Commodities

Commodities: September 29, 2008

Small Cap Miners Down, Banks Down And Out: How Much Worse Can It Get?

Another week and a few more banks have collapsed or are about to. Bradford and Bingley has now joined Washington Mutual on the growing list of casualties. Gold has moved up a little, but in the face of this financial firestorm

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Commodities: September 22, 2008

The USA’s Budget Defecit Is Now Close To That Of Italy, But Luckily The USA Isn’t The Force In Metals It Once Was

The bull case for investing in gold has always been emotional, rather than being founded in adamsmithian supply and demand. Proponents argued that at some point the house of cards that represented the US financial markets would

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Commodities: September 15, 2008

The Pressure Is On Small Miners As Metals Prices Drift, But Majors May Yet Take Up The Slack

The cliché that recessions discover things accountants don’t has certainly been valid over the last week. Not content with losing Bear Stearns earlier in the year the US is now also saying goodbye to Lehman Brothers. Two

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Commodities: September 08, 2008

Russian Money Will Be Key To De-Leveraging The US Economy

Few would argue that the system in the USA offers the best example of pure capitalism that the world has. In the ten years up to last year the USA amply demonstrated how powerful the capitalist process is. It created huge amounts

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Features, Commodities: September 02, 2008

Chinese Demand For Metals Is Bouncing Around A Bit, But The Long-Term Outlook Remains Robust

The Olympics are done. What happens next? Well, for starters growth isn't going away. The Chinese economy is forecast to grow by 9.5 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to China’s State Information Center. That

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