metal
Example Sentences
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After volatile recent days, following record highs for silver, precious metals started the new year on a bright note with gold up 0.64 percent per ounce and silver 1.5 percent shinier.
From Barron's
Geopolitical risks continue to provide strong safe-haven demand, underpinning the precious metal, the CEO and asset manager adds.
"Heavy metal football this is not - it's not even aluminium foil football."
From BBC
And they made their presence known just about everywhere else, from precious metals and sporting-event prediction contracts to public stock offerings and late-stage startup investments.
The wild trading wraps up what has otherwise been a bumper year for metals markets.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.