for high volatility but a certain precious metal possibly being a longer-run winner.
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Gold prices are expected to rise in 2017 as geopolitics, deflationary pressure, more quantitative easing, negative interest rates, Brexit drive demand for the precious metal, which is seen as a safe haven.
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India's top GSP exports to the U.S. in 2017 included motor vehicle parts, ferro alloys, precious metal jewelry, building stone and insulated cables and wires, according to the Confederation of Indian Industry.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A tie-up between Randgold Resources and Barrick Gold will leave a void in the London market for investors seeking exposure to gold via companies that produce the precious metal.
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Meanwhile, both spot gold and silver prices tumbled during trade, pushing precious metal firms Randgold Resources and Fresnillo to the bottom of the STOXX 600, both closing down 3 percent or more.
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Gold steadied as the stronger dollar pushed the metal off Tuesday's 9-1/2 month high, but the precious metal remained firmly above $1,300 on renewed tensions between Washington and North Korea.
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At the time the gold price continued to decline, bitcoin rose, and while the precious metal saw a bit of renewed support in the first few months, the cryptocurrency continues to skyrocket.
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Blame weakened valuations – both Barrick and Randgold have lost about a third of their market capitalisations over the past year – and pressure even on heavyweights to replenish reserves of the precious metal.
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The precious metal has climbed more than 1073 percent since the start of the year, and according to one trader it could continue to rally through the rest of the first quarter.
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The precious metal had topped $1,500 for about two years, even running above $1,800 at one point, but since early 2013 has not been able to recover back to the $1,500 level.
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Its parent company, German bullion retailer Degussa Goldhandel, started selling precious metal bars and coins to the public again after Germany's von Finck family bought the name from Evonik in November 2011.
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It might be worth the cost, however, just look at the possibilities Chelsea imagined for the Special One™: Hopefully, for the booming precious metal business, United gets this sorted out posthaste.
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The platinum belt in the world's top producer of the precious metal has been a flashpoint of violence rooted in community grievances over jobs and revenue flows and conflict between rival unions.
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However, gold producer Randgold Resources rose 3.8 percent, the top gainer in the FTSE 100 index, after the precious metal jumped to its highest in nearly two years on wider economic uncertainty.
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TORONTO, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index edged lower on Thursday as gold miners' shares fell with the precious metal on increased expectations that U.S. interest rates will rise this year.
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The team added a gold coating, creating small domes of the precious metal where each hole lies, and then a smear of electrolyte gel with added silver ions was layered on top.
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But while the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 was touched off by a few lucky prospectors and the glint of creek-bed precious metal, this one began on election night, 8503.
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Bob Iaccino, of Path Trading Partners, noted on "Futures Now" that a tax on the precious metal is slated to go into effect at the end of the month in that country.
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The nation also has the world's third largest reserves of platinum, the precious metal used in electronic and medical equipment, and is the fifth-largest producer of lithium, essential for rechargeable batteries.
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The price of gold, which has risen sharply in recent months as nervous investors flocked to the precious metal, touched its highest since April 20.2 and was last up 21.1117% at $22012,2120.
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The two-dimensional platinum selenide made in the Singapore lab could make for cheaper fuel cells, which typically use the precious metal platinum to separate a hydrogen atom's proton from its electron.
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The Swiss franc similarly gave back gains and so did gold to a lesser extent, though the precious metal still sat at an almost seven-year high, just below $1600 per ounce.
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And while analysts at the bank admitted its upbeat gold projections might then seem "counterintuitive," it pointed to data from past tightening cycles as reason to be optimistic over precious metal prices.
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The Swiss franc similarly gave back gains and so did gold to a lesser extent, though the precious metal still sat at an almost seven-year high, just below $1600 per ounce.
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Gold fell 217.40% on Tuesday as growing risk appetite boosted investor demand for equities, while a sustained supply crunch in palladium propelled the price of that precious metal to a record high.
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But rather than run from the weakness, one investor says now might be the time to buy the precious metal as well as gold miners, which have fallen 20 percent this year.
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Palladium and rhodium prices, widely used in vehicle exhausts to reduce harmful emissions, have climbed as tighter environmental regulations force carmakers to buy more of the precious metal used in catalytic converters.
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We're able to take these precious-metal-bearing electronic scrap through a first-of-its-kind plasma furnace and very efficiently recover all the high-value elements like gold, copper, silver, and palladium.
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India's top GSP exports to the United States in 2017 included motor vehicle parts, ferro alloys, precious metal jewelry, building stone, insulated cables and wires, said business grouping the Confederation of Indian Industry.
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Shares in precious metal miners Randgold Resources and Fresnillo were top gainers, up 5.2 and 173 percent respectively, as gold rose around 1 percent to its highest in about 2-1/2 months.
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Gold prices, which can gain during times of uncertainty, have largely failed to benefit from rising geopolitical tensions this year, as investors have chosen the safety of the dollar over the precious metal.
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The precious metal has fallen more than 11 percent from its April peak after investors preferred the dollar as the U.S.-China trade war unfolded against a background of higher U.S. interest rates.
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The gold standard pegged the value of currencies to the precious metal at $35 an ounce, and the US Federal Reserve promised other central banks to exchange dollars for gold, and vice versa.
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Gold miners were among the biggest gainers, as prices for the precious metal rose 1 percent after weaker-than-expected U.S. inflation data for May knocked the dollar index to nine-month lows.
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Gold steadied on Thursday as uncertainty regarding the economic policies of new U.S. President-elect Donald Trump helped support the precious metal even as some investors returned to riskier assets such as stocks.
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Gold prices hit their highest level in six years on Tuesday as investors plowed into the precious metal amid the prospects for lower interest rates, a softer global economy and increased geopolitical tensions.
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The lab confirmed Reed's findings: the 6-gram nugget Curry was trying to sell as precious metal from outer space was just some carbon steel with a vanishing trace of nickel in it.
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Although Parrilla thinks gold prices should stay contained in the short-term, down the track he envisages a "perfect storm" investment thesis that could ultimately end with asymmetric upside for the precious metal.
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Goldman analysts said they continued to expect U.S. real rates rise into the year-end, weighing on gold prices, but they added that demand for the precious metal will still give some support.
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Gold miners weighed as the precious metal came off a five-month high, with Alamos Gold Inc falling 1.43 percent to C$10.75 and B2Gold Corp down 3.1 percent at C$3.7 percent.
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The recent gold price rally looks unsustainable and it's time to sell, Societe Generale analysts say, taking an opposite view to rival Deutsche Bank that only last week advocated buying the precious metal.
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India's top GSP exports to the United States in 2017 included motor vehicle parts, ferro alloys, precious metal jewellery, building stone, insulated cables and wires, said business grouping the Confederation of Indian Industry.
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It also made a valuation gain of 3.8 billion francs on its gold holdings, the SNB said on Wednesday, as the global price of the precious metal got tailwinds from low interest rates.
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Last month, Newmont said it would buy smaller rival Goldcorp Inc, for $10 billion, creating the world's biggest gold producer in the face of dwindling easy-to-find reserves of the precious metal.
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Gold has been on fire this year, and some investors think the precious metal is poised to do something it has only done twice since World War II: enter a major bull market.
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The world's largest producer of the precious metal also announced that it had acquired Glencore's 39 percent stake in Mototolo, a mechanised platinum mine on the eastern limb of South Africa's platinum belt.
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According to a criminal complaint made available on Wednesday, Andre Flotron and his co-conspirators placed "spoof" orders for precious metal futures contracts that they intended to cancel before they could be executed.
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The U.S. Forest Service says it is "deeply concerned" about potential precious metal mining in an environmentally sensitive area of Minnesota, raising the prospect it may block the renewal of mineral leases there.
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Clashes between anti-government activists and police in the regional financial hub are spooking tourists and subduing jewellery sales amid concerns about the logistics of shipping the precious metal out of the city.
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" But those who are more comfortable investing in the precious metal itself might find BAR worth considering, which he said is no different than the ever-popular GLD, "except it's half the cost.
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BENGALURU (Reuters) - Gold edged down on Friday as investors turned cautious ahead of U.S. jobs data later in the day, but the precious metal remained on course for a sixth consecutive weekly gain.
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The precious metal remains down more than 10 percent from its April peak after investors preferred the dollar as the U.S.-China trade war unfolded against a background of higher U.S. interest rates.
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Prices for palladium and rhodium, widely used in vehicle exhausts to reduce harmful emissions, have climbed as tighter environmental regulations force carmakers to buy more of the precious metal used in catalytic converters.
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Prices for palladium and rhodium, widely used in vehicle exhausts to reduce harmful emissions, have climbed as tighter environmental regulations force carmakers to buy more of the precious metal used in catalytic converters.
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Manufacturers' raw-material costs rose 2.1% in annual terms last month, the biggest increase since April, which reflected a surge in precious metal prices, particularly for palladium, used in catalytic converters for cars.
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Gold prices may be rising, but the precious metal is failing to attract investors as concerns about policy normalization by central banks weighs on demand and creates a conflicted outlook for the commodity.
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Gold prices steadied near 2180-month lows on Tuesday, attempting a break back above the key $22017,200 level as the dollar eased and analysts said the precious metal could have fallen too far.
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Demand for gold usually strengthens in the final quarter as India gears up for the wedding season as well as festivals such as Diwali and Dhanteraas, when buying the precious metal is considered auspicious.
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Labour and social strife in South Africa's platinum belt, the source of more than 70 percent of known reserves of the precious metal, has piled pressure onto an industry already hit by depressed prices.
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"While the improving market mood has the potential to send the precious metal lower in the near term, the medium to longer term outlook remains bullish," FXTM analyst Lukman Otunuga said in a note.
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Gold's precious metal peers were less resilient, taking their cues from the industrial side on concerns about demand amid the trade spat, Bart Melek, head of commodity strategies at TD Securities in Toronto, said.
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Bank of America analysts last month lifted their target on gold to $1,475 after seeing investors pile into the precious metal on turbulence generated by the U.K. Brexit vote, along with other market factors.
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Labor and social strife in South Africa's platinum belt, the source of more than 70 percent of known reserves of the precious metal, has piled pressure on an industry already hit by depressed prices.
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This is sparking hopes that the precious metal may finally break out of a fairly narrow five-year range, although it's still far from certain that the dynamics for a sustained rally are entrenched.
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A stronger-than-expected June jobs report put the precious metal on pace Friday for its first weekly loss in nearly two months as investors reevaluated the Federal Reserve's policy plans for interest rates.
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Gold has tumbled leading up to Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's much-anticipated speech at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday, but some traders believe her words will not bode badly for the precious metal.
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Gold is traditionally considered a safe investment during times of uncertainty, and weakness in the U.S. dollar has added to demand for the precious metal by making it cheaper for holders of other currencies.
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Gold barely budged on Friday as rising demand from Asia was offset by a strong dollar but the precious metal remained on track for its first weekly rise since the week ending Sept. 30.
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TrueUSD, another dollar-pegged stablecoin, holds collateral funds in an external trust; Eidoo, whose stablecoin is backed by gold, lets customers monitor the precious metal via webcam in the vaults where it is stored.
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Gold stocks, which have gained for fourth straight session, look set to snap that momentum as the price of the precious metal fell on Wednesday after the U.S. dollar recovered following the Fed decision.
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These commenced with the "London Whale" LIBOR-fixing scandal discovered in 2012 and were quickly followed by remarkably similar EURIBOR, foreign exchange, precious metal, and commodity price-fixing scandals in the immediately ensuing years.
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Societe Generale's Lawrence McDonald told CNBC Pro on Monday that the jump in negative-yielding debt is a "fresh wind in gold's sails" and will cause a "serious demand surge" for the precious metal.
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A similarly rapid move of $200 in futures contracts for the precious metal would have caught the attention of global investors: Gold has traded in a range of about $150 so far this year.
