Gold Buyers Sydney - Markets Live: China data eases gains

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By - Press Release
Category - Gold Buyers Sydney
Posted by - Cash Gold Buyer

Gold Buyers Sydney

The Australian sharemarket is down from the day's high as a measure of China's manufacturing sector showed a slight retreat from its four-year peak.

It went from looking like a great day to just a good day on the Australian sharemarket after the underwhelming Chinese manufacturing data dissipated some of the earlier buying momentum, CMC Markets trader Tim Waterer says: 

Undoubtedly the materials sector suffered a setback today on the release of the Chinese data and with some of the big miners reversing course the broader market slipped from the session highs. 

However, materials weakness was more than offset by strength in other segments of the market with the banking and retail stocks enjoying a positive outing today courtesy of strong offshore leads. 

Risk assets from around the globe will take their cues from the Fed chairman's testimony before Congress this week, with a key point of interest being whether his testimony is singularly supportive of continuing asset purchases or whether his tone reflects the assortment of opinion contained in the most recent Fed Minutes. 

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After recently cutting jobs to save costs, accounting firm WHK Group is considering a $320 million merger proposal from wealth management firm SFG Australia. As it posted a 22 per cent fall in first half profit, WHK received an indicative offer from SFG that could create a merged entity with more than $17 billion in funds under management. SFG, an advisor to the wealthy, has been in talks with WHK, an accountant for small businesses and high worth individuals, since October 2012. 

The suitor has proposed a share-based merger that would leave WHK shareholders with a 42 per cent interest in a newly merged business.SFG’s offer implies a value of almost $1.21 for each WHK share, above their previous closing price of $1.06.

Gold Buyers Sydney - 60 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

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Category - Gold Buyers Sydney
Posted By - Cashgold Buyer

Gold Buyers Sydney

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Gold Buyers - Gold Futures Rise Ahead of U.S. Jobs Data

Source - http://www.marketwatch.com/
By - Sarah Turner
Category - Gold Buyers

Posted By -  http://tinyurl.com/DiamondBuyer

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SYDNEY (MarketWatch) — Gold futures rose on Friday, ahead of U.S. jobs data that are expected to give investors more clues on the health of the economy. 

Gold for delivery in April GCJ3 -0.03%  rose 70 cents to $1,662.70 an ounce in electronic trading hours on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. 

The gains came after gold futures fell more than 1% Thursday, as profit-taking set in following an advance fueled by the surprise fourth-quarter contraction for the U.S. economy seen in data earlier this week. 

“Buyers are simply not willing to hold their long positions going into Friday’s session because of the Chinese manufacturing [Purchasing Managers’ Index] and U.S. nonfarm payrolls numbers,” said Fawad Razaqzada, analyst at GFT Markets, in a note out early 

The Chinese manufacturing data, released during the Asian session Friday, painted a mixed picture for the key sector. 

An official government manufacturing index slipped to 50.4 from December’s 50.6, while a rival survey from HSBC showed a rise to 52.3 in January from 51.5 in December. Still, both indexes remained above the 50 mark separating growth from contraction.

Meanwhile, the nonfarm payrolls data are expected to show that the U.S. economy added 170,000 jobs in January and a drop in the unemployment rate to 7.7% from 7.8%, according to a MarketWatch survey of economists. 

“A disappointing figure may help boost [gold] prices, in our view,” said HSBC metal analysts. As was the case after this week’s U.S. gross domestic product data, gold tends to benefit from safe-haven buying if investors are concerned about economic developments. 

Around the wider metals complex, silver for March delivery SIH3 -0.12%  rose 9 cents to $31.44 an ounce, and April platinum PLJ3 +0.26%  advanced $1.60 to $1,677.00 an ounce. 

March palladium PAH3 -0.64%  declined $4.15 to $741.55 an ounce, while copper for delivery in the same month HGH3 -0.23%  lost 1 cent to $3.73 a pound.

Gold Buyers Sydney - Here Is the Robot That Will Extract Water From the Moon

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By - Megan Garber
Category - Gold Buyers Sydney
Posted By - http://tinyurl.com/DiamondBuyer

Gold Buyers Sydney

One of the biggest challenges of space travel has very little to do with the traveling itself, and more to do with everything that happens afterward. 

