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Hedge funds cut bullish commodity bets to 6-year low

Frik Els | March 09, 2015 | 1:54 pm Precious Metals Gold Silver 

Large scale speculators in gold futures added massively to short positions – bets that prices will fall – ahead of Friday's jobs report in the US which sent gold prices tumbling. On Monday the gold price regained some of its...

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