Indian Commodity Market

India's rapid economic growth has witnessed lot of changes and developments in each sector of the economy ... and profitable investment avenue for Indian as well as foreign investors is commodities market. My dear readers ... , plantation crops, sugar and other soft commodities. The commodity exchange or market [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 18:36:00

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Impending rally in the commodities market?

Impending rally in the commodities market? November 26th, ... that is rushing into the markets. Other commodities such as silver are now on the radar with a rapidly expanding money supply and a heavily deflated price per ounce. Read more… Futures [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 23:20:42

Forex Market Seasonal Patterns - Really!

Much of the time, when the idea of seasonal patterns is brought up in trading and the financial markets it is related to commodities. The commodity market, with its production cycles (crop harvest times, winter heating, summer ...  was something many traders would probably find extremely valuable, I put together a full 175 page research [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 13:25:57

Flip That House - Houses Were Traded Like Commodities

Commodities are items of value and uniform quality produced in large quantities and sold in an open market ... to do with making money in the transaction. In a commodities or securities market, rallies unsupported ... one of the world’s largest and most highly leveraged commodity markets: residential real estate. Commodities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 17:20:10

Speculation and Commodity Prices

Ah, good - I've been meaning to do something like this myself, but never got around to it ... is that commodities that feature no futures markets have experienced as much volatility as those that have them ... is present in commodities markets: Commodity Prices, Again: Are Speculators to Blame, by Jeff Frankel [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 18:07:00

Don't count on the holiday/new year rally in the stock market or Obama rescue package? So, what next?

Commodity prices are falling and so as the stocks markets of Russia and Brazil which are commodity producers, hence its time for commodity consuming stock markets of India/China to move up, so they are rising ... +ve views in long-term that BRIC economies especially India/China offer great future opportunities [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 19:39:47

CNBC On Speculators Gone Wild: ‘So What?’

Yesterday, the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s Dan Weiss stood up for working American families as CNBC host Trish Regan and two other ... Futures Trading Commission released a report recommending specific improvements to commodities markets ... months from January to May traders poured $60 billion into the commodities market and basically per [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 23:30:34

Commodities markets expected to stabilize in 2009

Commodities markets expected to stabilize in 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com – NEW YORK -- During the first six months of 2008, commodities looked to be the savior ... who had invested in oil, futures contracts were their undoing. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 23:10:48

Oil Squeeze? Blame Yourself

The Journal’s Russell Gold reports: When it comes to the price of crude oil and gasoline, who is in the driver’s seat? One common answer is no one ... into the commodity futures market. All of this plays a role: the availability of supply, financial market interest in commodities, and don’t forget the strength of the U.S. dollar (the global [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 18:43:00

Somehow, the Dollar Regains Safe-Haven Status

Risk aversion is driving the action in currency markets Wednesday, as investors unload foreign positions — in many cases, ... in corporate debt and U.S. equities markets, as well as commodity markets, are emerging in the developing ... Brokers. “It’s easier to acquire dollar funding, which can be swapped into the desired currency [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 17:34:43

Has Oil Broken Down?

Commodities These commodity market blowups are becoming all-too-familiar in the last few years ... in a commodity turned into a buying frenzy, fueled at first by speculators caught up in the mere expectation ... at Alaron Trading in Chicago. SemGroup said in its bankruptcy filing that it had bet that crude [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 16:38:58

Putin’s Deguello

Streetwise Professor reports on Vladimir Putin’s “deguello*”:The island of stability theme is now longer operative ... with the world economy–through the commodity markets, most notably the oil market (as a seller) and the grain ... from Russian hands.Some things are somewhat changed.  Today, international investors and currency traders [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 10:05:33

Overnight markets: Commodities gloom

Asian stocks fell to a two-week low on Wednesday, following US and European markets overnight, as commodity prices slumped, pointing to a worsening outlook for global economies. Futures on the S&P 500 Index rose 0.5%, however, after losing 2.2% Tuesday as General Motors sank to the lowest price since 1943 amid [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 05:23:21

Oil Scapegoat Update: CFTC Finally Finds Some Evil Speculators!

