Sentence examples for precious metal commodity from inspiring English sources

Platinum is a precious metal commodity; its bullion has the ISO currency code of XPT.

Because of its scarcity in Earth's crust, only a few hundred tonnes are produced annually, so, given its important uses, it is highly valuable and is a major precious metal commodity.

All this is a recipe for a weaker currency and stronger precious metals and commodity prices.

Brajesh and Kumar (2009 ) examined the relationship between future trading activity and spot price volatility for different commodity groups, such as agricultural, metal, precious metal, and energy commodities in the perspective of the Indian commodity derivatives market.

His father is the director of trading at CPM Group, a precious metals and commodities consulting and asset management company in New York.

Normally precious metals have a commodity price per gramme which pawn shops pay.

Silver miner Fresnillo was the big victim of the commodity falls as the precious metal fell to $34.50 an ounce.

"When the oil markets weakens, it tends to stop the vigor in precious metals," James Steel, a commodities analyst at HSBC, said.

That two such successful investors should take such wildly differing views on the price of gold underlines how much uncertainty surrounds the prices of precious metals and other commodities, at least in the short term.

The prices of precious metals and other commodities, an early indication of inflation, are already in a bull-market phase.

The colony was established to thwart French Protestant colonization efforts in the lower Atlantic and to protect shipping lanes for the transfer of precious metals and other commodities back to Europe (Bennett 2001; Lyon 1990; Milanich 1999).