How will humans sustain themselves if we send them back to the moon (and, as planned, to Mars)? Food, even freeze-dried, is heavy. Water, too. Maintenance is expensive, in every sense of the word. 

So, if manned space travel is to become a long-term reality, we'll need to find ways to cultivate the places and planets we visit: to mine their soil for nutrients, to find the water hidden in their depths, to generate the air that will make everything else possible.

NASA has an idea for doing all that, and it takes the form — as so many innovative ideas seem to these days — of a robot. 

Meet the Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot — RASSOR, for short. The robot (pronounced as "razor") is an excavator device, designed to extract (yes) water, (yes) ice, and (yes) fuel from the soil of the moon. And from the soil of similarly dusty bodies (like, say, Mars). 

NASA is envisioning that RASSOR, currently in development in prototype form, will not only perform the Greek-fable-meets-rocket-science-reality task of getting water from rocks; it will also take the remaining dust and convert the chemicals it contains into two things crucial to astronauts: air for breathing, and fuel for moving. "The robot," NASA says, "would be the feeder for a lunar resource processing plant, a level of industry never before tried anywhere besides Earth."

How do you design a device that can do all that work? How do you create an automaton that is rover and water filtration center and power plant all rolled in one rolling vehicle? One obvious challenge is mass. 

On the one hand, the robot in question has to be light enough to feasibly fly on a rocket. (It takes about $4,000, NASA says, to send a single pound of payload into space.) On the other hand, though, the machine has to be heavy enough to operate in less gravity than that offered by Earth. (In the moon's case: less than 20% of that gravity.) It also has to be generally substantial enough to dig into soil without tipping over, and to operate — like its fellow lunar and Martian rovers — as a kind of multi-purpose machine.

The current prototype has solved many of those problems by applying its multi-purpose intentions to multi-purpose design. The drums that the machine will use to gather soil double as legs — which can, in turn, help the robot to navigate dusty terrain. (They also allow the 100-pound, 2.5-foot-tall device to dig effectively, since one of those drums can act as a grip to balance the robot as it does its work.) 

Though the current design has given the RASSOR a tank-like shape, with tracks to balance the robot as it roves other worlds, NASA is considering replacing that base with wheels — which would make the next RASSOR iteration a little more Martian-rover-like than the current one. But the modular capability, ostensibly, would be a constant.

A shape-shifting, water-mining spacebot! NASA expects that the RASSOR 2 — the next generation of the spunky little power plant — will begin testing in early 2014.

Gold Buyers | "Gold Testing For Gold Buyers"

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By:  mlgdave
Category: Gold Buyers Sydney 
Posted By: http://tinyurl.com/GoldBuyersGold

GOLD TESTING TOOLS

When you finally decide you want to sell your gold, you want to make sure that your buyer tests your gold and fully informs you with the whole process. I have been to some buyers who will test your gold but they do it in a back room, and don’t show you the results, and then give you a price based on their test.  As well if you were shipping your gold in the mail you would never get to see any test that’s done either.  My personal recommendation is to do business with someone who tests the gold in front of you, and explains how the process works, and shows you the test results.

There are two main types of tests that are being done by gold buyers, electronic testing and acid testing.  Acid testing is the most commonly used and also very reliable and fast. This article will explain the way that test works. Your piece of jewelry will be rubbed up on a black touchstone to leave a gold streak.  The test then involves placing a drop of acid on the streak.  The test always starts with the lowest strength acid which is 10 karat, then 14 karat, then 18 karat and so on. The streak will eventually be dissolved by one of the acids and the result is that whatever the lowest strength of acid is that doesnt dissolve the streak is the purity of the gold.  For example if the streak doesn’t dissolve with a 10 karat acid but dissolves with a 14 karat acid that means that the gold is 10 karat, or if the street doesn’t dissolve with 10 carrot or 14 karat acid but does all’s with 18 karat use then know that the gold is 14 karat. There really is no reason that the gold buyer shouldn’t do this test in front of you so you can see the result.  The test literally takes 5 seconds and is safe. If the person you were hoping to sell your gold to won’t do this test in front of you you should probably question why not, and perhaps find someone who will do this test for you. These test kits can also test your silver and platinum, as well as check for gold plated material as well. I hope this article has been helpful and provides you with more knowledge as to who you may want to do business with.