Corn futures have already hit record high prices because of US weather problems.
In a daily research note Wednesday, Barclays Capital estimated that silver-coin demand globally hit a record high of 3, 800 metric tons in 2011, while U.S. sales hit a record high of 1, 240 tons.
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In NYSE Nokia short interest has hit 8.3%, and in Helsinki Nokia short interest has also hit record high 12.15% (this number only counted with investors with over 0.5% of short positions, below 0.5% not listed because of EU law).
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Platinum net length rose to a seven-week high and palladium net length hit a record high.
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The Karachi stock exchange hit a record high on the expectation of a Sharif-led government.
On July 8, the Karachi Stock Exchange hit a record high, after years in the doldrums.
The U.S. trade gap with the world's second-largest economy hit another record high last year.
Odd, then, that Shell shares hit a record high in the days after the Prudhoe Bay news.
Unemployment in the single currency bloc hit a record high in January and February, at 12 percent.
Volkswagen says its group sales hit a record high last year despite slowing sales in Western Europe.
At the same time, the cost of insuring against a Portuguese sovereign default has hit another record high.
Despite the flooding, the 30-share benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange hit a record high on Tuesday.
Elsewhere, new-home sales increased in April and topped expectations, while prices hit a record high, according to the Commerce Department.
On Monday, the cost of insuring 10 million euros of Greek government debt hit a record high of 3.95 million euros.
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But the survey has been published as the latest workforce census showed that NHS staffing levels have hit a record high.
In other news, reports said the price of spot gold in India hit a record high Thursday, basis the Indian rupee currency.
The Los Angeles Times wrote that while gold hit a record high on Friday, some investors think that it will go even higher.
By the end of 2010, the U.S. real estate default rate will hit a record high, with approximately 3 million households receiving foreclosure notices.
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China's rising sea levels hit a record high in 2012 due to global warming and land subsidence, threatening millions of coastal residents, reports China Daily.
Revenue hit a record high even though gold-mining output was down from the year-ago quarter due to factors such as mine sequencing and lower ore grades in certain mines.
The number of prescriptions for anti-depressants hit a record high of more than 31 million in England in 2006 - even though official guidance stresses they should not be a first line treatment for mild depression.
Gold bottomed in this region in September and December 2011 and then again in May of last year, and the yellow metal has been no lower ever since it hit its record high in the early part of September 2011.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose for a tenth straight day to hit a record high of 14, 530 Thursday -- matching a winning streak in 1996 -- as investors continue to be buoyed by the Feds quantitative easing program.
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Though Germany's DAX hit another record high, Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average was the standout, surging 3.6 percent to 14, 180.24 on its first day of trading following the Golden Week holiday that's the first time the Nikkei has breached the 14, 000 mark since June 2008.
Thus the announcement last week that corporate profits hit a record high in the third quarter was good news it means that American businesses, despite the downturn in their revenues, found ways to remain sustainable and to continue to generate seed capital for the industries of the future.
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Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record high in 2011, the World Meteorological Organization has said.
Recently, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record high in 2011.
On Tuesday, the Dow Jones Transportation Index hit its own record high, which "absolutely" confirms to Mr. Saut and other believers in so-called Dow Theory that stocks still have room to climb, he said.
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