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By Santanu Chakraborty |
September 10, 2012
The National Stock Exchange of India will offer new products to lure individual investors to counter MCX Stock Exchange's threat of its dominance of Asia’s fifth-biggest equity market.
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By Sholom Sanik |
August 31, 2012
Unfavorable weather conditions in June and part of July in the world’s two largest sugar producers threatened to compromise 2012-13 production. Improved weather stabilized the situation, ending fears of a global deficit.
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By Jon Nadler |
August 27, 2012
The four principal precious metals are flashing the “overbought” signal in the wake of last week’s “Fedphoria-induced” rallies. Additionally, the GOP ignited a firestorm debate over the viability of returning to the gold standard.
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By Prabhudatta Mishra, Bloomberg |
August 16, 2012
Rice production in India, the world’s second-biggest grower, is poised to slump from a record as the worst monsoon since 2009 reduces planting, potentially lowering exports and boosting global prices.
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By Jon Nadler |
August 8, 2012
Gold continues to trade with the single currency with little physical interest. So far, gold has failed to attract any safe-haven inflows, instead trading as any other risk asset and in line with the broader market sentiment
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By Jason Webb and Leon Lazaroff, Bloomberg |
August 6, 2012
Emerging-market stocks rose to the strongest level in almost three months as concern over Europe’s debt crisis eased and as better-than-estimated U.S. corporate earnings boosted the outlook for exporters.
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By Jon Nadler |
August 1, 2012
While gold prices have held above the $1,600 pivot level, the action in either direction has been anything but orderly, and it often has not take more than a hint of a delay in easing actions by the Fed or the ECB to send enthusiasm withering.
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By Sholom Sanik |
July 25, 2012
Indian sugar crops rely heavily on the amount of precipitation received from the June-through-September monsoon rains. From June 1 through July 23 the rains were 22% below average.
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By Jon Nadler |
July 23, 2012
The new trading week was off to a rocky start in precious metals as, despite only a relatively small, 0.20% advance in US dollar (to just above 83.80 on the index) the complex headed for lower price ground overnight.
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By Pratik Parija, Bloomberg |
July 20, 2012
The rice harvest in India, the world’s second-biggest producer, is set to drop from an all-time high as the weakest monsoon in three years slows planting, potentially boosting global prices. Futures climbed for the first time in four days.
