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By Shruti Singh and Liezel Hill, Bloomberg |
September 25, 2012
Caterpillar Inc., the world’s biggest construction and mining equipment maker, cut its forecast for 2015 earnings after commodity producers reduced capital expenditure.
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By Joseph Ciolli and David Goodman, Bloomberg |
September 13, 2012
The dollar fell to the weakest in seven months versus the yen amid speculation the Federal Reserve will announce bond buying to bolster the economy in a program of quantitative easing that tends to debase the currency.
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By David Biller, Bloomberg |
August 31, 2012
Brazil’s economy in the second quarter showed signs that it’s turning the corner after a year of stagnation as government stimulus measures help offset the impact of the global crisis.
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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 Sholom Sanik |
August 2, 2012
If the two principal fundamental factors that guide this market continue to develop in the direction they’ve been moving over the past several months, even a strong US stock market will not keep copper prices above $3 per pound.
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By Shruti Singh, Bloomberg |
July 24, 2012
Caterpillar Inc., the second-best performer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average earlier this year, has become one of the index’s biggest losers as slowing global economic growth prompts analysts to cut profit estimates.
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By Joe Richter, Bloomberg |
June 21, 2012
Graham Tuckwell, who created a $125 billion market in exchange-traded gold in less than a decade, is struggling to convince regulators and investors he can do the same for industrial metals.
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By Nicholas Larkin, Bloomberg |
May 29, 2012
The first drop in platinum mine supply in four years and record car sales, the biggest source of demand, are reducing a surplus of the metal and shoring up prices on the brink of a bear market.
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By Eduard Gismatullin and Jeremy van Loon, Bloomberg |
May 22, 2012
Chad Porter wants to run his 18- wheeler trucks on frozen natural gas along a highway that crosses Canada’s Rocky mountains even before the world’s longest chain of refueling stations gets built to keep them fueled.
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By Michael J. McFarlin |
May 1, 2012
There now are a number of ways of accessing metals. Here are the pros and cons of some of the most popular vehicles.
