Editors Choice
India is among the top producers of a large number of commodities and is also a major consumer of precious metals and energy.
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Cover Story
Trading in organised commodities is not new to
India but has gained prominence only after the government allowed futures trading in the early 2000s. The nature of commodity trade in India has since undergone tremendous change. At present, there is a two-tier structure for commodity
exchanges in India: regional and country-wide.
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Economy Canvas
The annual rate of inflation as measured by the WPI on a point-to-point basis stood at 3.07 per cent (provisional), for the week ending October 4 - a five year low - as against a much higher 5.4 per cent during the same period of the previous year and 3.26 per cent during the previous week.
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Exchange Insight
Gold continues to hold a firm grip on the top spot. Zinc is out of the top five while lead is the new entrant. Other slots remain the same
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Global Markets
Base metals complex traded mixed with copper, zinc, lead incurring losses and aluminium,
nickel, tin gaining. Prices fell or saw limited gains as China belying expectations failed to buy after the end of Chinese holidays. Dollar volatility, poor results by US financial institutions and September's weak US housing numbers kept buyers aloof. Aluminium was fairly positive on inventory drawdown and nickel improved on deficit and expectations of better stainless steel demand.
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Spot Light
Historically, sugar is one of the most widely-traded commodities in the world, accounting for about 2 per cent of the global dry cargo market. Sugar is available in two forms: raw sugar and mill white sugar.
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Commodity Trend
Precious metals are showing strong recovery after a six month long weakness in prices starting February this year.
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Market Review
Precious metals surged to record highs on soaring
crude oil prices and a volatile dollar. eopolitical tensions in the Middle East also increased attractiveness of the bullions as a safe haven investment.
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Quick News
The National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) has announced the final settlement prices (FSP) for red chilli, maize and turmeric for October contract.
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Trade Mechanics
In the previous issue, we discussed FMC’s role in curbing illegal trading, kinds of offences and delivery in futures contracts. In this issue, we shall present some frequently asked questions with regard to different types of contracts, the participants in forward and future contracts and several types of risks, courtesy FMC
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Special Series
Presented here is Part 2 of the report published by The Economic Research Service of The USDA. The previous issue of Commodity Canvas carried a brief overview of the study
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Astro Speak
As per stars, weeks 44-45 are expected to be highly volatile for world futures market, especially for agro-based commodities, but positive for the stock market and bullion.
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Coffee Break
While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster.”
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Crop Weather
Kharif crop is in the flowering/milking /grain
formation stage in Chhattisgarh, WB, Bihar,
TN, Assam, Maharashtra, MP, AP, Uttarakhand, Gujarat, UP and Jharkhand. Crop is grain maturity/ harvesting stage in Punjab, MP, Orissa and Haryana. Samba Rice in TN is in vegetative stage. Dry weather is seen over most of India.
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Event Watch
November 01-16, 2007
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Interview
In general, there is good demand for nonferrous
metals in the domestic markets, given the good economic growth that we are currently witnessing.
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