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BIZARRE: 5 - What They Never Told You

Platinum is a rare precious metal with significant industrial applications, but over the past years, that has not helped the price. While gold and palladium rose to all-time highs in 2022, platinum could not manage a rally to anywhere near the 2008 record peak. After attempting to move above the…

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Don't Miss Out: Why You Should Buy Gold Now

Gold put in a double-top on the long-term chart in May 2023, leading to a correction. Gold is a hybrid asset, part commodity, and part financial instrument. Therefore, gold tends to be far less volatile than other commodities.

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Is Silver Setting Up for an Explosive Move Higher?

Silver’s price rallied from below $22.50 to above $25 per ounce from late June through late July before falling. Below the $24 level. Silver is the most speculative precious metal because of its per-ounce price and penchant for volatility, resulting in significant percentage moves when it moves into a bearish…

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Why Now is Good Time for Investors to Scoop Up Copper

Copper has been consolidating between $3.50 and $4.00 per pound since late April 2023. At just over $3.85 per pound on July 13, now could be the perfect time to begin buying copper as the prospects for higher prices remain compelling.

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Why Investors Should Consider Buying Gold Now

Gold was the best-performing precious metal in Q2 and over the first six months of 2023. The rare metal fell 2.01% in Q2 but was still 5.65% higher than the 2022 closing price on June 30. Gold remains in a long-term bull market, and the prospects are for higher highs…

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Is Now a Good Time to Buy the Dip in Precious Metals?

The precious metals sector includes the rare commodities trading on the CME’s COMEX and NYMEX divisions. Gold and silver are the most liquid metals and trade on the COMEX. Platinum and palladium are industrial and precious metals that trade on the NYMEX.

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Should Investors be Buying the Dip in Base Metals in Q3 2023?

The base metals sector includes copper, aluminum, nickel, lead, zinc, and tin, the nonferrous metals that trade on the London Metals Exchange. While the CME’s COMEX division offers a liquid copper futures contract, the LME is the world’s leading base metals exchange. In Q2, base metals prices declined.

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Base Metals in Q2 and Beyond- Dips to Buy?

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Gold – Stability and Fungibility Support the Precious Metal

The continuous gold futures prices reached the same record $2,072 per ounce high in May 2023 as in March 2022. The most recent peak triggered a correction that took gold below the $2,000 level, which has become a pivot point on the medium-term chart.

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Silver Stalls- A Buying Opportunity?

Silver prices ran out of upside steam at over $26 per ounce, and the price fell to the $23 level. Silver is a volatile precious metal that follows gold, but it tends to outperform on the upside and underperform on the downside on a percentage basis. Over the past months,…

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A Mining Legend Says Copper is in the Buy Zone

Copper prices continue to make lower lows after reaching a record $5.01 per pound high in March 2022. The copper market’s technical trend remains bearish, but fundamentals do not support the red metal’s current path of least resistance.

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Copper Update - Pretty Fundamentals and Ugly Technicals

Fundamental supply and demand analysis finds support from technical analysis; the case for higher or lower prices can be compelling. It creates market confusion when they diverge, leading to sudden and potentially violent price volatility. Copper’s fundamentals remain bullish, but the technical picture has turned ugly.

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Is Gold on a Launchpad?

Gold was sitting above the $2,000 per ounce level on the nearby COMEX futures contract on May 5, 2023. Gold is the world’s oldest currency, and profound changes in the global financial system could mean an explosive move in the precious metal as the only thing governments agree on is…

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After Reaching a One-Year High, is Silver Ready for Explosive Gains?

Silver can be the most volatile precious metal as it attracts speculative and trend-following interest on the up and downside. Silver has long been gold’s sibling, and the yellow metal rose to a new record high this week. An explosive rally in silver could be on the immediate horizon.

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Has Palladium Found a Bottom?

Palladium is the least liquid precious metal trading in the futures market. Palladium prices fell steadily from March 2022 through March 2023 but may have found a significant bottom after the one-year price correction that took the metal over 60% lower from the record high.

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Copper Falls Below $4 per Pound

Many market participants remain bullish on the prospects for copper prices as Goldman Sachs and other analysts continue to call the red industrial metal the new crude oil. Copper is a critical input in green energy initiatives, boosting demand in an environment where inventories have declined, and new production will…

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How High Can Silver Rise?

Silver is the most speculative precious metal. Gold and silver have a long history as financial assets, but few governments consider silver a reserve asset. Meanwhile, silver is an industrial and precious metal that tends to outperform gold on a percentage basis on rallies and underperforms during bearish periods. In…

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Q1 2023 and Beyond- Base Metals

The base metals sector of the commodities market includes copper, aluminum, nickel, lead, zinc, and tin forwards that trade on the London Metals Exchange and copper futures that trade on the CME’s COME division. The base metals and industrial commodities sector declined in Q1 2023.

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Base Metals- Q1 2023 and Beyond

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Q1 2023 and Beyond- Precious Metals

The precious metals sector of the commodities market includes gold, silver, platinum, and palladium contracts that trade on the CME’s COMEX and NYMEX divisions. The precious metal sector fell in Q1 2023 with gains in gold and silver and significant declines in the palladium and platinum futures markets.

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Is A Copper Rally on the Horizon?

Copper is sitting in the middle of its trading range since March 2022. At just under $4 per pound, the price had consolidated throughout Q1 2023. The red nonferrous metals with increasing demand and applications could be on a launchpad to the upside to another in a long series of…

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Embattled French football chief Le Graët continues fight to retain power

Noël Le Graët, French football's most powerful administrator, continued his rearguard action on Thursday to remain in his job despite a government audit damning his sleazy late-night texts to female employees, lax management and cronyism.

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Top French football federation executives roasted in leaked government audit

French football's most powerful executives – including federation boss Noël Le Graët – have been given two weeks to respond to a raft of allegations that the outfit overseeing the sport in the country has been a cesspool of expletives, ritual humiliations, vulgar sexist insults and cronyism.

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