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![Commodities slide on world markets overnight](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=808)
Commodities slide on world markets overnight
Commodities slid, taking stocks on Wall St. lower overnight, amid concern that rising food and raw materials prices would cut into corporate profits.
![Goldbugs see no end to price rises](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=808)
Goldbugs see no end to price rises
Gold investors have high hopes about price rises continuing in 2011.
![Jeweller dangles carat to 'best couple'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=808)
Jeweller dangles carat to 'best couple'
Kiwi diamond buyer Ange Hardy went up against the big boys to secure the rare 22-carat white diamond which Hollywood celebrity Kim Kardashian will brandish on her finger on Tuesday.
![Beefed-up Crown Minerals to chase deepsea gas](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=808)
Beefed-up Crown Minerals to chase deepsea gas
NZ oil and gas exploration will get a substantial boost in government resources, including funding to chase deep-sea methane hydrates that have yet to be commercially exploited anywhere in the world.
![Metal workers get 3 per cent pay rise](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=808)
Metal workers get 3 per cent pay rise
Nearly 2000 engineering and manufacturing workers have agreed to accept a 3 per cent pay rise this year and the same again next year.
![<i>John Armstrong:</i> Better to bury failure than risk defeat](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=808)
<i>John Armstrong:</i> Better to bury failure than risk defeat
Better an utter, total if humiliating backdown than a messy compromise that keeps the mining issue alive into election year.