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Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, December 15, 2009 (change from Dec. 7 in brackets):

Antimony: Mid-mkt US$6,050/t.

Date Dec. 14 Dec. 11 Dec. 10 Dec. 9 Dec. 8 BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne) Al Alloy 1935/1970 1915/1939 1869/1900 1821/1855 1806/185…

*as of Sept. 30/09

52-week Date Dec. 14 Dec. 11 Dec. 10 Dec. 9 Dec. 8 High Low S&P/TSX-Ven Comp 1425.08 1417.11 1417.60 1410.08 1402.24 1466.49 684.95 TSX Composite 11545.69 11423.93 11464.57 11379.22 11368.93…

Short positions outstanding at Nov. 30/09 (with changes from Nov. 15/09).

Short positions outstanding at Nov. 30/09 (with changes from Nov. 15/09).

Note: Alcoa will pay US93.75 cents per share on its US$3.75 cmltv prf stk payable Jan 1, record close Dec 11. Freeport Mc- MoRan Copper & Gold will pay $0.60* div with the first payment of $0.15* …

as of 9 a.m. ET. Dec 15, 2009 (%) Bank of Canada 0.50 Target overnight rate 0.25 Canadian Prime 2.25 U.S. Discount Primary 0.50 U.S. Fed Funds market rate 0-0.25 U.S. Prime 3.2…

CANADIAN/U. S. EXCHANGE (Bank of Canada noon rate) Date Dec. 14 Dec. 11 Dec. 10 Dec. 9 Dec. 8 US$ in C$ 1.0593 1.0585 1.0519 1.0552 1.0604 C$ in US$ 0.9440 0.9447 0.9507 0.9477 0.9…

Australia (A$) Dec. 15 Dec. 8 Change Aquila Resources 9.1 8.95 0.15 Bendigo Mining 0.24 0.24 0.00 Centennial Coal 3.53 3.31 0.22 Fortescue Res 4.38 4.21 0.17 Iluka Re…

Nevada Copper (NCU-T) has updated a March 2008 preliminary economic assessment on its Pumpkin Hollow copper project near Yerington, Nev., incorporating a high-grade underground scenario with a much lo…