Posted on 09 February 2010 by VRS
From AFP: Anglo-Swiss mining group Xstrata on Monday reported a 41 percent drop in its annual profit in 2009 and pinned its hopes on a renewed boom in commodities demand in China and other emerging economies. [more]
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From Businessweek.com: A slump in commodities last week was caused by a strengthening dollar and raw materials remain “hot- ticket” investments for 2010, Morgan Stanley said. [more]
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From Bloomberg: Copper, crude oil and sugar are the top picks among commodities, with the three set to gain on increasing emerging-market demand and supply constraints as the global economy recovers, according to Morgan Stanley. [more]
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From Investopedia.com: Ever since the modern-day economy emerged from World War II, predicting commodity cycles has been more art than science. Many economic variables have been tested for their correlative and predictive powers without a consensus over the years. [more]
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From WSJ: In a conference call with clients last week, Barclays Capital said commodities had a “shaky” start to the year. That’s putting it mildly, with volatile price swings in industrial inputs like copper and oil as well as precious metals — and all with a broadly downward bias. [more]
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From Istockanalyst.com: David Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff offered the following warning today about the future course of the trade-weighted U.S. dollar and its historical relationship with commodity prices. [more]
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From WSJ: It will be 50 years in September since the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was created in Baghdad with five founding member countries. [more]
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From Bloomberg: Crude oil is poised to rise to $75 a barrel, recouping a week’s losses, before the market revisits chart support around $70, said National Australia Bank Ltd. [more]
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From Beforeitsnews.com: European and U.S. stock markets have taken a hit recently as spooked investors from Shanghai to Sao Paolo were fleeing risky assets amid concern that the financial crisis in Portugal and Greece could spread through the euro zone with vast implications for the fate of the fragile global economic recovery. [more]
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From Nytimes.com: Carbon markets have had a rocky ride since trading began five years ago in the European Union. The latest bump came last month, when swindlers used faked e-mail messages to obtain access codes for individual accounts on national registries that make up the bloc’s Emission Trading System. [more]
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From Bnamericas.com: Global steel output is expected to increase 11% to 1.35Bt in 2010, according to UK-based steel consultancy MEPS International, Brazilian news service Agência Estado reported. [more]
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From CNNMoney.com: It hasn’t been a good year for the black and gold. Oh sure, fans of the New Orleans Saints are partying today following their team’s first Super Bowl victory. But investors in commodities who’ve made big bets on black gold (oil) and real gold can’t be in as festive a mood. [more]
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From Theaureport.com: There’s no doubt about it… Everything points to higher gold prices this year: Weakness in the U.S. dollar: The value of the dollar has fallen 35% since 2002 and 9% in the past 12 months. Meanwhile, the national debt is approaching $12.5 trillion and the 2010 budget deficit is projected to hit a new record: $1.56 trillion. [more]
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From Theaureport.com: The U.S. dollar is up this week against the euro out of fear of how debt problems in Greece and elsewhere in Europe will be resolved, and as a result gold has had a tough week. [more]
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From Commodityonline.com: New York State spending is out of control. California tried to go off the dollar but the California IOU is a total failure. There are 38 states right behind California and New York, all of which are too big to fail. [more]
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From Bloomberg: The euro traded near an eight-month low against the dollar on concern a European Union summit this week will fail to address Greece’s fiscal crisis, damping demand for assets in the region. [more]
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From Dailymail.co.uk: Sterling suffered an 8-and-a-half-month low against the dollar as currency markets shun the UK in light of Eurozone debt fears. [more]
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From Investorschronicle.co.uk: Money invested into exchanged-traded currencies (currency ETCs) has risen to $49m, with trade volumes soaring, as investors build long US dollar positions and turn negative on the euro as the Greek debt crisis worsens. [more]
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From Commodityonline.com: Commodity exchange traded funds (ETFs) have been enjoying a good run in the past year. But some ETFs haven’t been performing as well as their underlying commodities. [more]
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From Dow Jones: ETF Securities USA has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to launch a U.S.-based exchange-traded fund backed by a basket of physical gold, silver, platinum and palladium. [more]
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From Reuters: Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, formerly Calyon, plans to expand its commodity trading operations and enter the European physical gas and power markets by the end of March, its global head of commodities, Martin Fraenkel, said. [more]
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From WSJ: The head of Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. cast doubt on the ability of U.S. regulators to carve out some bank-trading activities as part of a broad overhaul of the financial system. [more]
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From Hardassetsinvestor.com: Soybean farmers started harvesting back in October, when the price hovered around $10 a bushel, with some of the crop selling at even higher prices. But now that the harvest is done and prices have dropped, farmers are choosing to sit on their unsold inventories rather than take them to market. [more]
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From Commodityonline.com: The coffee futures market is basically used by the coffee producers and purchasers for hedging from wild price swings. In addition to hedging, the coffee futures market provides small investors to profit from fluctuations in the coffee prices. The most liquid coffee futures contracts are provided on the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT). [more]
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