The Netherlands is known more for its bucolic landscapes, dotted with windmills and tulip beds, than for its connection to energy markets. But that's where the Commodities Futures Trading ... the CFTC launched its probe into irregularities in energy markets. FT: The Commodity Futures Trading [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 18:13:00

Motorola unveils recyclable phone, boosts volatility as demand for call options surges

Today’s tickers: MOT, RIO, ICE, ERTS & CHK MOT – Motorola Inc ... do Rio Doce - ADRs. – Much optimism surrounded commodity and emerging market theories Tuesday ... stronger U.S. dollar, which is usually commodity price bearish, emerging market currencies including [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 18:16:32

The Momentum Crowd Runs Into Biotech

Rob Curran reports: If Herman Melville were around today, he might be working for Pequod, ... and making gung-ho bets on biotech stocks. Market participants say stock and commodity markets increasingly follow a bunch of adventurers known as “momentum,” or “momo,” traders. Once a sector [more...]

Date: 2008-08-13 09:22:00

What Say Currencies, Credit & Commodities Markets?

After a posting a 3% gain on Jan 2, the second trading day of the year was a dud for stocks ... before, big moves in currencies, commodities and credit markets will LEAD the equities. Let us try to figure out what is happening. Click all the links for charts. US Dollar is back above 20 DMA [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 23:06:08

International Forecaster December 2008 (#6) - Gold, Silver, Economy + More

By: Bob Chapman Sunday, 21 December 2008 US MARKETS When, in the wake of the Bear Stearns collapse, ... derivatives market with the passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, an opaque market, which ... destroying it. They were drawing out huge salaries, stock options, bonuses, golden parachutes, fees [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 17:31:27

Who let the oil market be manipulated?

For anyone who believes that speculation by energy traders explains at least a portion of the run-up in oil prices, the announcement that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating oil market ... some commodity trading exchanges to operate without oversight while others must report what's going [more...]

Date: 2008-05-30 15:51:47

Review: Commodities Rising

Every Friday Free From Money reviews a book you might find useful Over the past few years commodities have earned a reputation as being high ... that exist in the commodities markets, as well as offering thoughts on how to make money whether markets are going up or down. Here is a quick walk through Commodities Rising: Chapter [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 16:00:30

Flawed system

Stories by HILARY CHIEW Activists are calling for a re-examination of the capitalist system to overcome the social and economic ills of the world ... are traded in the futures markets where investors do not buy or sell a physical commodity like rice or crude ... about 60% of the wheat traded on the global commodity markets. So lucrative is this business [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 23:15:00

The Economy - Nowhere To Go But Up

As we slowly shed the rotting skin of a dismal year a resolute optimism prevails and although hurdles lie ahead, we have nowhere to go but up ...   looking backward. Commodities were here before the stock market, and they’ll be here after. Investments in commodities and managed futures, according to Marketwatch, Bloomberg and Barclays, are predicted [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 21:34:51

Are Speculators Really That Bad for Commodities Markets? (pfblogs.org)

David Enke submits: Commodity index investors (ie, speculators) sold $39 billion worth of crude oil futures between the July market peaks and September 2nd, a time that saw a rapid sell-off in crude oil prices (see Independent.iearticle).Complete Story » ... [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 11:41:59

DC’s Cosa Nostra

Judah Freed of examiner.com writes~ “Obama last week tapped Mary Schapiro to lead the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ... Gensler to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Instability in the commodities markets ... financial advisor to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Gensler has not yet shown to critics [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 06:54:25

Wednesday links: quant comedown

Is trading against the trend worth the risk?  (MarketSci Blog) What now for quants?  (Market Movers) The VIX was never all that accurate.  ( ... .  (Daily Options Report) One attempt at a lazy, ETF-heavy, retirement portfolio.  (Infectious Greed ... market?  (Bespoke) What effect has the commodity index re-balancing had on the markets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:53:19

