Palladium price rises to highest since 2011

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Palladium prices rose sharply Friday as traders feared that continuing tensions with Russia could result in fewer exports of the metal.

The actively traded June contract for the metal jumped $17.65, or 2.3 percent, to settle at $789.30 an ounce. That’s the highest price since September 2011.

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