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By Debarati Roy and Nicholas Larkin |
February 6, 2013
Platinum rose to a 16-month high on concern that supplies will fall from South Africa, which accounts for about 73 percent of global output.
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By Stephen Kirkland and Sarah Pringle, Bloomberg |
January 29, 2013
U.S. stocks rose on better-than- forecast earnings from companies including Pfizer Inc. and Valero Energy Corp., returning benchmark indexes to five-year highs.
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By Phil Flynn |
January 15, 2013
Chicago Fed President Charles Evans and cold weather boosted the petroleum markets. The sector is being led by European gas oil which is driving heating oil higher.
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By Ian Sayson and Victoria Stilwell, Bloomberg |
January 2, 2013
Developing-nation stocks rose to a 10-month high after U.S. lawmakers passed a bill that averted spending cuts and tax gains that had threatened the world’s largest economy.
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By Lu Wang and Susanne Walker, Bloomberg |
December 5, 2012
U.S. stocks rose amid optimism lawmakers will reach a budget agreement before the end of the year to avoid automatic spending cuts and tax increases.
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By Namitha Jagadeesh, Bloomberg |
September 26, 2012
U.K. stocks declined the most in three weeks as Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Charles Plosser said a third round of bond buying may not boost growth or hiring
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By Jon Nadler |
September 21, 2012
Some of the Fed-induced euphoria that became manifest one week ago dissipated during the course of this week as market participants were left with an environment wherein Fedspectations can now be considered as being off the table.
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By Nicholas Larkin, Bloomberg |
May 29, 2012
The first drop in platinum mine supply in four years and record car sales, the biggest source of demand, are reducing a surplus of the metal and shoring up prices on the brink of a bear market.
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By Matt Craze, Bloomberg |
April 25, 2012
The biggest-ever pipeline of copper projects is under threat as Chile, the world’s top producer, struggles to contain rising opposition to new power plants.