With the US debt bubble still firmly in place, Dietrich says investors should expect oil, commodities, gold and precious metal prices to rise again later this fall after taking a breather over the summer.

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Yet the show does not peak until shadows fall and Gnawa musicians start playing their metal qarqaba (castanets), duff (hand drums) and twanging three-stringed ginbri (bass).

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It comes as the group reported a 58% fall in half-year net profit, knocked by weaker metal prices.

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Sandwell was the area most affected by metal theft in the West Midlands in early 2011, and has seen recorded offences fall by 55.4% since spring last year, the force said.

BBC: Stolen plaque broken into pieces

The price fall corresponds with a rise in the aluminum stockpile kept by the London Metal Exchange (LME) which was sitting close to a five-year high of 519, 000 tons in mid-February, but which has since slipped marginally to 517, 000 tons, indicating the that Chinese stockpile buying might have started when LME warehouses levels were approaching a peak.

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Despite the fall, Katri Link from Ecclesiastical Insurance said it was still "hugely depressing" that metal thieves had no respect or regard for sacred buildings.

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But now I let my arm fall to the side of my cot, and I touched with my fingers the cold metal of the carbine cradled in its rack above the flooring.

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Not surprisingly, reports of the test-firing have reignited calls to ban 3-D-printed guns, which critics fear could easily fall into the wrong hands and create safety concerns because they'd be invisible to metal detectors.

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Put simply, a fall in the price of gold signals a strengthening dollar, and a rise in the yellow metal signals a weakening one.

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