precious metal

Example Sentences

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The precious metal has also performed poorly amid the U.S.-Iran conflict, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026

Guinea has banned the export of unrefined gold in an effort to promote domestic processing of the precious metal.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

Easing inflationary pressures would typically weigh on non-yielding assets like gold but the precious metal is supported by lingering geopolitical uncertainty and cautious investor sentiment, MUFG’s Soojin Kim writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026

But that doesn’t appear to have fazed confidence in the precious metal.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026

Groves kept his promise: the precious metal was all returned to the Treasury, though the last of it was not transferred until 1968.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik