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By Austin Kiddle |
May 15, 2013
Bubble talks about bonds and stocks have surfaced as have the concerns that the Fed will taper off its QE program sooner than expected. Strength in physical gold demand has countered the gold-backed ETF outflows.
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By Sholom Sanik |
May 15, 2013
Copper prices fell to a two-year low earlier this month. The other London-traded base metals followed a similar pattern. In what we view as merely extremely oversold conditions, copper staged a mighty 10% rally.
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By Stephen Kirkland and Nikolaj Gammeltoft, Bloomberg |
May 14, 2013
U.S. stocks rose, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to a record for the eighth time in nine days, amid improving confidence in the world’s largest economy. Industrial metals fell on concern about China’s growth.
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By Joe Richter and Debarati Roy, Bloomberg |
May 14, 2013
Consumers will sell the least used gold in five years after prices tumbled into a bear market, curbing a source of metal that typically accounts for about one in every three ounces of global supply.
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By Stephen Kirkland and Nikolaj Gammeltoft, Bloomberg |
May 14, 2013
U.S. stocks rose, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to a record for the eighth time in nine days, amid improving confidence in the largest economy. Industrial metals retreated on concern about China’s growth.
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By Swansy Afonso, Bloomberg |
May 13, 2013
Gold imports by India, the world’s biggest consumer, may soar this quarter as a plunge in prices spurs demand for jewelry, coins and bars during the country’s biggest bullion festival, a jewelers’ group said.
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By Elizabeth Campbell, Bloomberg |
May 13, 2013
Hedge funds increased bets on lower gold prices after investors pulled a record $20.8 billion from bullion funds this year while BlackRock Inc., the world’s biggest money manager, said it’s still bullish.
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By Alasdair Macleod |
May 10, 2013
Attention is now firmly focused on Chinese and Indian demand for gold, which between them is absorbing all non-Asian mine supply. Chinese net purchases of gold totaled 320.54 tonnes in the first quarter 2013.
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By Austin Kiddle |
May 10, 2013
During the week ending May 9, the gold-backed ETP holdings rebounded 0.1% to 2,241.708 metric tons, the first rise since the beginning of April. In India, gold imports will likely top 100 tonnes in May.
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By Christine Buurma, Bloomberg |
May 9, 2013
Natural gas, the worst-performing and most volatile commodity of the past decade amid a glut in supply, is replacing gold as a haven for commodity investors as the metal slumps.
