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Metals Off to a Strong Start in 2012

by Stuart Burns on February 6, 2012

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A report in the FT notes the Chinese manufacturing sector has made a surprisingly strong start to the year, as the purchasing managers index (PMI), an important gauge of factory growth, rose to 50.5 in January from 50.3 a month earlier. The result helped underpin recent strength in metals prices, Standard Bank wrote in a [...]

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Hedge Funds Take a Beating

by Stuart Burns on February 2, 2012

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Have you ever felt bad about that fixed-price metals contract you placed, only to find a month later the price had dropped? Or had trouble explaining to the VP of purchasing why you didn’t place a resting order last month when this month the metals price jumped 10 percent? Don’t worry, predicting metals prices is [...]

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