One Italian company, Fope, developed a process that combines silver with palladium, which it calls Silverfope, for a line of luxury bangles (pictured left).

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Meanwhile, the net length of these accounts also fell for palladium, but rose for silver, copper and platinum.

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As of late morning in New York, all four of the precious metals and all six of the base metals were sharply lower, with losses around 1.5% or more for silver, platinum, palladium, copper, nickel and tin.

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Besides wondering what to expect in the way of future prices, participants will be looking for guidance on what this might mean for physical demand, as well as the outlook for industrial demand, especially for the more industrial precious metals such as silver, platinum and palladium.

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Fill up this bag with a sheet of tin, a few grains of gold, a gram of silver, some plywood, a pork belly and some palladium.

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Platinum and palladium prices are up on a percentage basis this morning more than gold and silver.

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The large-spec net long also fell for silver, but increased slightly for the industrially oriented precious metals of platinum and palladium.

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