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Consumer Price Index Vs Inflation Reality |
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By Gary Dorsch
Dow Jones Agricultural Commodity Index, which measures a basket of corn, coffee, cotton, soybeans, soybean oil, sugar, and wheat, was up 40% in April from a year earlier.
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Why farmers are unhappy in India |
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By Mitul Shah
The traders and middlemen are always looking for a chance to squeeze the prices and get hold of our crop. The trader will find hundred of faults with quality of our crop and pressurize us to sell our crop at cheap rates. |
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Commodity Cycle can't be eliminated, it will go on |
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By Monty Guild and Tony Danaher
As I sit to write this memo, I would like to share one simple thought. This is a period of rising inflation, and rising commodity demand and we must keep our eye on the ball. There will be times when the press and the public loudly proclaim that the commodities cycle is over-done. |
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Why do investors swap gold futures for metal |
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By Adrian Ash
For investors with money to lose, physical gold bullion sits in a much-needed asset class all of its own.
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Buying assets with borrowed money is dangerous |
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By Dan Denning
Level Three assets grew by 39% in the first quarter to over $78 billion. Those investments still represent just 8.1% of the firm's total assets |
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How will consumers maintain with cheap money |
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By Adrian Ash
The rate of food price inflation is making life increasingly difficult for the millions of families already struggling to make ends meet under the weight of rising council tax bills. |
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Commodities: Let us look to India for support |
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By Jon Nadler
India ushered in the festival of Akshaya Tritiya and hopes were high that the next day or two will prove that locals are more interested in gold at current levels than they have been during Q1 of this year. |
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Akshaya Tritiya: The Golden Link |
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By Subhamoy Das
Buying gold is a popular activity on Akshaya Tritiya, as it is the ultimate symbol of wealth and prosperity. Gold and gold jewelry bought and worn on this day signify never diminishing good fortune. |
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Crude Oil fires up Gold prices |
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By Jon Nadler
A powerful rally in crude oil to a new record of $120.21 per barrel helped lift sagging spirits (and prices) in precious metals on Monday and helped gold prices advanced strongly, to within striking distance of $875. |
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US$ rally not based on fundamentals |
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The price of energy, metals, crops, and livestock are rising because the supply of those things is rising less fast than the supply of dollars (and U.S. government debt). |
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Will rice cartel help producing nations? |
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By Geena Paul
Some Asian countries, including India and Vietnam, have curbed rice exports to guarantee domestic supplies. |
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Gold reveals Dollar's purchasing power parity |
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By Brad Zigler
Back in 1883, a 60-page language guide published in Britain became the object of so much hilarity that American wit Mark Twain sang its praises as the "perfect" work of humor. |
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Dynasty of Fuel, Food and Finance |
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By Dan Denning
A strike shuts down power. Power shuts down the refinery. And if the refinery ain't refining, you don't pump crude oil to it |
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Need urgent action to escape economic disaster |
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By Adrian Ash
Two different problems with two separate causes? After the world's greatest bubble in money – with the greatest cash bail-out to follow – somehow it seems unlikely. |
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Rural employment & development through NREGA |
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By Anjani Bhushan
Scheme is helpful in providing to the rural poor additional wage employment nearest to their place of residence, increase income, and generate infrastructure for development of rural areas |
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Who pushes up your food prices? Gamblers! |
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By Geena Paul
Commodity speculation spread long ago from standard products like oil and gold to anything edible and available for trade on the Chicago Futures Exchange. |
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'Ghost lives nowhere, but everywhere' |
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By Bharatbhai Dwivedi
One can overpower these bottlenecks simply by changing plastic and like-plastic waste discarding habits and developing a habit of addressing it ‘at source’ itself |
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It is biofuel vs women now! |
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By Geena Paul
Increased production of biofuels has been cited as one of the reasons for the global surge in food prices. |
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Will the world embrace jatropha revolution? |
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By Subir Ghosh
The shrub takes three years to reach maturity but will then continue to be productive for 30 years. The plant, therefore, has become an economic shrub. |
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Government meddling in commodity futures market |
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By Julian D W Phillips
A derivative is a "paper" instrument founded on an asset. Its value is "derived" from that underlying asset, and it can be a purchase or sale of a commodity in the future |
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