The boom in Yellow Pages ads was on in the mid-1990s.

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However, at mid-morning U.S. trading the yellow metal slumped further when the U.S. dollar index moved above unchanged and to its daily high.

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Since mid-July, the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF is up more than 26%, outperforming the yellow metal itself.

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