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Gold Bullion jumped above $1500 per ounce in London on Wednesday, setting new Dollar and Sterling highs but falling sharply against the Euro as the single currency rose to its highest level since 2009.

U.S. stock markets gained for the first time in four days on Tuesday as stronger-than-expected report on new home starts and encouraging quarterly results from Johnson & Johnson helped lift the markets.

U.S. stocks rose Tuesday, clawing back some of the previous day's losses as positive earnings news helped buoy shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 65.16 points, or 0.53%, to finish near the day's highs at 12266.75. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index added 7.48 points, or 0.57%, to 1312.62 while the Nasdaq Composite gained 9.59 points, or 0.35%, to 2744.97. The gains came one day after the Dow fell 140 points on credit-ratings firm Standard & Poor's decision to lower its ...

U.S. stocks advanced on Tuesday as stronger-than-expected report on new home starts and encouraging quarterly results from Johnson & Johnson buoyed sentiment.

U.S. stocks advanced in early trade on Tuesday, following better-than-expected housing data and encouraging quarterly results from Goldman Sachs and Johnson & Johnson.

[Selling silver short] natural with these giddy prices, one London trader told the Platts news service on Monday. Speculators are going to have to take profits soon. Shorts have been burned in the run-up, but keep coming back for more, he said, forecasting a $10 drop in the Silver Price short term.

Gold jumps to new record highs over $1480 US dollar per ounce on Friday as Asian demand is unstoppable. Silver is holding near its earlier 31-year high at $42.64.

Prices to Buy Silver and gold jumped at the start of Asian trade on Friday, hitting new 31-year and all-time Dollar records respectively, as Beijing reported a surge in China's growth and inflation rates.

U.S. stocks ended lower on Tuesday as Alcoa sales missed estimates and energy stocks declined as oil prices plunged more than 3 percent. Futures on major U.S. stock indices point to higher opening on Wednesday ahead of economic data including retail sales.

Investors retreated from stocks, oil and other risky assets as a worsening nuclear situation in Japan and a lackluster start to the U.S.'s corporate earnings season cast doubt over the global economic recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 117.53 points, or 0.95%, to 12263.58, while the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index lost 10.30 points, or 0.78%, at 1314.16, and the Nasdaq Composite fell 26.72 points, or 0.96%, to 2744.79.

U.S. stocks ended lower on Tuesday as Alcoa sales missed estimates and energy stocks declined as oil prices plunged more than 2 percent.

Asian shares fell Tuesday on selling prompted by Japan declaring its nuclear crisis a match for the Chernobyl disaster in severity and after the International Monetary Fund said global economic growth should slow this year as new risks emerge.

Wholesale Gold Bars slipped to a 3-session low in London trade on Tuesday, finally bouncing higher from $1455 per ounce - some 1.5% below yesterday's new Dollar high - as world stock markets fell and major-economy government bonds rose.

U.S. stocks declined in early trade on Tuesday as disappointing first quarter sales from Alcoa and renewed concerns about Japan's nuclear crisis weighed on the sentiment.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Tuesday are: Exelixis, KIT digital, Carnival, Monster Worldwide, Alcoa, Visa, Ford Motor, Oracle Corp, Medtronic and Micron Technology.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Exelixis, KIT digital, Tibco Software, Layne Christensen, and Schnitzer Steel Industries. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Micrel, Extreme Networks, TranS1, Lionbridge Technologies, and NPS Pharmaceuticals.

Level 3 Communications said it agreed to acquire Global Crossing for about $1.9 billion stock deal to boost its service portfolio.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Monday are: Tyco International, Symantec, Cliffs Natural Resources, Apollo Group, Halliburton, Monsanto, Alcoa, Dr Pepper Snapple Group and PPL Corp.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Friday are: Weyerhaeuser, Nabors Industries, Pier 1 Imports, Qualcomm, Helmerich & Payne, Freeport-McMoRan Copper, Netflix, Bally Technologies and Costco Wholesale Corp.

U.S. stocks posted modest losses Thursday after another major earthquake rattled Japan's northeastern coast, but retailers climbed following surprisingly strong March sales.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Wednesday are: Gilead Sciences, Philip Morris International, Range Resources, NYSE Euronext, eBay, Chesapeake Energy, Kohl's Corp and Dell.