Silver is one of the most famous precious metals like gold though it’s unusual properties makes it very different. Today, silver is sought as a valuable and practical industrial commodity, as well as an appealing investment precious metal. Although silver is relatively scarce, it is the most plentiful and least expensive of the precious metals.The largest silver producing...
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Palm oil is a form of an edible oil, which is relatively high in saturated fats and is obtained from the fruit of the oil palm tree. It is the second-most widely produced edible oil after soybean oil. Almost 90% world production of the palm oil is used as edible oil and 10% of production accounts for industrial uses. This oil has a unique feature of remaining stable in a good range of temperature.
There are several...
Heating oil, or oil heat is a low viscosity, flammable liquid petroleum product used to fuel building furnaces or boilers. It produces 138,500 British thermal units (146,100 kJ) per gallon and weighs 7.2 pounds (3.3 kg) per imperial gallon (0.72 kg/l), which is about the same heat per unit mass as the somewhat less dense diesel fuel. It is refined from crude oil, and therefore follows crude’s price trends. When...
Gur or Jaggery is a typical Indian product with several uses in daily food preparations. It is unrefined sugar that has been made from sugar cane juice and is popular throughout southern and Southeast Asia. At present jaggery being produced in India has no set of any standards and at the time of manufacturing, no chemicals are added, it is pure natural. Production of gur is cheap and simple as compared to sugar...
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Gold Fund Index is the most representative of any precious metals index in the world. Currently, several Gold Indices exist there.
The two most widely known are the Philadelphia’s Gold & Silver Index i.e.
Ø XAU Gold Stock Index: The XAU is a capitalization-weighted index. The XAU was started on January 1979 with a value of 100.
Ø BUGS AMEX HUI: The HUI is a modified equal dollar weighted index. The HUI...