Market Forces: A Stellar Six Months for Commodities
Dismal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Commodities rack up their best half-yearly performance in 35 years.
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Paul Collier: Africa profiting from commodity boom, but good governance key to long-term success
biopact (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Sub-Saharan Africa is benefiting from the massive commodity boom that has come to dominate world markets. The continent is profiting from its immense wealth in oil, minerals, agricultural products, wood and other commodities. But the past has shown that these booms are shortlived and most often don't benefit the poor - 'the bottom billion' - at all. The teeth of the 'natural resource curse' often bite...
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Commodities Are Taken to the Woodshed - What's the Game Plan?
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Jeff Fong submits: The day started out like pretty much every day in the past few weeks. The broader market acts weak, oil remains at its high, and commodities (especially coal and natural gas stocks) make new highs almost daily. But then we come across the woodshed . Complete Story »
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Cashing in on Commodities: Three Ways to Profit From Record Meat and Dairy Prices
Money Morning (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Editor’s Note: This is the eighth installment of a new Money Morning series highlighting investment opportunities in the global bull market for commodities. By Jennifer Yousfi Managing... Money Morning is here to help investors profit handsomely on this seismic shift in the global economy. Money moves markets. But Money Morning lets you move first.
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Futures prices determine physical oil prices
Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | yesterday
Not the other way around. All commodities traded on the futures market are priced this way. So, yes, speculators can influence prices. But they can’t control them. Besides, speculators don’t move en masse. Some are short, hoping prices will fall, while others are betting on a rise. If supply is falling while demand is rising, then [...]
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Cooking Oil Thefts On The Rise
Phillybits (Free subscription) | yesterday
Who didn't see this coming ? That's because frying oil can be used to make bio-diesel, an alternative fuel that can power cars and other vehicles that driven by a diesel motor. Only two years ago, discarded grease was sold for roughly 75 cents a gallon on the commodities market. Since then, the price has more than tripled to $2.60 a gallon. With the gooey stuff now being something akin to liquid gold,...
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Oil trading over $145 a barrel
ireland.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Crude oil traded near records above $145 today a barrel as investors purchased commodities as an alternative to flagging equities markets.
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Oil holds steady around $145
Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
Crude oil prices hovered near $145 a barrel on Friday, close to the record highs reached in the previous session
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Top Ten: The week's top news and analysis, June 30-July 3
Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
The U.S. market week may have been truncated by Independence Day, but it emphasized instead interdependence, whether between E.U. monetary policy and U.S. stocks; or Wall Street and Washington; or Israel's foreign policy and the price of crude oil; or, staying in the commodities sphere, between the prices of sugar, corn and soybeans and, again, that of crude; or even Dick Grasso and the ultimate ignominy...
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KL expects export growth to more than double
Business Times Asiaone (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
(KUALA LUMPUR) Malaysian exports are likely to grow 6 per cent in 2008, more than twice as fast as last year, as the South-east Asian nation entered new markets for its electronics and commodities, the trade minister said yesterday.
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Ex-Refco chief gets 16 years in prison
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Phillip Bennett, the former chief executive of Refco, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for a nearly decade-long fraud that ultimately pulled the commodities brokerage into bankruptcy
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Mutual Funds: Stock funds suffer awful quarter, but worst may be over
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
It was not a good quarter for mutual funds and ETFs, not unless all you owned were commodities and bear-market funds. And it has not been a good year overall as major market indexes have slipped more than 20% from their 52-week peaks -- the traditional definition of a bear market.
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India pepper up on tight supply, Vietnam price hike
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Indian pepper futures rose on Thursday on tight supply situation and talk of a price rise in Viet Nam, analysts said. "Arrivals are very low in the spot market. Farmers are expecting prices to move up, as harvesting in Viet Nam has ended," said an analyst with Motilal Oswal Commodities Broker Pvt Ltd. In Viet Nam, the largest producer and exporter, harvesting ended in June. India is the second
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Total carbon market value per year
http://maps.grida.no/go/feedrandom (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
The total value of the carbon market for 2003 topped $300 million. And, depending on international regulation, some observers project that it will increase to $10–40 billion by 2010. Markets are also being created for more diverse commodities ranging from aquifer recharge credits, renewable energy credits, wasteload allocations for point and non-point source pollutants, and mitigation credits for...
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Bets on $200 oil increase
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
The number of financial bets on crude oil prices hitting $200 a barrel before the end of this year has almost doubled in the last month, a further sign of growing concern that oil prices will continue to rise sharply in the near term
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