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Crude oil pushes toward $96
NEW YORK, May 4 (UPI) -- Gold prices moved higher on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange Friday as equities dropped for the second consecutive trading session.
Gold gained $8 to $1,642.80 per troy ounce. Silver added 38 cents to $30.39 per ounce.
The dollar index rose 0.38 percent to 70.51, as the dollar gained against all major currencies of Europe and most of Asia.
The euro fell to $1.3085 from Thursday's $1.3152, while the dollar dropped to 79.84 yen from Thursday's 80.17 yen.
The British pound fell to $1.6147 from $1.6178. The dollar rose to 0.9959 Canadian dollars from 0.9886 Canadian.
The dollar jumped ahead of the Hong Kong dollar, trading at 7.7608 from 7.7594. The Australian dollar fell to $1.0182 from $1.0264.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, May 17 (UPI) --
Nobel Energy of Houston, which discovered Israel's big gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean, is pressing the government to decide soon on an energy export policy as the prospect of an undersea pipeline to Turkey gains credibility.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, May 17 (UPI) --
mid growing concerns about security threats from Syria and Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has greatly reduced planned defense budget cuts.
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