Experts at Ux Consulting (UxC), which produces what has become the industry standard price index for uranium, noted that while underlying fundamentals remain strong, financial speculation and the possible dumping of supplies into the market could keep prices for the yellow metal suppressed in the short to medium run. (Read Uranium and Nuclear Stocks Feel The Shock Waves Of Fukishima Meltdown).
Egypt's main stockmarket index has sunk by a third since January, and a crash in property values, after an orgy ofspeculation in the mid-1990s, has landed banks with substantial bad debts.