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The precious metal is outperforming the index, which is up more than 6.5 percent, as investors hedge against the possibility that the Trump administration does not succeed in pushing through its pro-growth agenda.
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The scaling down in expectations for large rate cuts from the Fed also knocked gold prices by more than 21%, putting the precious metal on course for its first decline in seven trading sessions.
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Used mainly in emissions-reducing auto catalysts for vehicles, palladium, the only precious metal on track for an annual gain, was also helped by speculation Beijing may provide a stimulus to Chinese auto markets.
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Gold rose on Thursday as the U.S. dollar backed away from 22.2 highs after weaker-than-forecast U.S. inflation data and as tensions between the United States and Iran also supported the precious metal.
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Gold has rallied 6 percent this year, and as investors weigh mounting geopolitical tensions, one trader is betting nearly $1.5 million on an even bigger rise for the precious metal in the second half.
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All in all, she expects the precious metal to run to $1,350 before finding any kind of ceiling of resistance, with the possibility for gold to reach the $1,400s if some global calamity occurs.
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Chinese workers are said to have laid the last rails to complete the line at the Golden Spike Ceremony before dignitaries tapped four precious metal spikes into a polished tie made from California Laurelwood.
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"Given that palladium is widely regarded as the most 'industrial' metal of the precious metal complex, and thereby more closely linked to the business cycle, it is not surprising it fell along with equities."
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LONDON (Reuters) - Gold bulls are starting to rear their heads with the price of the precious metal hitting three-month highs, but their optimism could be premature due to uncertainty over U.S. interest rates.
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The eastern limb of South Africa's platinum belt has been a flashpoint of labour and community unrest, threatening production and the viability of some operations in the world's largest producer of the precious metal.
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The platinum belt has been a flashpoint of violence rooted in community grievances over jobs, revenue flows and conflict between rival unions that threatens production in the world's top producer of the precious metal.
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But gains in the precious metal were limited as Powell's dovish tone helped revive risk appetite, driving world stocks to their highest in more than two weeks, while the dollar and bond yields fell.
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Gold prices fell on Wednesday after rising as much as 1.3% earlier in the session, as traders sold the precious metal to cover margins for stock markets spooked by the global spread of coronavirus.
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Gold broke above $1,300 last week and is on a steady rise as tensions continue to rise between North Korea and the U.S. Some market experts now predict the precious metal could strengthen further.
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"The euro recovery against the greenback has also failed to lift bullion, confirming that there is little investor appetite for the precious metal at this time," said ActivTrades chief analyst Carlo Alberto De Casa.
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Gold was near flat on Thursday after two straight sessions of gains as a stronger U.S. dollar index weighed on upside momentum, though the precious metal took some comfort from a steadier Chinese currency.
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The U.S. strikes in Iraq and recent dollar weakness combined to burnish the value of gold, driving the precious metal 0.84% higher on the spot market to $1,541.73 per ounce, around four-month highs.
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The U.S. strikes in Iraq and recent dollar weakness combined to burnish the value of gold, driving the precious metal 0.84% higher on the spot market to $1,541.73 per ounce, around four-month highs.
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Cooper said one positive for the gold market is that in India, one of the biggest gold buyers, the rupee-gold relationship has become a positive for the precious metal and could spur buying.
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Many companies including Tesla told CNN at the time that they were unable to fully trace out their supply chains due to what they described as the complex nature of sourcing the precious metal.
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Families will mine rock that has very tiny amounts of gold ore inside it, crush the rock, and then mix in mercury, which has a strong affinity for gold, to extract the precious metal.
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"Gold remains vulnerable to further losses as the inverse relationship between the precious metal and the greenback continues to materialize and our client sentiment report shows retail traders are still long on bullion," Song said.
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Posted by Nemes Jeles László on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 Take note, frequent flyers, even when you're carrying around a bunch of precious metal, that still doesn't mean you're immune to the thrills of TSA.
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"The correction of the greenback has given a lift to bullion while the decline of U.S. yields is another favourable element for the precious metal," said ActivTrades analyst Carlo Alberto De Casa in a note.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's Sibanye-Stillwater said on Wednesday its Chairman Sello Moloko would step down after the precious metal producer and Lonmin cleared the final hurdle to create the world's second-largest platinum producer.
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Strategic Analysis says using that much less of the precious metal would save up to $300 per fuel cell stack, based on an estimate that Toyota now uses about 30 grams of platinum per unit.
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Sibanye said the consensus outlook for precious metal prices in the near term, particularly in rand terms, was subdued and further sustained rand strength would impact on operating margins in its gold and platinum divisions.
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The precious metal has benefited, along with bonds and the Japanese yen JPY=, from a rush to safety as investors worry about the health of some banks, financial instability and the potential for global recession.
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Gold rose to its highest level in more than six years on Wednesday as concerns about the global economy made the precious metal and other traditional safe havens more attractive than riskier assets like stocks.
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Earlier in the session, prices broke above the key $1,200 level as a slide in stock markets on the back of rising U.S. Treasury yields prompted some investors to seek refuge in the precious metal.
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The materials group, which includes precious and base metals miners and fertilizer companies, lost 0.3 percent as gold miners tempered the overall losses with the precious metal trading near its highest price in a year.
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Most of the purchases were by China and Russia, who added 10 and 11 tons of the precious metal to their holdings, respectively, after a sharp run-up in purchases over the last ten years.
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It said some precious metal and crude oil trading venues were suspected of engaging in illegal futures trading activities, while others were suspected of a range of offences including manipulating market prices and defrauding investors.
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That's part of the reason why bitcoin is often cast as the "death knell" to gold, which remains a precious metal because only 1 percent of the world's supply is mined each year, Cramer said.
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The precious metal miner said it had concluded talks with stakeholders on restructuring its gold operations following financial losses at the Beatrix 1 and Driefontein 2,6,7,8 shafts since 73, with only 3,450 jobs now affected.
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And we give them crowns and titles because symbols have weight and meaning, and because fairy tales and hallmark movies have trained us to believe that precious metal headgear and titles confer prestige and desirability.
