Commodities

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1)The Indian safeguards agreement, which the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) is set to approve on Friday, will mark the first time a United Nations body recognises the reality, if not the legitimacy, of India possessing nuclear weapons.
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2)THE wholesale price index-based annual rate of inflation has inched towards the 12% mark. Increase in the prices of some food articles and manufactured products pushed inflation to a 13-year high of 11.98% for the week ended July 19.  The rise prompted economists to predict another 25-basis-point hike in the central bank’s short-term lending rates.  But going by the recent trend in revised numbers, inflation may have crossed the 12% mark.
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3)Consolidated Construction Consortium Ltd(CCCL), an integrated construction service provider with an interest in industrial, commercial, residential, and infrastructure space, has bagged two prestigious civil works order worth Rs 240 crore.  The orders are of Renault-Nissan automobile plant […]

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i’m considering betting on the dollar and want to know what etf goes directly proportionate to its value against the euro and pound. thanks

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 Goldcorp Inc. (GG) and Gold Eagle Mines Ltd. (GEA.TO) today announced an agreement whereby Goldcorp will acquire, through a friendly plan of arrangement, all outstanding shares of Gold Eagle. Gold Eagle’s principal asset is the world class Bruce Channel gold discovery which is situated along the prolific Red Lake Trend, adjacent to Goldcorp’s Red Lake gold mine and immediately southwest of Goldcorp’s past-producing Cochenour-Willans Mine. This … [visit site to read more] Article Published O

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Salida Capital Quick Quote 1. The housing crisis in the US is deflationary 2. It will be met with unparalleled monetary and fiscal stimulus 3. The end result will be another round of reflation 4. This will eventually lead to an even more inflationary environment 5. Supply constraints on most commodities will keep long-term prices higher than consensus estimates 6. Hard assets will eventually get a re-rating as their earnings power relative to the overall market is recognized and as investors

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Energy collapse.  Financials recovery.  Those were the two themes that pushed REAP to a 4.1% monthly absolute gain in July, and it’s XXX% lead increase over the S&P500 in 2008 (after adjustment for the switch to make the S&P500 total return the benchmark instead of the index price as done up until now).  Natural gas did a spectalur face-plant, oil pulled back 16% or so from it’s high, and grains took a hit as well, boosting the heavily weighted short ETFs.  After regulators banned nake

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From Beads To Binary: The History Of Computing (Investopedia via Yahoo! Finance) July 31st, 2008 Investing today couldnt happen without the inventions of yesterday. Learn more here. Posted in Technical Analysis | No Comments » « Older Entries Tagsbreak-out buy charting charts Commodities currencies currency Dow Jones elliott wave EUR euro Fibonacci forex Fundamentals Futures fx index indicator MACD metals options pattern pre-market QQQQ rally resistance S&P sell short-

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Until recently, the best way for individuals to gain exposure to commodities was through exchange-traded index funds such as IGE. Unfortunately, the exposure was indirect as you were essentially investing in the equity of companies that dealt in commodities. In the case of IGE, you were mostly holding the stocks of oil-companies. As of 2008, there are better commodity index funds, such as GSG (the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index) which gives you direct exposure to a broad array of commodities. E

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Spread bets on gold pricesPrecious metals are doing well in commodities trading, and this should be figured into financial spread betting strategy. Spread bets on gold prices should consider that oil prices are rising, and gold often follows oil higher. Another factor affecting gold prices is the fact that the US dollar is dropping against the euro in forex trading. Gold prices often move inversely to the US dollar performance against the euro. Other precious metals are doing well also in comm

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Exxon Mobil has posted the largest quarterly profit ever for a corporation in the United States: $11.68 billion.  The company held the previous record and this is beginning to sound like a broken record! Exxon Mobil’s record earnings should come as no surprise, as they were mainly driven by record crude oil prices.  The second quarter results revealed that revenues were up 40 percent and profits were up 14 percent but, shares of oil company are trading down today because investors and analyst

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Informative Overview of Dighton Capital USA Vision has endeavored for the past several years to find a CTA for our recommended CTA list who is a diversified futures trader with an affordable account minimum. Up until now, most of our recommended traders focused on writing options on the S&P 500. We are pleased to announce that our persistence in finding a CTA who trades liquid futures markets and meets our requirements to be placed on our recommended list has paid off! Vision has now adde

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