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By Swansy Afonso, Bloomberg |
May 13, 2013
Gold imports by India, the world’s biggest consumer, may soar this quarter as a plunge in prices spurs demand for jewelry, coins and bars during the country’s biggest bullion festival, a jewelers’ group said.
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By Alasdair Macleod |
May 10, 2013
Attention is now firmly focused on Chinese and Indian demand for gold, which between them is absorbing all non-Asian mine supply. Chinese net purchases of gold totaled 320.54 tonnes in the first quarter 2013.
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By Debarati Roy and Whitney McFerron, Bloomberg |
May 8, 2013
Gold futures posted the biggest gain in almost two weeks as demand for bars and jewelry increased in India and China, the world’s largest consumers of the metal.
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By Pratik Parija, Bloomberg |
April 23, 2013
A rush by Indian consumers to buy gold jewelry and coins after the biggest plunge in prices in three decades is prompting jewelers to offer premiums on imports as traders and banks run out of stockpiles, a trade group said.
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By Pratik Parija, Bloomberg |
April 4, 2013
India, the world’s second-biggest sugar producer, ended state curbs on sugar mills, allowing them to freely sell the sweetener in the local market for the first time in four decades.
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By Swansy Afonso |
March 20, 2013
Gold use by the world’s biggest buyer may climb for the first time in three years as rising incomes and inflation boost demand.
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By Sholom Sanik |
February 25, 2013
Recent developments in India are very bullish and are being completely ignored by the sugar market. Severe drought will affect the 2013-14 crop to the extent that the key growing regions will see acreage fall by 20% to 25%.
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By Sholom Sanik |
January 31, 2013
Sugar prices have fallen to two-and-a-half year lows amid forecasts for an ever expanding 2012-13 global production/consumption surplus.
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By Nicholas Larkin, Bloomberg |
January 23, 2013
Physical gold demand has been unusually strong for this time of year, with “good buying” from Southeast Asia, according to Standard Bank Plc.
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By Jon Nadler |
January 22, 2013
Analysts at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs have scaled back gold price forecasts, especially in the longer-term, as the underpinnings of its bull market are being called into question.