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TORONTO, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index edged lower on Wednesday as a drop in oil prices weighed on energy shares, offsetting gains for the materials group as base and precious metal prices climbed.
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TORONTO, May 17 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index fell at the open on Wednesday in broad-based declines led by banks, but losses were tempered by higher gold prices, which bolstered precious metal mining shares.
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Prices for Palladium XPD=, widely used in vehicle exhausts to reduce harmful emissions, have doubled from a low in August last year as tighter environmental regulations force carmakers to buy more of the precious metal.
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Lower buying by the world's second biggest consumer of the precious metal could weigh on global prices that jumped 240% in 21, but help the government bring down the trade deficit and support the rupee.
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Prices for Palladium XPD=, widely used in vehicle exhausts to reduce harmful emissions, have doubled from a low in August last year as tighter environmental regulations force carmakers to buy more of the precious metal.
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Gold recovered some ground on Friday as a weakening U.S. dollar relieved pressure on prices, but the precious metal remained near 19-month lows and looked poised for its biggest weekly drop since May 2017.
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There have been fears the tax increase could stoke under-the-counter buying and spur appetite for precious metal smuggled into India, where millions of people store chunks of their wealth in bullion and jewelry.
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Gold prices edged up on Friday, supported by a weaker dollar and worries about a possible U.S. government shutdown, but the precious metal was still on track for its first weekly drop in six weeks.
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Gold miners weighed even as the precious metal hit a five-month high on rising geopolitical tensions, with Alamos Gold Inc falling 2.8 percent to C$10.64 and Goldcorp Inc down 0.4 percent to C$20.43.
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Gold prices rose on Monday as global stocks fell on data showing China exports unexpectedly fell, pointing to further weakening in the world's second-largest economy and prompting investors to seek safety in the precious metal.
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"Bond yields are falling again which is further good news for the precious metal as the lower yields boost the value of non-interest bearing assets on a relative basis," Fawad Razaqzada, market analyst with Forex.
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The precious metal jumped as much as 22013 percent to its highest in more than two years, tracking the rally in other safe havens, such as bonds, as risky assets were dumped from stocks to sterling.
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Only gold producers are likely to see any benefit, with the precious metal enjoying more gains in early trade on Monday, climbing as much as 1.9% to a fresh six-year high of $1,554.56 an ounce.
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Gold is on course to head as high as $1,500 per ounce, according to a technical analyst, who says the current environment will disrupt the usual inverse relationship between the U.S. dollar and the precious metal.
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The precious metal rose more than 2 percent last week, its biggest weekly gain in nearly two months, thanks chiefly to the U.S. Federal Reserve's cautious tone on interest rates after its policy meeting on Wednesday.
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Higher demand from the world's second-biggest gold consumer could support global prices that are trading near their lowest in a year, although a rise in imports of the precious metal would widen India's trade deficit.
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TORONTO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index spiked to its highest close in almost two weeks on Wednesday as gold miners surged with the precious metal after the Federal Reserve held U.S. interest rates steady.
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Since the referendum result, there has been $335 million of inflows into precious metal on the back of Brexit concerns, according to James Butterfill, executive director and head of research at investment strategy at ETF Securities.
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The precious metal hit a two-week high on Monday as the plunged to a 6-week low after the Fed's dovish outlook on the pace of rate increases this year continued to disappoint dollar bulls.
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Gold is down more than 7 percent since the day of the U.S. election but the precious metal has managed to pare some losses and is up nearly 5 percent since the start of the year.
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South African mining companies, which produce 70 percent of the world's platinum, are hamstrung by soaring costs and low precious metal prices as well as new rules requiring higher black ownership that they say discourage investment.
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The precious metal can be volatile, yes, but a rise of 6 percent in the last month even as the stock market's rally had stalled seems to hint that gold is moving in the right direction.
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WGC talks on creating a global kilobar standard would aim to include companies from the world of gold refining, banks and brokers that trade the precious metal in the futures and physical markets and the LBMA.
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Major gold miners were among the heaviest weights on the day as the spot price of the precious metal took a hit from the U.S. data supporting expectations of tighter monetary policy from the Federal Reserve.
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TORONTO, April 19 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index ended lower on Wednesday as a sharp fall in oil prices weighed on its heavyweight energy sector and gold miners slipped with lower prices for the precious metal.
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Gold miners slumped 4.1%, their sharpest intraday loss in more than two years and were among the top losers on the benchmark as prices of the precious metal took a hit after Fed's policy outlook statement.
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Gold rose for an eighth straight session on Wednesday as a retreat in the dollar encouraged some investors to buy into the metal, while this year's leading precious metal palladium hit another near 17-year peak.
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The precious metal, which is often used to store wealth in times of political or economic uncertainty, showed signs of strength after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was not pleased with recent talks with China.
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His belief in gold's bright future was shared at the time by many Americans and a number of financial luminaries, including George Soros and John Paulson, both of whom were investing heavily in the precious metal.
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Although online gold purchases have been growing globally for years, they are a relatively recent phenomenon in India, where jewellry and bars of the precious metal tend to be kept in hand and given as gifts.
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Seeing the precious metal transform before her eyes brought back instant memories of her father, who was a goldsmith with his own jewelry atelier at home in São Paulo, Brazil, when Ms. Furmanovich was growing up.
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"The precious metal, though facing bearish pressures over a strong rally in the equities market, will remain vigorous over subdued global growth and geopolitical uncertainties in Q4," Phillip Futures analyst Benjamin Lu said in a note.
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Demand for gold, which typically surges during the season that started in mid-October and ends on Friday, is also weak despite dealers offering discounts on the precious metal for the first time in three years.
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Although online gold purchases have been growing globally for years, they are a relatively recent phenomenon in India, where jewelry and bars of the precious metal tend to be kept in hand and given as gifts.
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There have been fears the tax increase could stoke under-the-counter buying and drive up appetite for precious metal smuggled into India, where millions of people store chunks of their wealth in bullion and jewellery.
