Mint lowers boom on melting as metal rallies
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Given rising metal prices, the pennies and nickels in your pocket are worth more melted down than their face value -- and that has the government worried.
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Steel shares hit seven-year highs yesterday after Nissan said the metal is in short supply in Japan. US Steel rose $3.30, or 7%, to $51.25, while Nucor surged $2.90 to $54.05, an all-time high.
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Industrial metals bounced back from several losing sessions Tuesday as inventories declined and stock markets rose around the globe. Another drop in the U.S. dollar also lifted prices.
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Rising demand, a falling dollar and rosy economic predictions, have stoked the price of commodities in the last few years. But times are changing.
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Gold hit a 28-year high in Europe on  Friday as the dollar&#39;s continued slide to record lows versus  the euro raised the metal&#39;s appeal to speculative investors.
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Gold, benefiting from a weak dollar, peaked at $444.60 an ounce in Europe on Wednesday, and traders said the metal could rise higher still.
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Copper prices in New York fell for the second session in three on signs of slowing demand from manufacturers in China, the world&#39;s biggest buyer of the metal.
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$445.10 an ounce. While this isn&#39;t literally the highest price the yellow metal has ever fetched, it is a level we haven&#39;t seen for more than 16 years.
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Gold and platinum hit record highs for a third straight day on Tuesday and silver rallied to its highest in 27 years on Tuesday, on supply worries and expectations of more U.S. interest rate cuts.
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Gold shrugged off a tumbling U.S. dollar and fell more than 1 percent on Monday as investors cashed in on the metal's rally to its highest in nearly three decades last week.
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Gold bounced off a one-week low on Wednesday as bargain hunters swooped, but trading was seen volatile after a slide in Chinese shares triggered a global stock market sell-off.
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Gold hit a record high above $900 an ounce on Monday as turmoil in financial markets, expectations of aggressive U.S. rate cuts and a falling dollar helped raise the metal's safe-haven appeal.
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PHILADELPHIA - It looks like the U.S. Mint has struck again - or not struck again, depending on how you look at it.
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Gold hit a 28-year high on Friday as the dollar's continued slide to record lows versus the euro raised the metal's appeal to speculative investors.
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Platinum hit a record high for a third straight session Monday as investors bet that a power shortage in South Africa will tighten global supply for the metal used in jewelry and automobiles.
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Gold swept to a record high on Wednesday driven by surging oil, a weaker dollar and simmering geopolitical tension, also ushering platinum to a record peak.
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Gold surged to a historic high above $910 an ounce, as investors rushed in to buy the metal on further weakness in the dollar and expectations of a sharp cut in U.S. interest rates, analysts said.