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- Cotton Prices Tumble on Supply
- Delta Air Lines: An airline buys an oil refinery
- Make a Call on Soybeans
- Is Silver a Buy at 30?
- Gunvor: Riddles, mysteries and enigmas
- Managed Futures Returns for 2012
- Palladium is an Alternative to Gold and Platinum
- Free exchange: Petrodollar profusion
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- Global imbalances: The black hole
- Recognizing a Good Commodity Trader
- Commodities Buying Point?
- Derivatives regulation: Too few cops on the beat
Category Archives: News
Is Gold $10,000 a Possibility or Fantasy?
I’m sure everyone has heard predictions by now of gold moving to $10,000. The gold market has already proven its strength by moving higher than most people could have imagined 10 years ago. In markets like this, there is always someone … Continue reading
Food speculators
To complement Geoff’s entry on World Food Day, here is an article from the Telegraph on the effect of food speculators – more than 450 economists from 40 countries have urged G20 finance ministers to prevent financial speculation in commodity … Continue reading
Unit 1 Micro: Producing Coffee – Kenya in Pictures
If you are teaching the economics of commodity prices and coffee in particular – this resource – will appeal strongly to your visual learners! The Guardian Pictures web site has a quite stunning set of photos of Kenyan coffee producers … Continue reading
A look at economic developments around the globe
A look at economic developments around the globe A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Monday: —— BUDAPEST, Hungary — Credit ratings agency Moody’s downgraded Hungary’s government bonds by two notches, citing worries … Continue reading