Editors Choice
Historically, precious metals were important as currency, but are now regarded mainly as investment and industrial commodities.
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Cover Story
Silver, mirroring gold, has been on a bull run since last year. With macroeconomic factors along with fundamentals favouring the precious metal, silver is expected to remain on a high in the coming months
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Economy Canvas
The annual rate of inflation as measured by the WPI on a point-to-point basis stood at 2.97 per cent (provisional), for the week ending October 27th - a new five year low - as against a much higher 5.3 per cent during the same period of the previous year and 3.02 per cent during the previous week.
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Exchange Insight
For the Fortnight October 26 - November 09, 2007
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Global Markets
Base metals traded mixed with copper, zinc and lead losing and aluminium, nickel and tin gaining. Copper, zinc and lead were pressurised by a rise in LME warehouse stocks and absence of demand from Asia. China’s reduced October copper imports and zinc’s supply glut along with renewed credit market concerns weighed on prices. Trader’s responded by switching over to aluminium, which has long under-performed
against copper. Nickel rose on supply disruptions caused by flooding in Cuba.
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Spot Light
The demand for zinc is highly responsive to movements in the residential, construction and motor vehicle manufacturing industries. In the time to come, Zinc consumption is projected to rise particularly from the growing economies of India and China
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Commodity Trend
Pepper: Uptrend in pepper prices started since January 07 on lower crop estimates at the major producing centres and widening demand-supply gap.
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Market Review
Precious metals surged to astronomical high levels in recent days, riding on soaring crude oil prices and record weakness in the dollar.
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Quick News
NCDEX has announced the final settlement prices (FSP) of four commodities for October contracts.
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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.
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Special Series
This extract is from a report published by The Economic Research Service of the USDA. Presented here is part 3 of the report
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Astro Speak
As per stars, the weeks 43 and 44 are expected to be very volatile for futures, stock and forex markets the world over. Certain important planetary movements will be taking place during this period, like the Sun will transit from Libra to Scorpio, Saturn will be in conjunction with Ketu and Mars will be retrograde.
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Coffee Break
The surest way of attaining success is iimplementing your plans.
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Crop Weather
Kharif rice is in grain formation/ maturity
stage in Bengal, Bihar, Assam,
Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh,Gujarat, UP, Jharkhand, Sikkim, and Arunachal. The crop is in harvesting stage in AP, Punjab, MP, HP, Haryana, Orissa, and J&K.
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Event Watch
November 16-30, 2007
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Interview
The flow of global best practices into the commodity sector has proved to be a great boon, says Mr Kailash Gupta, Managing Director, National anaging Multi- Commodity Exchange (NMCE) in an interview with Mehul Dani. The NMCE is, at present, on the path of transformation
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