Copper saw a price drop and also saw speculators slice net-long positions accordingly.
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This may be bad news to many urban pundits and big city speculators, but it also should create new opportunities for more perceptive, and less jaded, investors.
The magnitude and co-ordination of the package is also designed to signal to financial speculators that governments will do what it takes to protect the eurozone and its currency.
The net length of large speculators also fell for silver, platinum and copper.
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It's also crucial to remember that bad loans that plagued speculators and unprepared borrowers don't simply disappear when distressed owners sell their properties.
Speculators were also buyers again of the platinum group metals in both the legacy and disaggregated weekly commitment of traders reports from the CFTC, for the week ended June 19.
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He has also boasted of Malaysia's attractiveness to direct investors, even as he has excoriated speculators and western economic imperialism.
In the weekly commitments of traders data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, speculators continued to add to long positions not only in gold, but also in silver and the platinum group metals when looking at data for futures and options combined.
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The platinum group metals also saw an increase in managed-money accounts net-long position as speculators added gross longs and cut shorts.
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Therefore, not only do these speculators need the underlying to move in the right direction and within a certain time frame, but also by more than other option players are predicting.
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