Commodities

Commodities: December 01, 2008

Cutbacks And Contango: There Could Be Money To Be Made Being A Contrarian Investor Right Now

Somebody somewhere will like as not be keeping a detailed record of all the production cutbacks that have been announced. In fact there will probably be lots of analysts tracking that data. But whether all the announcements will

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Commodities: November 26, 2008

Richard Lockwood Reckons We’re Back Where We Started, But This Time Round He’s Far More Scared

“Where are we now? We’re back where we started.” So says Richard Lockwood, manager of London’s City Natural Resources fund - now part of CQS - a man who rode the recent commodities boom upwards in some style, and who appears to

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Commodities: November 24, 2008

How Do You Price Commodities In This Market? Like The Boring Industrial Components They Are

The way the world relates to commodities is a little bit schizophrenic. On the one hand they are vital to our modern way of life and need to be extracted, processed and consumed to be of any use. On the other hand some view them

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Commodities: November 16, 2008

As Governments Attempt To Stimulate Demand By Investing In The Basic Fabric Of Modern Society, Miners Wisely Cut Capacity

A gathering of the great and the good from the largest 20 economies on earth this weekend in Washington will doubtless have kept many journalists occupied. But will it have solved anything or produced any remedies for the global

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Minews Story, Commodities: November 12, 2008

Richard Elman At Commodities Trading House Noble Group Reckons He Can See The Bottom Of This Market

Richard Elman is “seeing the bottom”. That’s either a very clever trick from a man with an office in a high-rise overlooking the murky waters of Hong Kong harbour, or good news for investors in mining shares. The latter is the

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