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Gold eased on Thursday, holding below the key $21,2317.74 an ounce level, as the dollar bounced back from lows, with the precious metal paring back gains seen after dovish U.S. Federal Reserve minutes in the previous session.
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The price for the precious metal has fallen more than 2 percent this week, due to the strengthening dollar and several indications from members of the Federal Reserve hinting towards a potential interest rate hike in March.
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"The precious metal though easing up on bullish gains from U.S. dollar vigour will remain supported over subdued global growth and accommodative monetary policy by global central banks," Phillip Futures analyst Benjamin Lu said in a note.
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Precious metal miner Fresnillo fell 1.5 percent, tracking the broader sector weakness, despite reporting a more than six-fold jump in its profit for the year on higher output and metal prices and a weak Mexican peso.
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Gold surged to its highest level in nearly six years on Monday as the prospects of lower Federal Reserve rates and lingering geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and Iran made the precious metal more attractive to traders.
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Last week, after carefully brushing away soil from the bones, Korac's team found two amulets made of lead that, when opened, were each found to rolls of precious metal - silver and gold - covered in symbols and writing.
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TORONTO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index ended barely higher on Friday, notching a 1.7 percent gain on the week, as losses among mining stocks as precious metal prices fell offset big gains for major banks.
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The precious metal has been rising since last Wednesday, when the dollar dropped after the U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates but stopped short of predicting a sharper acceleration in monetary tightening over the next two years.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - If there was a gold medal on offer at every competition for the oldest gymnast on show, Oksana Chusovitina would have needed to hire Fort Knox to stockpile a hoard of precious metal.
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Palladium hit a record peak on Friday, on expectations that Chinese economic stimulus would drive demand for the autocatalyst metal, while news that Russia may ban exports of precious metal scraps compounded worries of a supply deficit.
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Gold industry insiders say the country's overseas purchases of the precious metal could fall by more than 50 percent this month, after hitting about 100 tonnes in November, as retail demand falters in the wake of demonetization.
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Central bank gold demand contracted to lows not seen in more than half a decade in the first quarter as Chinese purchases of the precious metal stalled, the World Gold Council (WGC) said in a report Thursday.
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ET Canada's main stock index suffered its biggest drop since mid-December on Thursday as pipeline operators led declines for energy companies, while gold miners were pressured by a pullback in the price of the precious metal.
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If you think of gold as an all-or-nothing trade, a "safe haven" replacements for equities and even bonds when markets are volatile, there's a big risk to sticking with the precious metal for too long.
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China has launched interbank gold trading at the beginning of this year, part of a broader drive to open up the country's bullion market and increase financial investments in the world's largest consumer of the precious metal.
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In a world full of negative yielding debt, hard assets like gold could become even more attractive, and some strategists say a case could be made for a $2000,25.2 per ounce price tag on the precious metal.
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China launched interbank gold trading at the beginning of this year as part of a broader drive to open up the country's bullion market and increase financial investment in the world's largest consumer of the precious metal.
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"Traceable sourcing of the precious metal is essential because it is the only way to prevent gold mined in breach of human rights from being imported into Switzerland," the Swiss government said in a statement on Wednesday.
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The Madre de Dios mining boom began in 2009 when gold prices rose following the global recession that saw spooked investors seek out the precious metal, which is widely seen as a safe investment in difficult times.
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However, the jump in risk appetite took some of the recent shine off safe-haven gold, putting pressure on miners of the precious metal, which have rallied since the start of the year on heightened market jitters.
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London (CNN Business)Investors are snapping up gold bars and coins, seeking the security offered by the precious metal as the coronavirus pandemic trashes economies and forces central banks to print trillions of dollars in new money.
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The precious metal hit a low of $523,456.8, its lowest level since Nov 27, and traded below its 200-day moving average level of $1,497.4 for the first time since Dec 20, 2018 on an intraday basis.
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The big picture: The trade war has dented CEO confidence and many companies are holding off on capital expenditures and large investments, but gold mining companies have typically splurged when prices of the precious metal have risen.
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The precious metal saw some profit taking in early trade after failing to push through key psychological resistance at $1,200 an ounce, but picked up after U.S. markets opened and looked set to retest the $1,200 level.
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It said three others were injured in the accident, which happened on Thursday night in Qabqaba, a main gold mining area in the Nile River state where both licensed companies and individuals dig for the precious metal.
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Gold miners were poised for a strong day as the precious metal enjoyed its best day since Britain's vote to leave the EU. Fresnillo rose 8.5 percent and was the best performing stock across the Stoxx 600.
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"With all the extra stimulus from governments and central banks out there, it's been a wild ride in debt markets recently, further feeding the frenzy in precious metal markets," OANDA analyst Craig Erlam said in a note.
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Four of the index's 10 main groups ended lower, with the materials group, which includes precious and base metals miners and fertilizer companies, dipping 0.2 percent as a stronger U.S. dollar weighed on base and precious metal prices.
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The precious metal broker, GoldCore, has opened a new storage facility in Dublin as it makes the bet that investors will look to diversify holdings away from London following the United Kingdom's departure from the EU next year.
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The precious metal was up more than 214.86 percent so far this week as investors awaited the U.S. non-farm payrolls report due at 214.91 GMT, which could yield vital clues about the outlook for U.S. monetary policy.
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Amid growing expectations of rising inflation or even promises of more economic stimulus, analysts seem divided as to how gold will perform in the longer term and the reasons for owning the precious metal in the first place.
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Gold, which is often seen as an alternative investment in times of geopolitical and financial uncertainty, suffered after the debate as a higher appetite for risk favored shares, the dollar and the Mexican peso over the precious metal.
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Davis Hall, head of forex and precious metals at Indosuez, said gold's retreat suggested upside for the precious metal was limited, but that the metal could still benefit from a Trump victory as the longer-term implications emerged.
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Todd Hoffman, 49, star of Discovery's longstanding Gold Rush reality series, has amassed quite a bit of the precious metal — "more than $1003 million and less than $5 million," he says — and he's ready to spread the wealth.
