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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.
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By Isis Almeida, Bloomberg |
January 21, 2013
Cocoa swung between gains and losses in London as investors weighed improving prospects for the smaller of two annual crops in Ivory Coast, the world’s largest producer, and declining exchange stockpiles.
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By Siddhartha Singh, Swansy Afonso and Tushar Dhara, Bloomberg |
January 21, 2013
India, the world’s largest bullion buyer, raised taxes on gold imports to reduce a record current-account deficit and moderate demand for the precious metal that’s rallied for 12 straight years.
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By Austin Kiddle |
December 12, 2012
The expected expansion in the Fed's balance sheet and an expected rise in inflation will support gold price. What if the Fed disappoints?
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By Sholom Sanik |
December 3, 2012
The sugar bear had a brief respite this past fall when poor harvest weather in Brazil threatened the quality and quantity of the crop.
