Sentence examples for gold contracts from inspiring English sources

Four copper and gold contracts are being tendered, and contracts for rare earth metals could be offered soon.

They are also losing money when they turn over their gold contracts, and returns on other metals are falling.

But Ms. Jacobovits, the Nymex spokeswoman, said that fewer than 1percentt of the gold contracts traded on the exchange involved the exchange of the metal.

Finally, after a joint resolution of Congress, Roosevelt ordered the repudiation of private and public contracts denominated in gold — contracts designed specifically to get around the danger of government repudiation.

A gold exchange-traded fund (ETF) known as SPDR recently became the largest ETF by value in the world.When markets tumbled and investors needed to raise cash, gold was the natural asset to sell, especially after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange raised the margin requirement for gold contracts.

The biggest impact, he said, might be a slight premium on the price of gold contracts near their delivery time on Nymex compared with the ones traded in London, where the gold depositories have not been buried under tons of rubble.

The November gold contract traded as low as $376.10 an ounce during the session.

The February gold contract jumped $5.30, to $306.00, the highest since mid-November.

The price of the gold contract for delivery in April gained $23.10, to $313 a troy ounce.

The late profit taking was prompted by news that King Hussein of Jordan was carrying a message from President Saddam Hussein of Iraq to President Bush, and by a decline in buying interest as the December gold contract neared $425 an ounce.

Gold futures settled $8.60 to $9.10 higher, with the contract for delivery in January at $394 a troy ounce, the highest settlement of a near-month gold contract since Oct. 8. Silver futures were 9 cents to 9.9 cents higher, with January at $4.19 a troy ounce.