Base metals witnessed range bound trading session and ended the day with negative bias, Copper and zinc shed more than 4% discounting the flu to snow ball into a pandemic and derail the global economy's nascent recovery.
Nickel fell by 5.4% on account of heavy selling by traders and speculators in tandem with a weakening global trend. Reduced off take by consuming industries, such as stainless makers also weighed on nickel prices.
Gold rose to a 3 week high of $918.25 on Monday due to rise in risk aversion amidst fears of swine flu in North America. In the Indian markets, gold rose by Rs 140 to regain the 15,000 mark fast tracked by heavy buying by the retail investors on 'Akshay Tritiya'.
The world's largest gold-backed exchangetraded fund, the SPDR Gold Trust, said its holdings remained at 1,104.45 tonnes as of April 28, unchanged from the previous day. Its holdings hit a record 1,127.68 tonnes on April 9, and remained at that level for a week.
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The benchmark indices closed on a flat note after an extremely volatile and choppy session ahead of expiry. Stocks around the world declined as the Swine Flu outbreak extended beyond Mexico and the U. S., prompting concern of a pandemic and forcing Asian countries to screen travelers.
Crude settled up $6.11 at $51.55 on Friday, as early gains on U. S. stocks helped offset government data showing a arger-thanexpected 3.9 million-barrel build in U. S. crude stocks to a 19-year high last week.
Natural gas futures ended lower on Friday as mild weekend forecasts, growing supplies and a weak economy continued to weigh on sentiment.
The International Energy Agency (IEA), said that it can’t rule out the possibility of an oil supply shortage in 2013-14 because of slower investments in oil exploration and production by OPEC and other oil producing countries.
Base Metals floated higher with the equities markets and mostly ended higher than their previous close. Three month LME Copper rose by $150 to end at $4470 and the three month LME Nickel rose by $475 to finish the day at $1150.
Copper futures edged higher on Fridaytracking a fall in LME inventories. Copper stocks on the LME fell by 10,925 tonnes to 429,500 tonnes. Some traders are of the view that China's State Reserves Bureau (SRB), which bought 350,000 tonnes of copper cathode in the first quarter of 2009, could sell around 50,000 tonnes of copper to cash in on recent rallies.