A Critical Day For Commodities - A Look At Wheat, Aluminum, & Copper

A Critical Day For Commodities - A Look At Wheat, Aluminum, & Copper Posted December 5th, 2008 by Epiphany Investing Basic Materials Alcoa aluminum charts copper Freeport front month futures market mosaic Potash Corp technical analysis Read the full article: http [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 21:15:04

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Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan

Dear CIGAs, It is difficult to get an accurate read on today’s price action because it was dominated by front running of index fund rebalancing to conform to changes being made in some of the major commodity indices. Copper was up 7% at one time ... the various commodity markets. Frankly I find the idea of reducing the weighting of gold [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 18:59:22

Gold Loses Some Shine

Allen Sykora reports: Comex gold is on the defensive due to factors such as a slightly higher dollar, “less enormous” volatility in stock-index futures overnight than other recent sessions ... that there is potential for a heavier sell-off, pointing out that other commodities such as copper, silver, corn [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 15:15:22

Mr. L.Purevdorj, a newly appointed President of Mongol Bank: will study of providing more money into the market.

Shortly after appointed as the President of Mongol Bank, Mr. L.Purevdorj answered some questions from media ... trade balance, banking risk. We must increase our currency reserve. We have to work on attracting ... is imported to Mongolia through copper commodity price fall. We shall get rid of this position [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 04:25:13

Oil Set for Rebound as Record Drop Spurs OPEC Production Cuts

By Grant Smith and Mark Shenk Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Oil futures may rebound from their worst year to average $60 a barrel next year as OPEC makes ... be turning around.” Crude futures averaged $100 this year, the highest since crude began trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange in 1983. Oil plunged along with commodities from copper to corn [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 00:25:00

TABLE-Breakdown of China’s Nov CGPI input index

Following is a breakdown of China’s corporate goods price index (CGPI) in November, released on Monday by the People’s Bank of China ... Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Overall -0.4 4.0 7.0 8.2 9.4 9.5 9.6 10.3 10.2 9.2 Grain ~ 6.6 ... COMMODITIES-Surging shares dim gold, copper bounces on rate cut August 7, 2008 — WRAPUP [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 06:39:54

Copper Rises in London on Speculation China Will Purchase Metal

By Claudia Carpenter Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) — Copper rose in London, erasing this week’s loss, on speculation that China’s State Reserve Bureau, ... . Aluminum inventory in warehouses monitored by the Shanghai Futures Exchange declined 18 percent ... in the UBS Bloomberg CMCI Index of 26 commodities. On the LME, copper inventories jumped 5,875 tons [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 16:23:59

You Just Don’t Know When The Rolling’s Going To Stop

The Aurora Sentinel reports from Colorado. “When local Realtor Sunny Banka shows any home to a potential buyer, she immediately heads downstairs. As the number of foreclosed and abandoned properties boom with the current housing crisis, copper wire, piping and other building materials are valuable commodities, [more...]

Date: 2008-08-29 15:25:37

Commodity Boom Turns Bust in 2008 as Worldwide Economy Crumbles

By Pham-Duy Nguyen Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) — Commodity prices in 2008 plunged the most in five decades as demand for energy, ... , the slumping economy drove crude oil, gasoline, copper, corn, and wheat down from records in the first ... commodities to post gains. Gasoline futures declined to $1.0082 a gallon last year on the New York [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 18:57:26

Copper: the Ugly Metal that Trades So Beautifully

Copper is in high demand worldwide, and is definitely a hot commodity for traders to watch as nations like China continue rapidly developing their economies and infrastructure. [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 07:11:00

One Woman’s Trash Is Another Woman’s…Lingerie?

The Wall Street Journal: Even though gift-giving was relatively stingy this Christmas season, ... for the artists who transform cast-offs into commodities. Curbsides and trash bins are suddenly ... to make jewelry from metals such as copper and silver, too, but scrap prices rose too high this past year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 15:08:50

Bloomberg: Soros and Citadel Building up Coal Stakes

I'm still a fan of coal - this is why as I've dumped much of my global growth/commodity plays as hedge funds collapse - I've keep fertilizer and coal ... new buildings. But that is sense, and the market does not use sense - it's all pack trading and every commodity is either bad, or good. Program trading does not seem to discern between coffee, copper [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 17:57:50

Deflation, Inflation or Stagflation???

Remember FCX as leading indicator?Gold rallied 31 percent in 2007 as inflation rose at the fastest rate in almost two decades ... . Crude-oil futures have plunged 74 percent from a record in July.Will copper and oil and CRX drag gold ... only fleetingly in the form of a speculative blowoff in commodities, was just a head-fake, a seduction [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 17:34:00

Stocks, commodities surge

The stock market rally from the October low proved short-lived. The rally from the November low is proving stronger, especially after Monday's gains ... in commodities. General Motors Corp. jumped 21 percent as lawmakers agreed in principle with the White House ... percent, to settle at $43.71 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange...Copper futures [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 00:12:00

China corn futures dip after week of price increases, metals keep rising

Major commodities kept an upward trend on Tuesday, with metals continuing a strong rise ... U.S. dollars a bushel on the latest trading day, equal to about 1,107 yuan a ton. In an effort ... a tonne during the week. May Copper on the Shanghai Futures Exchange rose by the daily limit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:19:22

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