Fresh Gourmet Coffee - Flavour You Can Count On

There is something special about coffee ... in the world? Coffee has become such an important commodity that it even has its own futures market among the ’soft commodities’. You can buy and sell coffee contracts and your results will be according [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 03:25:56

Diversifying Portfolio with Commodities Futures Fund

I first heard about commodities futures in the last bear market. In 2002, commodities futures returned something like +25-30% while the S&P lost 22%. People were saying back then commodities futures were a great investment because they had “equity-like” [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 15:09:09

Oil Speculators. WP: Regulators had long classified a private Swiss energy conglomerate called Vitol as a trader that primarily helped industrial firms that needed oil to run their businesses. But when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... of fuel. Even more surprising to the commodities markets was the massive size of Vitol's portfolio [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 13:45:50

Merrill’s Three ‘C’s for the Market

Could declining commodity prices be a major theme for the markets in the third quarter? Crude-oil futures are dropping like a stone this morning amid a strengthening dollar ... futures dropped as well, tumbling more than $12 to around $921 an ounce in recent Comex trading [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 14:41:09

Managed Futures Funds Gain in Popularity and Performance

Excellent article from MarketWatch.  Of course to us it’s just preaching to the choir ... of negative performance. Managed Futures funds (also referred to as Commodity Trading Advisors or CTAs ... , commodity futures and currency markets. Managers who have done well to- date this quarter have generally [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 23:09:12

Commodities Markets Expected to Stabilize in 2009

Monday, December 29, 2008 Commodities may face lingering economic pressures; ... , particularly for those who had invested in oil, futures contracts were their undoing.At the start of 2009 ... demand and they need present demand," said Matt Zeman, head trader at LaSalle Futures in Chicago. "Until [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 02:50:00

Speculators not to blame

In certain quarters people keep arguing that the surging oil and food prices are caused by speculative international investments in these commodities. People who understand how the market is working have always maintained that the principle effect of commodity futures is beneficial because they smooth extreme swings of prices [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 05:22:11

Bullish Percents sing from the same hymn sheet

Bulls got another endorsement with all three Bullish Percents generating bullish crosses of their 5-day EMAs ... between tops for each sector: Look for yields to rise first, then the stock market, then commodity prices. Get the Fallond Newsletter Dr. Declan Fallon, Senior Market Technician, Zignals.com the free [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 09:19:31

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

The Worm Turns, and Fertilizer Stocks Suffer

Rob Curran has this report on the recent stumbles of the market’s favored high-fliers. Remember the rally in commodity and agricultural stocks that would never end because the world ... traders took cover from the second-quarter sell-off, have flipped into the loser column in the first [more...]

Date: 2008-07-08 16:18:07

Closing Enron Loophole Would Drop Oil Prices 25% - 50% Overnight

The way Republicans tell it, the minute we start drilling off the coasts of California, Florida and elsewhere, the price of gas will go down ... for the Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC), the government board that oversees commodities markets: “Yes ... follows.) The Enron Loophole is the nickname for a provision written into the [more...]

Date: 2008-06-22 18:55:04

Lawsuit Targets Banks With Novel Tactic

Some Cleveland neighborhoods have a message for banks that abandon their foreclosed houses or unload them at fire sale prices to speculators: ... go downhill from there: “The vacant property enters the cheap housing ‘commodity’ market, where ... , sometimes for less than $1,000 - the housing equivalent of trading in ‘penny stocks.’ “The vast majority [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 08:11:08

Learn About Commodity Trading

Have you ever heard investors mention speculating in futures of the commodity market and wondered what it they are talking about? While most of us are familiar with investing in stocks, commodities can be an interesting way to have your money make money for you. But first, you might ask what is a commodity? commodities [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 17:43:07

