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  2. Ray-Ban - Wikipedia

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    Ray-Ban is a brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is best known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million.

  3. Silver - Wikipedia

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    Silver is a relatively soft and extremely ductile and malleable transition metal, though it is slightly less malleable than gold. Silver crystallizes in a face-centered cubic lattice with bulk coordination number 12, where only the single 5s electron is delocalized, similarly to copper and gold. [ 14 ]

  4. Tin - Wikipedia

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    Tin is most commonly alloyed with copper. Pewter is 85–99% tin, [93] and bearing metal has a high percentage of tin as well. [94] [95] Bronze is mostly copper with 12% tin, while the addition of phosphorus yields phosphor bronze. Bell metal is also a copper–tin alloy, containing 22% tin. Tin has sometimes been used in coinage; it once ...

  5. 2000s commodities boom - Wikipedia

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    The 2000s commodities boom or the commodities super cycle[ 1] was the rise of many physical commodity prices (such as those of food, oil, metals, chemicals and fuels) during the early 21st century (2000–2014), [ 2] following the Great Commodities Depression of the 1980s and 1990s. The boom was largely due to the rising demand from emerging ...

  6. Silvercorp Metals' Dividend X-ray - AOL

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    Silvercorp Metals -- like competitors First Majestic Silver (NYS: AG) and Endeavour Silver (NYS: EXK) -- is a miner of silver, profiting from the silver the company is able to get out of its mines.

  7. From analysts' forecasts to crude oil updates to everything impacting the stock market, it can all be found here. ... SILVER. 29.86. 2.80%. EUR/USD. 1.1194447 ... 40% of Berkshire Hathaway's $276. ...

  8. Has the stock market bottomed? A scientist weighs in. - AOL

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    All three major indexes are still trading below their mid-July record highs, according to Yahoo Finance data. The same is true for popular names like Nvidia ( NVDA ), whose stock is off by 13% ...

  9. History of Chinese currency - Wikipedia

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    Old Chinese Currency used in 1920–23. This currency was also used in Hunza state.. The use of shell money is attested to in the Chinese writing system.The traditional characters for 'goods' (貨), 'buy/sell' (買/賣), and 'monger' (販), in addition to various other words relating to 'exchange', all contain the radical 貝, which is the pictograph for shell (simplified to 贝).