Sentences with phrase «falling metals prices»

LONDON, April 25 (Reuters)- Worries over rising bond yields and falling metals prices trumped well - received earnings updates from Kering and Credit Suisse on Wednesday, sending European shares to a one - week low.

[NB: Falling metal prices aren't necessarily a direct risk for metals recycling, as the business is structured to hedge / pass along market - based pricing.

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However, if the economy improves the metal's price can fall dramatically.

Basic resources jumped 1.22 percent as a sector, supported by an uptick in metal prices, while oil stocks fell as investors doubt that the recent rally in prices will last.

LONDON, April 20 - Aluminium prices fell on Friday for a second day as a rally sparked by U.S. sanctions against Russia's Rusal, the world's second - biggest producer, appeared to stall, but the metal was still on track to end the week up 7.5 percent.

Gold has regained its shine in recent months, but that doesn't change the dull outlook for the precious metal over the longer - term, warns Goldman Sachs, which sees prices falling to $ 1,000 in 12 months as the Federal Reserve normalizes monetary policy.

Plus, because the company's wires are made of metal, the prices it can sell them for are also tied to the market price of copper and aluminum, which have fallen steeply since 2011.

The falls were led by basic resources stocks, down 2.5 percent, amid a slide in metal prices.

Safe - haven investments suffered: in the metal markets, silver prices tumbled more than 6 %, marking their biggest loss since late 2008, and gold fell more than 2 %, off a record high.

Prices for metals like copper, of which China is a major buyer, fell to six - year lows during the past two days.

The nation's biggest aluminum producer will split into two publicly traded companies as it tries to deal with an oversupply of the metal and falling prices.

Surging mining stocks and a fall in the pound boosted Britain's FTSE 100 on Wednesday, with metals prices climbing on supply concerns and data showing an unexpected dip in inflation.

In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy chaMetal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy chametal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

Australia's S&P / ASX 200 slipped 1.2 percent to 4,262.30 after falling prices for metals hurt mining shares.

Meanwhile, flat gold prices weren't enough to keep Direxion Daily Junior Gold Miners Bull 3X ETF (NYSEMKT: JNUG)-- a volatile, leveraged bullish bet on the precious metal — from falling 5 %.

Adjusted net earnings for the quarter fell to $ 238 million from $ 923 million in the same quarter a year ago primarily due to lower metal prices and lower gold sales volumes.

Continued strong gains in rural commodity prices underpinned the strength in the June quarter, while the base metals index fell for the first time since early 1999.

Data from sources such as the Metals Economics Group (MEG) in Canada and Price Water house Coopers suggest that global spending on exploration has been relatively weak in recent years, following a sharp fall in the late 1990s.

While rural and base metals prices were broadly unchanged over the three months to January, the prices of «other resources» fell modestly (Graph 34).

There were increases in the prices of base metals and rural commodities of around 10 per cent and 2 1/2 per cent, respectively, which were offset by falls in the prices of gold and coal.

However, recent weeks have seen sharp falls in base metals prices in response to market concerns over the sustainability of growth in China.

Mine prices fell faster than the metal due to lack of corporate interest in deals.

The Monetary Metals Gold Fundamental Price fell $ 2 this week to $ 1,507.

Shares in mining and trading company Glencore fell almost 30 % and closed at a record low on Monday over concerns it is not doing enough to cut its debt to withstand a prolonged fall in global metals prices.

In an essay at the Monetary Metals blog headlined «Backwardation, the Bank of England, and Falling Prices» --

Although gold prices have fallen from their record highs, global economic trends — and in particular, trends in China — would indicate that the precious metal's value is poised to increase significantly.

Even as gold prices fell for the first time in 14 years in 2013, BMO Capital Markets of Montreal, Canada, advised its clients in the metals and mining industry on 17 deals worth a total of $ 6.4 billion in North America — a higher value than any other bank.

Over the past year, the price of gold fell by about 13 percent and because of this many financial experts believe 2014 will be the complete end of the yellow metal's 13 - year bull run.

In contrast to the strength of rural and base metals prices, other non-rural commodity prices have tended to fall in early 1997.

However, with stocks rising on a global scale, the price of gold has fallen inversely as it so often does, which has led to a fall in the stock price of precious metal miners.

And the report said the police could look at predictive policing depending on market prices and whether they start to rise or fall — especially in the instance of items such as metals.

Traditional commodity ETFs such as the iShares S&P GSCI Commodity - Indexed Trust (GSG) simply hold long positions in various crops, metals and energy products, and if commodity prices fall, so does the value of the fund.

Ultimately holders of GLD will demand physical metal and the physical price will rise and the paper price will fall.

Thanks to the proliferation of mutual funds, an individual can now not only invest in different «asset classes» of stocks, but also can use funds to invest in precious metals (usually metals mining companies / stocks), real estate (REITs), shorting stocks (betting that a stock or asset class will fall in price), or other non-stock assets.

That being said, certain of them — such as coins and precious metals — can rise in price right when the prices of conventional assets happen to be falling.

Following the high of 2011, with gold prices in excess of US$ 1900 / oz, copper prices in excess of US$ 10,000 / tonne and iron ore prices in excess of US$ 190 / tonne, metal prices crashed and with those prices fell some of the junior mining companies that depended on them.

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