Commodity prices are showing diverging performance in early European trade. Growth-sensitive crude oil prices are following shares lower but likewise sentiment-linked copper is essentially flat. Meanwhile, gold and silver are on the upswing, following up on a jump higher in late Wall Street trade after a disappointing set of US economic data seemed to stoke Fed QE3 bets and drive demand for precious metals as an alternative store of value while boosting Treasuries and weighing on the US Dollar.
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