Tom Pawlicki, precious-metals analyst with MF Global in Chicago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Loses Some Safe-Haven Allure] Reference

We are still long precious-metals stocks -- gold, silver, uranium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudent Bear's Approach Delivers Payoff] Reference

Suki Cooper, precious-metals analyst at Barclays Capital in London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Gold Gains Fizzle] Reference

Despite recent pullbacks for some precious-metals and soybean stocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [CGM Focus Is No. 1 -- Again] Reference

Basic resources also rose on the back of higher precious-metals prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest bank-bailout plan] Reference

As a result, many precious-metals funds were down by around 50% or more.    From Wordnik.com.  [How a Gold Fund Has Held Up] Reference

UBS now will only run a precious-metals and exchange-traded commodities arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [UBS Readies for Infusion of Bond Funds] Reference

Investors in natural-resources and precious-metals funds have been whipsawed.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ugly Market's Lessons for Investors] Reference

"That prompted a spate of liquidation in the precious-metals markets," said Jim Steel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crude Sinks to a 3½-Year Low] Reference

Over the last year, the agricultural, energy and precious-metals sectors in the GSCI have risen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commodity-Price Scapegoats] Reference

Rare or older coins tend to hold their value better when precious-metals prices fall, experts said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Precious-Coin Market] Reference

"If the dollar further strengthens, then you will see a further decline in precious-metals prices.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dollar Dims Gold Outlook] Reference

Mr. Shear joined Morgan as a precious-metals trader in 1982, and left the firm officially last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shear Leaves Morgan Stanley] Reference

A precious-metals trading business they started got tangled up in litigation with other trading firms.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Money-Fund Manager's Fateful Shift] Reference

Natural-resources funds are down an average 22% so far in 2008 and precious-metals funds are down 26%.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ugly Market's Lessons for Investors] Reference

The fund, founded by David Tice, shorts stocks and often invests in shares of precious-metals and mining firms.    From Wordnik.com.  [As Some 'Shorts' Thrive, More Calls for Regulation] Reference

He said other falling precious-metals prices pressured copper, which technical charts show could be headed lower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Copper Slips After Hitting $4] Reference

One option: precious-metals funds, which generally buy the stocks of mining, processing and distribution companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Survive the New Gold Rush] Reference

It's sobering to note that precious-metals prices this year are running more than 30% ahead of where they were a year ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's Inflation Problem] Reference

"It's just a matter of time before we saw something like this," said Carlos Sanchez, precious-metals analyst with CPM Group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Slumps on Profit-Taking] Reference

Southern Copper Corp. shares plummeted 84% in 2008, while precious-metals miner Cia. de Minas Buenaventura SAA. lost 65% last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [As Go Metals, So, Too, Will Peruvian Stocks] Reference

The worsening financial-sector news has shifted the momentum for gold, said Carlos Sanchez, precious-metals analyst with CPM Group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Rises to $846.60] Reference

The bulk of the move occurred in overnight trading, with the head of one precious-metals desk describing the day session as subdued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Gives Back Gains, Finishing Flat] Reference

"But there will be other reasons to have precious-metals holdings, as the weakness in the securities market will increase," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dollar's Rise Short-Changes Gold] Reference

"We've seen prices rise in a similar fashion over the past couple weeks," said Carlos Sanchez, precious-metals analyst with CPM Group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fears Push Platinum Higher] Reference

"We continue to see good physical interest at these levels," said Walter de Wet, a precious-metals analyst at Standard Bank in London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sliding Euro Hits Gold Prices] Reference

"What's weighing on the price is concern that industrial demand is declining," said Carlos Sanchez, precious-metals analyst with CPM Group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Auto Sales] Reference

The rest of the precious-metals complex fell as weakness in equities prompted worries about the global economy, and thus industrial demand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Climbs Amid Global Tensions] Reference

The supply losses come at a time when investment and fabrication demand are strong, said Carlos Sanchez, precious-metals analyst with CPM Group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Platinum to Stay Precious] Reference

"People start to trade these relationships, so it becomes self-fulfilling," says Philip Klapwijk, chairman of GFMS, a London precious-metals research company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Assets an Easy Call?] Reference

But it kept its precious-metals desk, seen as integral to the Swiss bank's position as a global wealth manager, according to someone familiar with the bank's thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banks Show Midas Touch With Their Bets on Bullion] Reference

But the mint sells them for the going price of silver, plus a small premium, to a handful of wholesalers, brokerage companies, precious-metals firms, coin dealers and banks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Losing a Mint:] Reference

The partnership will enable HSBC, already active in precious-metals markets, to dive into over-the-counter energy trading, where other global banks are already well-established.    From Wordnik.com.  [HSBC, Total to Partner in Energy Trading] Reference

Though clients can obtain physical assets through Glencore, Credit Suisse isn't directly involved in any physical transactions, other than its precious-metals business in Zurich.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Chemistry of Speculation] Reference