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Mark Williams of London gold fund Charteris said the Randgold delisting would be a "sad day" for investors in the UK capital, noting that London-listed Fresnillo, also a precious metal producer, was not a pure gold play.
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Gold is trading near a six-year high following three straight months of gains, but Wednesday's announcement of a cut to interest rates by the U.S. Federal Reserve could provide the precious metal with even more price gains.
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The precious metal surged to six-year highs on Monday as U.S. stocks plummeted in their worst trading day of 2019 on escalating worries around the U.S.-China trade war and its impact on domestic and global economies.
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Data from the World Gold Council released Thursday showed demand for the precious metal was resilient in 2015, despite a challenging start to the year, due to a strong demand in the second half from China and India.
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However, the difference is to be expected when you consider how much precious metal you're actually buying: Samsung's gold is just plating on top of the Classic's stainless steel body, while the Apple Watch Edition is solid gold.
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Bucking the weaker trend among European stocks were precious metal miners such as Randgold and Fresnillo, both up more than 1 percent, as risk aversion boosted gold, traditionally used as a safe haven at times of market angst.
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VTB said earlier on Tuesday it had dispatched its first batch of gold to China, becoming the first Russian bank to start direct supplies of physical gold to the world's largest buyer and consumer of the precious metal.
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The precious metal has entered a key technical zone, and it might just be about to prove that it has the stamina to stay at higher levels while global risk markets are rocked and investors look for safety.
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TORONTO, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index ended higher on Wednesday, with banks among the most influential gainers as the Bank of Canada hiked interest rates while gold miners weighed as prices for the precious metal fell.
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Lead ore was used to smelt silver, and its presence provides evidence that the precious metal was once again in demand for making new coins as the European economy started to grow quickly in 640, according to Loveluck.
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Gold hit its lowest in over six months on Tuesday as a selloff in global risk assets eased and the precious metal remained under pressure from the prospect that rising U.S. interest rates will further support the dollar.
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But things didn't quite pan out the way gold bulls would have hoped, and now they face a new year where the price of the precious metal is likely to be hostage to developments that are inherently unpredictable.
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Lonmin is not the only platinum producer hit by community protests in South Africa, which sits on over 70 percent of known global reserves of the precious metal used for emissions-capping catalytic converters in the auto industry.
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A 2015 report by Ojo Publico reported that companies with ties to the London Bullion Market Association — an organization that determines the international price of gold — acquired precious metal from illegal mining camps in Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.
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TORONTO, June 3 (Reuters) - Canada's benchmark stock index ended higher on Friday as gold miners' shares jumped with the precious metal after weak U.S. jobs data hit the U.S. dollar, while financial stocks and some energy companies weighed.
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Gold prices might be under pressure from the current "risk-on" environment for equities and rising interest rates, but several analysts expect the price to recover and say the precious metal can provide investors some real risk protection.
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MOSCOW, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Russia could consider investing part of its National Wealth Fund in gold, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said, adding that he sees the precious metal as more sustainable in the long-term than financial assets.
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ET. Canada's main stock index fell on Tuesday to its lowest close in nearly seven months, as precious metal miners and technology shares led a retreat in lighter than usual trading volumes with U.S. markets closed for Independence Day.
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Some analysts expect the precious metal to take a rest and pull back in the near term, but then continue to edge higher later in the year and head toward $21,350 per ounce towards the end of the year.
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However, the precious metal was on track for its best month since January 0.13, having scrambled back from sharp declines in the year due to volatility in equities and a subdued dollar, along with worries over slowing global growth.
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Lower buying by the world's second biggest consumer of the precious metal could weigh on global prices trading near their highest level in almost seven years, but help New Delhi bring down the trade deficit and support the rupee.
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China National Gold Group Gold Jewellery Co, which supplies precious metal items to shops, unveiled the plan on Thursday to raise 2.25 billion yuan ($337.86 million) by offloading a 41 percent stake to investors, Xinhua said, citing the company.
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While precious metal prices have risen sharply this year, they fell to multi-year lows last year, and it takes jewelry companies 9-12 months to make and get products to its shelves, Edward Jones analyst Brian Yarbrough said.
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The precious metal had fallen about 13 percent since hitting a peak in April, with investors relying on the safety of the U.S. dollar as a trade war with China unfolded, against a backdrop of rising U.S. interest rates.
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ANKARA, April 4 (Reuters) - Turkey is taking steps to give its central bank the right of first refusal on domestically produced gold, two sources said, allowing it to boost reserves of the precious metal without depleting foreign currency holdings.
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However, gold premiums in India, the second largest consumer of the precious metal, jumped to two-year highs last week as jewelers ramped up purchases on fears the government might curb imports after withdrawing higher-denomination notes from circulation.
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While it's generally good advice to treat gold bulls with caution because of their permanent "buy" recommendation, it's possible to make an argument that the sluggish market for the precious metal of the past few years may be over.
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The precious metal miner said it had entered into talks with stakeholders on restructuring its gold operations following financial losses at the Beatrix 1.63 and Driefontein 21.6,21,20.7808,8 shafts during 2018, which could affect around 5,870 employees and 800 contractors.
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In a one-count indictment made public on Wednesday, Andre Flotron was accused of conspiring from July 2008 to November 2013 to place orders for precious metal futures contracts that he intended to cancel before they could be executed.
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The precious metal miner said it had entered into consultation with stakeholders on restructuring its gold operations following financial losses at the Beatrix 1 and Driefontein 2,6,7,8 shafts during 2018, which could affect around 5,870 employees and 800 contractors.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Protesters in northern Mexico blocked access for a fourth day on Monday to a gold mine operated by Canada's Goldcorp over a water dispute, a development that could hit the facility's production of the precious metal.
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Palladium has gained 57 percent this year, hitting its highest since early 2001 on Thursday at $1,072 an ounce and outstripping a buoyant year in fellow precious metal gold, up 13 percent in its biggest annual rise since 20173.
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Investors put nearly $5 billion into gold and precious metal funds in the fourth quarter of last year — a time when the stock market was in freefall mode — according to EPFR Global, a firm that tracks mutual fund data.
