http://www.commodityonline.com/ India's largest commodity news portal en-us Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:20:48 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/Is-Gold-at-$1500-plus-utter-nonsense-talk-23082-3-1.html The beauty of getting in something relatively early is different. Gold has made a good run over the last eight years but the biggest money will likely be made in the next eight years as a lot more money piles into the utter nonsense that is gold. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/India-gets-ready-for-a-tighter-monetary-policy-23046-3-1.html The conflict now is between growth drivers which need a continuation of stimulus measures and inflation concerns which call for an early exit. That is why a well thought out exit strategy is needed to deal with the issues of both sustained growth as well as financial discipline Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Blame-imports-for-Indias-pulses-inflation-22994-3-1.html The cobweb theorem doesn't quite apply to Indian pulses as higher prices need not necessarily attract more farmers to this crop due to lack of technology interventions and lesser productivity when compared to food grains such as wheat and rice. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/The-ETF-revolution-that-Schwab-has-unveiled-22974-3-1.html The operating costs of the Schwab ETFs aren t just cheaper than other ETFs. They re also a fraction of what actively managed mutual funds in the same classes have been charging for years! Back in 1990's Schwab had revolutionised the mutual funds sector Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/The-financial-crisis-from-an-Indian-perspective-22896-3-1.html India has traditionally been a supply constrained economy in contrast to advanced economies which are demand starved. The supply constraints which remained subdued during the crisis period due to weak demand will re emerge and may indeed become binding Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/SFURTI-and-REMOT-to-modernise-Indian-coir-22815-3-1.html With a view to making the traditional industries more productive and competitive and facilitating their sustainable development the Government launched two new schemes :Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI) Rejuvenation Modernisation Technology Upgradation of the Coir Industry (REMOT) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/The-tale-of-rising-gold-and-falling-gold-stocks-22771-3-1.html The important thing to remember about gold stocks is that they represent hybrid investments. Like any equity a portion of their returns will reflect traders' sentiments about the issuers' financial as well as its management team the general equity market conditions and other idiosyncratic factors. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Leading-economic-indicators-suggest-recovery-22728-3-1.html The Leading Economic Indicators (LEI) doesn t differentiate between genuine growth and government stimulus based growth. And the stock market doesn t care either at least in the short to medium term as the monster rally off of the March lows has shown. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Why-US-is-not-facing-hyper-inflation-22696-3-1.html Despite pumping trillions of dollars into the US economy core inflation which denotes consumer prices without food and energy costs has actually decreased from 2008. There are several reasons why there is no hyper inflation including banks hoarding cash and US exporting inflation to China. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Ride-the-commodity-wave-through-stocks-ETFs-22653-3-1.html The commodities bull has already run a long way. Since Jan. 1 gold is up 20% silver is up 50% copper is up 100% oil is up 110% coal is up 90% and iron ore is up 60%. In a year of deep recession that's a pretty good run. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/How-far-will-Obama-let-the-Oil-bubble-go-22600-3-1.html While that disparity between stock gains and gas gains may have been thin compared to what was coming it did indeed presage the collapse we usually credit to the unwinding of overpriced tech stocks. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.commodityonline.com/news/Global-economy-is-firing-at-all-cylinders-22569-3-1.html The global upswing one year after the financial crisis is stronger than most investors realise. China's third quarter GDP is rising at 12% quarterly while leading US indicators are rising at its fastest pace since 1983. Canadian retail sales are up 3% annualised. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT