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Biofuels: Whose cry for food shall be answered? |
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Commodity Online
Production is growing, but population is growing faster. If production is less than demand, then how do people get enough food? |
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Rice: The price you pay |
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By Sreekumar Raghavan
Rising prices, increasing consumption and shrinking production may make rice a rare commodity soon |
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40 ways to help you survive and prosper in Gold |
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By Jim Sinclair
The US dollar is garbage, the state of the US fiscally is parlous and other commodities, particularly oil, are on fire. But gold is traded with balls. |
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Check Gold purity with Carat meter and be safe |
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Commodity Online
MUMBAI: A recent survey by Bureau of Indian Standards in Delhi revealed that there was indeed cheating on the part of jewelers and consumers were getting much lesser value for gold for the amount they pay. |
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Steel: Why steel is a hot commodity in India |
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Commodity Online
MUMBAI: India's steel industry is surging ahead, entering into global deals and taking the country's economy to new heights. The Indian government plans to invest over US$ 350 billion in steel industries related to infrastructure and construction. |
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India's experiments with inflation |
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Commodity Online
Since the weightage of edible oils in WPI index is only 2.5 per cent and with steel, metals, crude oil prices, commodity prices ruling high, it will not be reflected in the inflation rates. |
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Food crisis :The need to go beyond blame game |
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By Ziad P S
Even knowing the root causes of the grievous situation, the developed countries are ignoring the fact in order to ensure their internal availability |
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Global carbon credit market doubles in a year |
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The market that enables companies to buy and sell the right to pollute doubled in value in 2007. |
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Akshaya Tritiya: Gold sales may touch 70 tonnes |
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Commodity Online
Last year, gold sales touched 55 tonnes during Akshaya Tritiya. WGC estimates say 5 per cent of India's total gold consumption of about 750 tonnes is sold on this auspicious day alone |
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Rice is dear to us, Mr Bush! |
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By Nirendra Dev
US President George W. Bush blaming the ‘wealthy’ lifestyle of India’s huge middle class for the spiraling global food prices endorsing his Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice views only adds insult to the injury for Indians.
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One US hamburger=5 lb of rice and 20 meals |
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By Nalini Singh
The amount of energy needed to make 1 hamburger in US = amount of energy required to grow about 5 lb of rice. 5 lb of rice would feed 1 person atleast 20 meals. |
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How China makes $400 billion out of a $4 billion |
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By Justice Litle
Winston Churchill once called Russia “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” |
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Blooming roses under technology mission |
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By Khagendramani Pradhan
The Department of Horticulture and Cash Crop Development since then has been putting in untiring efforts to ensure that this Centrally Aided Technology Mission for growing Rose |
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Why Commodities are rotating into Equities |
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By Jon Nadler
Rotation out of commodities and apparently into equities (the Dow gained nearly 200 points) continues to be the name of the game after the implied Fed signal. |
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A for apple, B for ball... S for Sensex! |
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Commodity Online
The schools are dangling money in front of students as a way of getting their attention. |
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Is race for biofuel criminal? |
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Commodity Online
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva blasted wealthy nations for their punitive agricultural tariffs and urged them to buy Brazilian biofuel. |
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A Chicken and Maize problem in India |
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By Sreekumar Raghavan
Poultry and maize industry share a sort of symbiotic relationship. Both need each other to grow. Maize constitutes more than 70-80 percent of the poultry feed. An increase prices of maize will lead to increased production costs for chicken. |
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Fixing credit bubble by intruding cheap money |
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By Adrian Ash
In economics, as in life, the hangover reflects the party. Creating artificial demand is sure to create exactly the situation we're in today.
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America is strung out on Ben Bernanke's junk |
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By Adrian Ash
The United States is strung out on Ben Bernanke's junk, first peddled by Alan Greenspan when Bill Clinton's White House proclaimed "It's the economy, stupid!" |
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'Kapada' to make a hole in your pocket! |
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By Geena Paul
Cotton is taking its cue from whatever the other commodity markets are doing.
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