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Last week, U.S. PMI and capital goods data missed expectations, pressuring the dollar which slid to its weakest in two months A weaker dollar can stimulate demand for gold, making the precious metal cheaper for holders of other currencies.
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The precious metal miner said it had entered into talks with stakeholders on restructuring its gold operations following financial losses at the Beatrix 1 and Driefontein 2,6,13353,8 shafts during 2018, which could affect around 5,20 employees and 28 contractors.
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However, the precious metal was on track for its best month since January 2017, having scrambled back from sharp declines in the year due to volatility in equities and a subdued dollar, along with worries over slowing global growth.
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India's top GSP exports to the United States in 2017 included motor vehicle parts, ferro alloys, precious metal jewellery, building stone, insulated cables and wires, said business grouping the Confederation of Indian Industry, which had lobbied against the withdrawal.
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"Two great myths or crazy dreams — filling your pockets with the most precious metal and fixing your image in metal — became a reality in the mid-nineteenth century," she writes in the exhibition catalogue, co-published with RVB BOOKS.
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Gold miners benefited as the price of bullion jumped nearly 4 percent to its highest in a year as fears about financial instability, a lower dollar and U.S. Treasury yields persuaded investors to seek refuge in the precious metal.
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Even Maduro's critics acknowledge he has pulled off a neat trick of alchemy: By compensating hard-pressed citizen miners with inflation-ravaged bolivars and obtaining precious metal in return, he has found a way to spin straw into gold.
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From the house's classic Serpenti style, embellished with shiny precious metal work in snakelike twists, to clutches with mirrored lightning bolts, along with shimmering backpacks and tasseled bucket bags, it was a shameless celebration of '80s glam rock vibes.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A rally in rhodium, a precious metal used to reduce vehicle emissions, has exploded into high gear, with surging demand and an uncertain supply outlook pushing prices up 2100% in just three weeks to near record highs.
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"Amid mixed signals coming out of the lingering trade dispute between the U.S. and China, volatility is likely to remain high in the precious metal," said Sugandha Sachdeva, vice-president, metals, energy and currency research at Religare Broking Ltd.
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The precious metal sector also witnessed a sizeable deal on Monday when Saracen Mineral Holdings Ltd said it would buy Canadian-listed Barrick Gold Corp's 50% stake in the Super Pit gold mine in Western Australia for $7873 million.
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But, they did find that there were some sites where recovery of the gold could be viable, like in the refinery-rich Ticino region where concentrations of the precious metal were likely high enough to justify the extraction effort and cost.
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LONDON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Precious metal funds recorded the fourth largest weekly inflows ever and investment-grade funds sucked in money, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said on Friday, as escalating trade tensions and global growth concerns prompted a dash for .
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MUMBAI, Aug 22019 (Reuters) - India's gold demand is expected to soften in the September quarter as record high local prices dampen buying in the world's second biggest consumer of the precious metal, the World Gold Council (WGC) said on Thursday.
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Investors are eyeing crucial U.S. nonfarm payrolls data due later in the day, where a strong reading for February could stall further gains in the precious metal, now up nearly 950.103 percent this year and among the top commodity performers.
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LONDON (Reuters) - From a sculpture of model Kate Moss to an elaborate elephant liqueur set, an array of items made with gold will go under the hammer next week in auction house Sotheby's first ever sale dedicated to the precious metal.
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The Group is one of the largest companies in Japan in terms of volumes of precious metals handled, and it holds the world's largest market share for many products including bonding wire, precious metal clad materials, and cadmium-free rivet contacts.
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According to Chris Burniske, a blockchain analyst and products lead at investment manager ARK Invest, the cryptocurrency could be referred to as digital gold, as it shares many of the characteristics that makes the precious metal a great store of value.
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NEW YORK, Jan 263 (Reuters) - U.S. imports of gold jewelry rose to a seven-year high in October while platinum jewelry imports surged by more than 22014 percent after precious metal prices fell to multiyear lows, Thomson Reuters GFMS calculations showed.
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Weaker dollar, falling yields and tensions in the Middle East have lifted the precious metal by nearly 4% so far this week - its biggest since the week ended April 22020, 21, and also set for a fifth consecutive weekly rise.
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The Paradas and Getler say the government contractor's scan detected a much larger quantity of precious metal — 7 to 9 tons — an eye-popping haul that could be worth more than $250 million if every ounce of it was gold.
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Both "demonetisation" - removing higher currency bills from circulation - and a new national goods and services tax (GST) are expected to have a marked impact on the gold jewellery industry in India, the world's second-biggest consumer of the precious metal.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The price of rhodium, a precious metal used to curb harmful emissions from vehicle engines, has rocketed to its highest since 2008 as tightening environmental regulation compels auto makers to buy more just as supply looks set to stagnate.
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On the major physical gold markets, the precious metal was sold at a discount to spot prices in India this week for the first time in six weeks, while demand elsewhere in Asia remained subdued as surging bullion prices deterred buyers.
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Canada's main stock index fell on Friday, the most in four months, as financial and energy stocks slid after Britain voted to leave the bloc, while the resulting market turmoil boosted gold miners as demand for the precious metal surged.
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"We do expect gold to hit some turbulence as we approach the June Fed rate hike, but things could open up for the precious metal post-meeting if the central bank's language remains dovish," said INTL FCStone analyst Edward Meir.
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India last week announced tariff hikes on several electronic items and communication devices, in a bid to rein in imports and bolster a weak rupee, but did not levy additional duties on gold to prevent increased smuggling of the precious metal.
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Precious metal palladium, used in things like car catalytic convertors, topped the $1,600 an ounce mark for the first time as news that Russia is planning to ban exports of precious metals scrap fuelled concerns over an already supply-constrained market.
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Other gold miners also rose as prices for the precious metal rose to an almost three-week high on Tuesday, lifted by the U.S. dollar's retreat from multi-month highs and stronger physical demand before India's late-October festival season.
