• Gold prices rise 2 percent

    30/06/2012

    Gold prices rose 2 per cent on its way to record the best performance since the sixth of January with high assets, after European Union leaders signed an agreement to strengthen the banks and cut borrowing costs to Spain and Italy. And prices for the euro, stocks and industrial commodities such as oil and the spot price of gold went up 1.9 per cent to 1580.50 dollars per ounce, while gold futures rose U.S. delivery on August 30.70 dollars an ounce to 1581.20 dollars.
     
     Among other precious metals silver rose 1.8 per cent to 26.82 dollars an ounce, and platinum rose 1.5 per cent to 1404.75 dollars an ounce, while palladium offers 1.2 per cent to 567.57 an ounce.

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