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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Prieur du Plessis submits: “I think stocks are topping out, commodities are topping out and the dollar is making a bottom,” says Robert Prechter, president of Elliott Wave International and author of “ Conquer the Crash “. According to Yahoo Finance - Tech Ticker , Prechter also makes the seemingly counterintuitive argument that the dollar will rally because there’s so...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Source launches an exchange-traded product designed to track the price of oil
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Sufiy. (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stratfor raises a very serious question: in green economy of the 21st century Lithium and REE become strategic commodities . We have wrote before about "Lithium in the Core of "The Next 100 Years" , now it is time to invest in secured Lithium supply in North America. "1. Lithium is Not only in Bolivia - for those who is afraid of Lithium availability for Green Mobility revolution...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
It's not central bank gold purchases that are the key support for the metal, but the prospect of more controls on international flow of capital from the likes of Brazil, writes John Dizard
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: ETF Investing , Commodities , Stocks to Buy , Best Stocks for 2009 The Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF ( GDX ) attempts to replicate as closely as possible the price and yield performance of the Amex Gold Miners Index. GDX is in a bull market with both the long-term support line and the 200-day moving average at near $40. Although this is a volatile performer, bouncing 10 points between...
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Filed under: International markets , Competitive strategy , China , Market matters , Commodities , Headline news , Recession A few weeks ago the US government slapped import duties on Chinese manufactured tires. China shot back by launching and investigation through the World Trade Organization (WTO) of US car exports to China. Now we have round two. The US has imposed import duties of up to 99% on...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks took another dip into negative territory on Friday as investors mulled the October jobs report. The late morning sell-off has "more to do with a bit of strength in the dollar and a bit of weakness in commodities," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist, Jefferies & Co. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was recently off 13.98 points at 9,991.98. The...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Gold traded within touching distance of its record high while oil prices rose and base metals inched higher in cautious trading ahead of vital US employment data
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures Thursday ended New York floor trading higher for the fourth straight session but failed to hold to the $1,090 level as the U.S. dollar gained on some of its rivals and trading volume was light. December gold futures rose to $1,089.3 an ounce, up $2 from the prior session's settlement but off the session's highs of $1,095.2 an ounce. On Wednesday, the December...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The practice of natural gas prices mirroring crude oil is about to come to an end, due to a looming surplus in the supply of the former
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Filed under: Market matters , Money and Finance Today , Commodities , Oil , Federal Reserve , Recession Wednesday, the Fed announced that interest rates would remain at zero to 0.25% for at least the next six months. The Fed statement read as follows: "weak conditions are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period." The only change in the...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Sri Lankan central bank is buying gold to diversify its reserves and smooth out periods of dollar volatility
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iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Some companies just stand out – both in their own sectors and in the larger market. Australian firm BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) is one of them. As the largest and most diversified commodities producer in the world, BHP has leading positions in most key, low-cost, metal and mineral deposits in the world. [More...]
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Gold held near $1,100 a troy ounce after hitting a record high in the previous session while oil prices dipped and base metals edged lower
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FelixSalmon.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I've had a vague sense of late that there's a connection between the weak dollar, on the one hand, and rising asset prices, on the other. But I took some comfort in that: prices aren't really going up as much as they look, it's just that the dollar's going down, so everything looks good in dollar terms. Now, along comes Nouriel Roubini to burst my bubble. This isn't a case of the weak dollar making...
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michael77 | 12/31/2008
Forex spot market is a security or commodities market where goods, both perishable and non-perishable as well, are been sold for cash and transported at once or within a little period of time. Contracts sold on a spot market are as well successful imme...