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'High food prices are here to stay' |
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Small size of land holdings, lack of organisation, inadequate physical infrastructure, multi-layered and inefficient marketing systems etc are the major problems being faced by India farmers, says Donald M Taylor |
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Futures ban: Commodity market under threat |
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By Harish G
Time and again suspension of future commodities trade to tame the domestic inflation will dilute the basic objective of introducing futures trade in India. |
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Monsoon crops Vs Monsoon in India |
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By Sajith Kumar
NEW DELHI: Depleted farmers in the country are eagerly awaiting the arrival of southwesterly monsoon to try their luck once again on the monsoon crops. |
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Editorial: Storm in a Rice Bowl |
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By Binu Alex
Rice prices are soaring across the globe. And, the ongoing scramble for rice should show us that in the end, food is still the primary commodity. |
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Why Gold is succumbing to selling pressure |
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By Jon Nadler
Gold prices succumbed to intensifying selling pressure on Tuesday and once again failed to react to fresh highs being set in the crude and heating oil markets. |
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Can Elliot’s Wave understand rising crude oil better? |
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By Mohit Khanna
The Elliot's wave principle posits that collective investor psychology (or crowd psychology) moves from optimism to pessimism and back again. |
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Why it is foolish to create Fuel from Food |
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By Sol Palha
The sad part about trying to create fuel from food is that it unfairly drives the prices of all food crops higher; farmers abandon planting regular crops in favour of the ones that are paying the most. |
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Achieving price convergence in spot and futures |
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By Naima Kazmi
The main purpose of this article is to highlight the role that price convergence plays in a futures market, and in doing so it attempts: to define price convergence; to outline the process through which it occurs; |
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Can Futures ban bring down Inflation in India? |
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By Karthik Kumar
MUMBAI: Will banning futures trading in agricultural commodities bring down the spiralling inflation in India? It looks the Manmohan Singh government is 'politically convinced' that futures is the cause behind price rise in food items. |
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Where there is money, there is Gold |
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By Dr S P Sharmai
The important linkage of gold with the global financial system enhances its role which it can play in the overall development of an economy. |
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Why America continues to irritate India |
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By Ziad P S
US wanted India to evade the contract with Iran and put forth alternative options at India in order to keep peace with Iran, a country US alleges a threat to the world. |
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Why Crude Oil and Copper are on fire |
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By Renisha Chainani
Crude had negative correlation with Dollar and had been rising through 5 years on weakness of Dollar and Crude also made a record high at $111.8 on same day. |
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What does a Central Bank do? |
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By Adrian Ash
If the United States can't borrow cheap at the long end, then they'll just go to the short end for cheap money instead. |
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Keep Futures, don’t neglect Spot markets |
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By Nirendra Dev
The cat is probably out of the bag and the hyped Abhijit Sen panel directed by Manmohan Singh government to study links between commodity trading and inflation in its report did not recommend ban on futures trading. |
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Indians, don't eat! Let US eat well! |
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By Bhoolchuk Levidevi
The US is worried over a food crisis that is ballooning over its own territory. But the US has always protected large corporations some of which fell apart.
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Fund a Green Revolution, or people will starve |
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By Debora MacKenzie
Scientists who run three of the world's leading international agricultural research labs say the worldwide surge in food prices is a predictable result of the neglect of agricultural research over the past two decades. |
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America's global bullmarket hegemony |
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By Clive Maund
The United States, more than any other country, is an economy dependant on an abundant supply of cheap oil |
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Indian credit system should undergo an overhaul |
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By V Leeladhar
While talking about consolidation in the Indian milieu, it is important to bear in mind that there is diversity of the governing statutes applicable to different entities in the Indian credit system. |
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India's role as a global partner |
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By Dr Y V Reddy
We are optimistic about a continued mutually beneficial engagement with the global economy. Indians are providing services in various parts of the world – U.S.A., Middle East, U.K. and East Asia |
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Why Gold is no longer a hedge against inflation |
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By David Galland
What if the gold bull market is already over? After all, since touching an all-time high (in non-inflation-adjusted dollars) of $1,034 on March 17th, gold fell back as low as $874.75, a drop of 15.5%.
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