The U.S. dollar index is trading higher again Tuesday morning, on its own safe-haven buying demand.
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Some safe-haven buying demand for gold and silver also resurfaced amid rioting in Greece.
The U.S. dollar index traded slightly higher Tuesday, on its own safe-haven buying demand and on short covering.
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The wrangling has invited still more buying demand for the precious metals markets.
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"The high liquidity and favorable interest-rate environment remain supportive of home-buying demand, " said Colliers International property analyst Chia Siew Chuin.
Such has invited still more buying demand for the precious metals markets.
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When put demand slows, it suggests many of these managers are not in buying mode, but as put demand grows, it implies they are buying.
Advertisers and agencies in turn are getting used to buying media through demand-side platforms and exchanges where they have access to nearly unlimited amounts of inventory, where they can test cheaply and quickly, and scale greatly.
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Meanwhile, the recent pullback in gold prices has attracted physical demand and investor buying.
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Ball cited liquidity from global central banks, gold buying by central banks, demand from gold-backed exchange-traded funds and lack of producer selling.
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The market was boosted on technical buying and safe-haven demand.
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Besides wedding season demand, some buying may come during the Hindu festival of Akshaya Trithiya on May 13, which is considered one of the most auspicious festival gold-buying occasions, traders say.
Businesses will start to hire again when people start buying their stuff, and consumer demand will improve when unemployment declines.
Comex gold futures prices are modestly higher in early U.S. trading Tuesday, on safe-haven demand and technically related buying interest.
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For my outlook to change on the current market, the indices would have to stage a robust follow through day, where a sufficient inflow of demand, like institutional buying, for example, balances out all of the recent distribution we have seen.
That may be slightly bearish for the gold market as it could limit physical buying interest this week, due to demand from China slowing during its holiday season.
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So maybe are putting off buying that new bowling ball, but demand for food isn't so flexible, and it takes a lot of petroleum to make food in America.
Others, citing massive demand for its shares, recommend buying early and as much Facebook stock as possible.
Looking ahead toward 2013, Meader said he looks for stability and perhaps modest growth for jewelry demand and a rebound in industrial buying.
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Eliseo told Kitco News in an interview that ABC Bullion saw an uptick in demand, but nothing like the buying seen in Asia.
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Meanwhile, they say physical demand from the key gold-buying region of Asia is likely to pick up further, particularly considering the price drop came ahead of a key holiday period in Asia.
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While this is understandable considering that there is a wide disparity of income per capita between the two nations, as more consumers in China, or for that matter any emerging nation, see an increase in buying power as the country develops, the demand for smartphones will increase exponentially.
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The country's central bank could have kept the real steady against the dollar by buying up the currency so that supply would match demand.
But beyond Nissan and holiday bargains, automakers pushed prices higher and reduced discounts last month because of strong demand, according to the car-buying site TrueCar.com.
Like many in the gold market, Meader said price weakness in the metal could be short-lived as demand at lower levels has enticed physical buying, especially from Asia.
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Dell ( DELL - news - people ), as with the economic downturn, many people have put off buying new computers, and this pent-up demand could be unleashed next year.
"At the margin, this could reduce demand, but nobody should have been buying this stuff on the basis there wasn't a material probability of at least one junk rating at some point in the future, " Mr. McNamara said of the bond sale's postponement.
Kaplan expresses significant reservations about taking part in what is essentially a laundering operation aimed at deceiving the book-buying public into believing a title is more in-demand than it is.
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Traders, however, say that some of the buying interest seems to be waning despite the wedding season demand and the Hindu festival of Akshaya Tritiya on May 13, when it is considered auspicious to buy gold.
Buying fakes is more socially acceptable than ever before and consumer demand has fuelled the growth of counterfeiting from something like a cottage industry to a global business.
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