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05Jan09 How Good is Our Standard? By garisgaris Categories: Professionalism, digesting news, idea, indonesian economy, ... a comfortable state of being.                                                 Halle Berry quotes, 42 ... our commodity standard to be. In marketing study, it is a mainstream idea to follow what costumer demands [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 09:00:03

Veteran regulator Mary Schapiro tapped to lead SEC - MarketWatch

Obama picks Mary Schapiro for SEC chief -Former Goldman Sachs official Gensler to head CFTC By Ronald D. Orol, MarketWatch Last update: 2:27 p.m ... and former Treasury undersecretary Gary Gensler to run the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, which regulates trading in the commodities markets. 'Financial regulatory reform will be a top priority [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 21:04:20

A critique of the market as optimal system, and remedies for the meltdown

Why is it that: “The need for a pervasive, permanent role of government in directing investment also emerges from more recent studies of economic ... outcomes rests on Pareto optimality, an absurdly narrow definition of social goals. A proposal ... competition only leads to the right outcomes if everything that matters is a marketable commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 12:48:22

My Advice For President-Elect Obama

This week's group writing project at The Finance Blog Network is to give President-elect Barack Obama advice on what to do about the economy, ... importantly)As you know, all three of these markets have taken severe lumps. In fact, housing and commodities suffered bubble-bursting, while the stock market, whose bubble burst in 2001, only got back [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 20:39:17

HOT POSNER | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog Constant ABC presence Rupert Posner takes a break from hanging by the pool in tropical Poland to chat ... available under any future trading system introduced by President-elect Barack Obama. Bankers are broadly ... that could grow into the largest commodity market in the world. Heavily emitting companies [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 21:19:59

WALL STREET CLOSES OUT 2008 WITH LIGHT GAINS

BY KEN SWEET As Wall Street prepares to close out its worst year since the Great Depression, stocks posted light gains Wednesday after traders got a labor market report that came in better ... of Christmas. In the commodity markets, oil gained $2.29 to $41.34 a barrel in New York while gold [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 18:43:54

Waiting for Gustav

Investors in energy markets are nervously watching the path of Gustav, ... , commodity trading advisor at MF Global. “Now, markets are nervous, so it’s a reason to buy ... at Alaron Trading. “With demand already being poor [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 17:30:06

Shadow Market

I don’t pretend to understand this, but it sounds pretty interesting ... to recapitalize my balance sheet, how would I do it? Through gross manipulation of commodity markets ... , dishonesty, and disloyalty to shareholders, and you care about the future of the United States, I urge [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 14:52:03

A blast from the past

Niall Ferguson imagined what a repeat of the sequence of events which led to the collapse of the first era of globalization would look like if ... in the crisis. Most U.S. commodity markets had to suspend trading, as did most European foreign ... in 1773. The New York market reopened for limited trading (bonds for cash only) on November 28 [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 14:49:47

How to Sell 'American Teen': Psst, Don't Mention the "D" Word

Filed under: Documentary, Movie Marketing, Images, Cinematical Indie, Paramount Vantage, ... the wisdom of selling documentary subjects as marketable commodities. A new poster took a different ... Angeles Times, Mark Olsen examines the marketing challenge in detail. Among other things, he quotes [more...]

Date: 2008-07-18 00:52:02

An Imperfect Storm of Lousy Excuses

Sebastian Junger caused it all. Blame him for the subprime mess. The banks meltdown. Gang violence in American cities. The collapse of the commodities market in western Australian. A fish kill in Pennsylvania ... . Wall Street investment bankers, who once might have considered their own short term greed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 15:15:30

Oil Prices and Speculation

The Washington Post says the scale of speculative activity in commodities markets is larger than previous estimates indicated: A Few Speculators Dominate Vast Market for Oil Trading, by David Cho, Washington Post ... helped industrial firms that needed oil to run their businesses. But when the Commodity Futures [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 07:42:00

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