Features, Commodities: September 02, 2008
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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Features: August 29, 2008
This week features Dominic Frisby talking to James Turk of GoldMoney, Mish Shedlock of Global Economic Anaylsis and Michael Hampton of Global Edge Investors.
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Features: August 21, 2008
Sunny Tropicana: not a holiday destination but the site of a potentially significant new gold project that could become the scene of groundbreaking developments in mine solar power generation in Australia. Certainly, 70 per cent
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Features: August 18, 2008
What have we learned from this year’s Diggers and Dealers? For one thing, the mood grew visibly more downbeat as the week went on. Diggers is up there in the first rank of international mining conferences, but this year, as the
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Features, Commodities: August 18, 2008
The commodity bull market has a long way to go. This bull market is not magic. It's not some crazy "cycle theory" I have. It does not fall out of the sky. It's supply and demand. It's simple stuff.
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Features: August 14, 2008
Bringing the crops through to harvest is difficult enough this century. Weather patterns have created havoc for farmers the breadth of the globe. For the Georgia farmers for whom, against the trends elsewhere, growing conditions
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Features: August 13, 2008
Much has been written in the media about the impact of skyrocketing labour and other input costs in mature metal mining markets. However, in this time of seemingly insatiable Chinese demand, high costs are not the concern; lost
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Features: August 12, 2008
Many years ago, when I was working at the Financial Times, there was a file on a colleague’s desk that grew fatter by the week. “What’s that?” I asked one day. “That’s my pension. One day I’m going to write a book about De
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Features: July 22, 2008
Glancing back over the expert opinions of a random selection of UK investment gurus down the years, you’d be forgiven for having made the assumption that China was and is having an arbitrary lease of economic good fortune before
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Features: July 09, 2008
Full year financial results have just come out from Avocet Mining. Apart from a US$36 million hit taken by the company on a slightly obscure hedging arrangement, they look pretty good. Cash flow’s up, production from continuing
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