Platinum hits record, palladium at 6-year high
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Platinum roared to another record  high on Monday as supply concerns persisted in main producer  South Africa, lifting sister-metal palladium to its best level  in six years.
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Leading shares touched six-year highs as a bouyant mining sector was bolstered by another record breaking session on Wall Street.
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Gold rallied to its highest level in  more than seven weeks on Monday, hovering near a record high of  $850, on a weak U.S. dollar and tensions in Pakistan after the  killing of politician Benazir Bhutto.
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Platinum hit another record high on  Monday on the back of lingering supply concerns in South  Africa, which produces four-fifths of the world's metal.
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Commodities rise to record levels on demand, dollar depreciation.
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An ounce of gold has passed $880 for the first time. Here are some questions and answers about what the metal's record high means for individual investors.
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Shares in global miner Rio Tinto Ltd./Plc.  hit a record high on Thursday as investors bet it would launch a rival bid for Canada's Alcan Ltd. , topping the $28.8 billion that Alcoa Inc. has offered.
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Steel makers in Germany expect production to rise to a new record of 47 million tonnes in 2005, beating this year's output of 46.5 million tonnes in the face of booming worldwide demand, the German steel makers' federation said.
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Gold hit another record high above $898 an ounce on Monday on speculative buying as uncertainties in financial markets and expectations of aggressive U.S. rate cuts raised the metal's safe-haven appeal.
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By Sarah Jones  Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest nickel producer, raised its offer for LionOre of Canada by almost 28 percent to 6.8 billion Canadian dollars, trumping a rival bid from Xstrata.  A.P.
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The Dow closed at a record on Tuesday, striking above the 14,000 mark for the first time, and the Nasdaq rose to a six-and-a-half-year high on a cascade of stronger-than-expected earnings.
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BHP Billiton&#39;s record-breaking profit was driven by China&#39;s seemingly insatiable demand for commodities. Picture:Bloomberg ...
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The price of platinum reached a record high point of 1,503.50 dollars an ounce on the Platinum and Palladium market on Tuesday, having breached 1,500 dollars for the first time late on Monday
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Platinum hit another record high on Monday on the back of lingering supply concerns in South Africa, which produces four-fifths of the world's metal.
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The world's biggest miner BHP Billiton reported a record first-half profit of 6.168 billion dollars, and said it expected China to continue to drive global demand for commodities.
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Gold surged to a historic high above $910 an ounce on Monday as investors rushed to buy the metal on further weakness in the dollar and expectations of a sharp cut in U.S. interest rates.
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Platinum hit another record high on Tuesday on a weaker dollar and a power crisis in South Africa which halted mining production, while silver touched a 27-year high to track firmness in gold.