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The unfolding events at Zondereinde will be watched closely by the wider mining industry and investors concerned about the impact of the rivalry between the AMCU and NUM on South Africa's platinum belt, the world's richest reserves of the precious metal.
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Higher gold imports by India, the world's second-biggest consumer of the precious metal, could support global prices that are trading near their highest level in three months, but could widen the country's trade deficit and put pressure on rupee.
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Gold slipped on Tuesday as risk appetite revived in global financial markets, lifting equities, but the precious metal was not far off a six-week high hit overnight as investors remained cautious over political tensions between Russia and the West.
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At a time when the financial uncertainty of the Great Recession made gold a hot investment, Bin Laden turns out to have been as bullish about the precious metal as any Ron Paul devotee, Tea Party patriot or Wall Street financier.
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Weaker dollar, falling yields and tensions in the Middle East have lifted the precious metal by nearly 4% so far this week - its biggest since the week ended April 22020, 21, and also set for a fifth consecutive weekly rise.
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The metal smelters in this ore-rich region produce copious amounts of copper, one-fifth of the world's nickel — a key alloy in stainless steel — and half of the global supply of palladium, a precious metal nearly as valuable as platinum.
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Benchmark spot gold prices continued to trade below U.S. gold futures in a sign that the market is worried air travel restrictions and precious metal refinery closures will hamper shipments of bullion to the United States to meet contractual requirements.
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However, Currie highlighted that the precious metal could have further upside potential, with spikes in geopolitical tensions historically leading to higher gold prices when they are severe enough to cause currency debasement, most often seen during wars or military escalations.
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Gold prices rose half a percent on Friday as the dollar labored near a three-year low amid heightened fears of a U.S. government shutdown, but the precious metal was still on track for its first weekly drop in six.
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TORONTO, July 4 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index slipped in early trade on Tuesday as gold miners weighed despite the precious metal getting a safe-haven boost after a North Korean missile launch, while energy and financial stocks provided support.
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The precious metal was up a further 13% to trade at around $1,609.61 per troy ounce (/oz) during European morning trade on Wednesday, testing the levels last seen on January 8 after the U.S. killing of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani.
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"You have to have balance ... and I think you have to have a certain amount of gold in your portfolio," Dalio said, reiterating his call last year that the precious metal will be a top investment in the years to come.
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In a typical move for financial markets during times of uncertainty, gold on Monday rose to its highest level in over two months as investors pulled out of risky assets like oil and parked money in perceived safe havens like the precious metal.
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Much of their work is done by hand, as Fahmy has renewed some of the ancient techniques of Egyptian jewelry-making: hand piercing and stone setting, and filigree, which involves placing tiny wires and beads onto a backing of the same precious metal.
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Precious metal funds recorded the fourth-largest inflows ever in the week to Wednesday and investment-grade funds sucked in money, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said on Friday, as rising trade tensions and global growth concerns prompted a dash for safe havens.
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"Even in the event of a rate increase, we doubt the precious metal will lose much ground ahead of the key presidential elections in France in April, coupled with the Washington gridlock that seems to be calcifying," INTL FCStone analyst Edward Meir said.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - A hike in taxes on gold sales in India could stoke under-the-counter buying and drive up appetite for precious metal smuggled into the country, where millions of people store big chunks of their wealth in bullion and jewelry.
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Gold was little changed on Wednesday in the wake of minutes from the latest U.S. Federal Reserve meeting, but the precious metal was trading above the two-week low hit in the last session as stock markets slid on fresh trade tensions.
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A slew of bullish bets on gold were announced following the shock result of the U.K.'s referendum on its EU membership, but one investment bank has just given an even more generous prediction for the future price of the precious metal.
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Analysts say the rally in the precious metal, which has taken it close to a key technical challenge, could get another push higher if it looks like the Fed will stay on hold due to soft U.S. data or international conditions, or both.
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The supply of the precious metal will fall short of demand by 520,000 ounces by the end of 2016, as mining supply falls 3 percent and recycling rates slow, the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) warned in its quarterly report released this week.
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More purchases by the world's sixth largest official sector gold holder could lend support to international prices of the precious metal, which are currently near nine-week highs amid a global stock market rout, worries over the Chinese economy and heightened geopolitical tensions.
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Exports of Swiss timepieces were down 16.4 percent in nominal terms in October, their steepest fall this year, dragged down by shipments of precious metal watches that have fallen out of favour with Chinese shoppers since the Chinese government took anti-graft measures.
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Furthermore, with prices of many commodities at depressed levels, it is "unusual for the gold price to persistently diverge from the trend in the broader commodities market" as prices of the precious metal tend to move largely in sync with other metals.
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The number of platinum miners employed in South Africa, the world's largest producer of the precious metal, has fallen from a peak of almost 221,22 in 244 to 227.2,20143 in the face of depressed prices and soaring costs, fuelling labor and social unrest.
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Gold stocks also rose for a third straight session, after the precious metal jumped to an over eight-month high on Tuesday, fueled by concerns about U.S.-China trade relations and the prospect of a pause in the Federal reserve's rate hikes.
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Since 18-karat gold has low hardness, Apple has an idea for hardening the precious metal into a crystalline form by mixing it with other metals and putting it through a special process of mixing, rolling, heating, cooling and aging the metal.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge said gold investors may pursue much of their lawsuit accusing four major banks of conspiring for a decade to fix prices and exploit distortions at the expense of investors in global markets for the precious metal.
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In the first quarter, Soros, who once called gold "the ultimate bubble," resumed buying the precious metal after a three-year hiatus, adding 1.05 million shares in SPDR Gold Trust, the world's biggest gold exchanged-traded fund, valued at about $123.5 million.
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The two main risks for the gold outlook for 21 are what actually happens in the presidency of Donald Trump and how the demonetization of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi plays out in the world's second-largest consumer of the precious metal.
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Gold edged higher on Thursday as the dollar eased off a six-month high against the Japanese yen, but bullion failed to gain traction as traders said U.S.-China trade tensions so far were boosting the U.S. currency instead of the precious metal.
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