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Metals Market News

Together in a good year the industry spends about $2 billion more than it generates in earnings and takeovers. In a bad year the industry loses $8 billion more than it generates, Rick Rule of Global Resource Investments warned, in what he termed the “price loss ratio.”

Thursday’s announcement from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce included some minor adjustments to the quotas allocated in this second batch of confirmed allocations, resulting from the subsequent inclusion of data relating to the last months of 2011.

Once every year gold and stocks form a major yearly cycle low. Commodities form a major cycle bottom every 2 1/2 to 3 years. Every once in a while all three of these major cycles hit at the same time. I'm pretty sure that's what is happening right now.

Wholesale market gold prices climbed as high as $1,594 an ounce during Friday morning's London trading, jumping 1.5% in the first two hours, while Eurozone stocks looked to have stemmed four days of losses despite Greece and Spain seeing negative ratings decisions.

Palladium bullion

The numerous applications and limited supply sources of palladium result in palladium bullion drawing considerable investment interest. Compared to the other precious metals, palladium bullin is a relatively thinly-traded commodity and as such, is typically prone to wide and volatile price swings. Plus, since about 60% of the world's supply of palladium comes from Russia, export licenses are sometimes delayed by government officials there in an attempt to influence global prices. But with such volatility comes profit opportunity as well as risk.

PALLADIUM BULLION BARS - comex/nymex/lbma certified

International Metals offers palladium in the form of pure 999.5 fine 10-ounce and 100-ounce palladium bullion bars. Each bar is produced by a leading COMEX, NYMEX or LBMA approved refiner such as Johnson Matthey or Credit Suisse and individually hallmarked to certify weight and purity.

ABOUT PALLADIUM

Palladium is a platinum group metal (PGM), along with platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium. PGMs share similar chemical properties, but palladium has the lowest melting point and is the least dense of these precious metals.

Palladium is used extensively as an industrial catalyst and is a key component in the manufacturing of automotive catalytic converters. Palladium is also utilized for fuel cells, cold fusion, solar photovoltaics and other cutting-edge technologies.

Palladium is also essential in the jewelry industry, and is one of the three most-used metals (along with nickel and silver) which can be alloyed with gold to produce "white gold." It is also used in dentistry, watch-making, and in the production of surgical instruments, electrical contacts and LCD televisions.