http://www.commodityonline.com/ India's largest commodity news portal en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:43:33 GMT 60 Copyright: (C) 2007 Commodity Online India Limited. All Rights Reserved. http://www.commodityonline.com/images2008/commodity_logo.jpg http://www.commodityonline.com/ 144 27 Visit CommodityOnline.com http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Commodity-TrendsSet-for-trading-beyond-midnight-22538-3-1.html Two commodity bourses are planning to start trading beyond mid night hours subject to regulatory approval. They feel commodities of a global nature need such facilities for investors to gain from market developments. Turnover in comexes have surged 31% till October this fiscal. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Vietnam-pepper-exports-down-in-Sep-22503-3-1.html Vietnam s Pepper Association said the country has exported 10 901 tones of pepper in Sep in which 8 905 tones was black pepper and 1 996 tones of white pepper gaining $32.1 million. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Commodities-What-is-triggering-selling-in-sugar-22451-3-1.html Recent strength in the U.S. dollar triggered selling in sugar in spite of tight world supplies. March sugar closed down .72 at 21.93. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Vietnam-now-world-s-leading-cashew-exporter-22345-3-1.html Vietnam has exported 131 000 tones of cashew till September this year earning $614 million of export turnover according to country s Agriculture ministry. Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Commodity-TrendsAgri-contracts-attract-investors-22330-3-1.html Now agri commodity contracts have become the stars in the India futures market as its volumes have surged by over 60%. Leading comex MCX has introduced four new agri contracts in wheat Chana guarseed and turmeric. Inflation is up on rise in prices of food and manufactured items. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/India-inflation-rises-to-1-21-percent-22237-3-1.html India s inflation rate based on the whole sale price index rose to 1.21 percent for the week ended October 10 compared to last week s 0.92. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/India-inflation-data-now-available-monthly-22146-3-1.html Indian government on Monday approved a proposal to release wholesale prices based inflation data on a monthly basis instead of every week now and changed the base year to 2004 05 from 1993 94. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Commodity-Trends-Gold-rallies-copper-in-pressure-22115-3-1.html The rally in crude oil and gold has once again brought back the focus on commodities as returns now look attractive to investors. Gold rally is now more currency driven than inflation driven while decline in US inventories helped crude oil trade above $78. Copper is facing pressure from the extended gains in dollar versus the Euro. COMEX copper warehouse stocks went up 135 short tons on Thursday bringing total levels to 56 852 short tons. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Why-prices-of-soft-commodities-are-falling-22050-3-1.html In the last twelve months wheat corn soybeans and the prices of many soft commodities and foodstuffs have fallen at the wholesale level. This has been due to a cool and rainy summer in the Midwestern U.S. and in Europe and a strong soy crop in Brazil. The old saying held true in 2009 rain makes grain . The exception has been sugar which has risen in price due to crop issues in Brazil and India. Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/MCX-PwC-release-Commodity-Yearbook-2009-22040-3-1.html MCX India s No. 1 commodity exchange and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on Wednesday jointly released Commodity Insights Yearbook 2009 . Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/NCDEX-keeps-10-special-margin-on-turmeric-futures-21994-3-1.html India based National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) has revised the special margin imposed on all turmeric contracts trading in order to avoid volatility. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Commodity-Trends-Record-set-in-currency-futures-21880-3-1.html India's currency futures recorded the highest ever volumes this week on NSE and MCX SX put together thanks to rupee rising against the dollar. ICEX promoted by MMTC and IndiaBulls have got the final nod from FMC for beginning operations while MCX is out to spread awareness of futures trading. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT