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Cut to Platinum Production Hits Stillwater Mining and ETF Shares

Posted: May 10, 2013 at 1:07 pm

South Africa’s Anglo American Platinum Ltd. (known as Amplats), the world’s largest platinum miner and a division of Anglo American plc, said today that it plans to reduce production by ...
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Lower Platinum Supply, Higher Prices in Store

Posted: February 5, 2013 at 12:19 pm

The price of platinum is expected to average about $1,770 an ounce in 2013, its highest price since 2011. The price spike is due almost entirely to the closure of ...
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Platinum Not Likely to Continue Challenging Gold Price

Posted: January 22, 2013 at 12:04 pm

Platinum prices jumped last week following an announcement from Anglo American plc that it would shut down several of its South African mines, ultimately removing about 400,000 ounces of the ...
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Commodities Watch: Margin Increases, Possible Flooding Hit Crude; Growers, Traders Watching the Weather; Platinum Forecast at $1,925 in 2011 (CME, SWC, PPLT, PGM)

Posted: May 10, 2011 at 3:15 pm

Today's commodities news starts with a rise in margin requirements on crude oil contracts, and then looks at weather effects on both crude oil refining and US grain prices. We ...
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Gold Trends Versus Platinum and Palladium (GLD, PPLT, PALL, PLTM, PGM, PTM)

Posted: August 18, 2010 at 12:00 pm

The relationship between gold and platinum has been a tenuous one.  When things got really bad in 2008 platinum lost its longstanding premium to the shiny yellow stuff.  The market ...
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Physical Platinum & Palladium ETFs Launch (PPLT, PALL, GLD, SGOL, SIVR, SWC, PAL, PTM, PGM)

Posted: January 8, 2010 at 11:50 am

Your wait for the platinum and palladium ETF products is over.  Today marked the launch of the ETFS Physical Platinum Shares (NYSE: PPLT) and ETFS Physical Palladium Shares (NYSE: PALL).  ...
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Speculators Run Platinum & Palladium Plays Ahead of ETF Launch (GLD, SGOL, PTM, PGM, SWC, PAL)

Posted: January 6, 2010 at 2:29 pm

If you have ever wondered just how much exchange traded funds and exchange traded notes can run a market, you can forget about wondering how much the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: ...
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Metals ETN/ETF Launch: Tin, Platinum, Lead, Aluminum, Precious Metals (NYX, JJT, PGM, LD, JJU, JJP)

Posted: June 25, 2008 at 10:32 am

NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) today announced the launch of many new Barclays iPath®Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) on NYSE Arca.  Here are the new ones that launched for metals trading:iPath®Dow Jones-AIG ...
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