Benefiting the most from increasing gold price have been the miners of the precious metal.
This precious metal has global appeal and has historically been a medium of exchange.
Stocks are riding an impressive streak, but the precious metal has been going nowhere fast.
Traditionally, this precious metal has been a hedge against two evils, inflation and market uncertainty.
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Most of the value of a coin derived from the amount of precious metal in it.
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Instead of each denomination containing precious metal, only one higher-denomination coin would do so.
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Imports of the precious metal have been a major contributor to India's wide trade and current-account deficits.
Ghana, previously known as the Gold Coast, remains one of Africa's biggest producers of the precious metal.
It terms of rarity, precious metal experts have concluded that platinum is 16 times more rare than gold.
Closed-end funds are taxed as equities while precious metal ETFs are taxed as commodities at a higher rate.
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Rupert Todd a designer based at the centre prints designs in wax, which are then cast in precious metal.
In other words, we are likely to see long-term demand from these populations for gold and precious metal-related assets.
The gold rout stemmed partly from worries Cyprus and perhaps other nations may become sellers of the precious metal.
It is very diverse, we have an agriculture, base metal, precious metal and currency contract among our best traded.
This often forgotten precious metal is up an extraordinary 38 percent since January.
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Analysts say it is very unlikely that other European Union states will become big sellers of the precious metal.
Silver is caught in a Catch-22 between industrial demand versus precious metal demand.
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Despite the record highs in gold prices, hedge fund managers still like the precious metal in the intermediate term.
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The raw materials commodity index is unchanged year-over-year, with choppy charts in copper, aluminum and depressed precious metal quots.
Getting a watch with some precious metal or stones at this price range would be a sign of value.
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They presided over levels of inflation that were seldom seen when money was backed by precious metal, debasement notwithstanding.
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Gold market bulls are disappointed the Cyprus bank debacle did not offer more lasting support for the safe-haven precious metal.
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But then they would melt down the old and reissue them debauched with increasing portions of less precious metal alloys.
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Gold miners have largely abandoned hedging, choosing instead to gamble that prices of the precious metal will continue to rise.
The world's biggest platinum producer said lower demand for the precious metal and higher costs meant the shafts were unprofitable.
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India has raised import duties on gold by a half to try to rein in demand for the precious metal.
"Gold got smashed, " so investors in the precious metal are "being hurt, " said Peter Costa, president of broker-dealer Empire Executions Inc.
Do we face these daunting prospects when currency is pegged to something both finite and tangible say, a precious metal?
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Platinum also has some characteristics of a precious metal, but its primary use is industrial, specifically catalytic converters in motor vehicles.
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Lately, he has been working with palladium and his winning design is an example of his work with this precious metal.
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