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Sibanye Ready for Gold Acquisition

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Sibanye Ready for Gold AcquisitionGold Silver Reports — Sibanye Gold Ltd., the biggest producer of the precious metal from South African mines, wants to buy a gold-producing asset by the end of the year, adding to its acquisitions of platinum operations in its home country.

The asset would have to make a “material difference” to Sibanye’s current output, meaning it would have to produce at least 200,000 ounces of gold a year, Chief Executive Officer Neal Froneman said in an interview after the company’s annual general meeting Tuesday. Any acquisition would have to be generating cash to help pay dividends, he said.  

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Fed Rate Moves to Block Out

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Gold Silver Reports — The U.S. economy should be solid enough to merit an interest-rate increase this year, and the central bank won’t cave to political pressure to refrain from tightening during a presidential election year, said John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

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Inflation Weakness Helped Spur Rate Cut

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Gold Silver Reports — A “broad-based” weakening of inflation pressures helped persuade Australia’s central bank that the economy would be assisted by an interest-rate cut even as the growth outlook remained steady. Central bank considered waiting for more data in May decision.

While Reserve Bank of Australia board members considered holding the cash rate unchanged so they could await more information, policy makers on May 3 opted to cut the benchmark by a quarter point to 1.75 %, according to the minutes of its latest policy meeting.   

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