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Coffee, Soybeans: Two Lessons With a Message


Once again, I sit down to talk with Jeffrey Kennedy, Elliott Wave International’s Senior Commodity Analyst and editor of our Futures Junctures Service. – Jeffrey, the ongoing credit contraction – a.k.a. liquidity crisis – has not spared commodities. Just glancing at the long-term charts you show in the Wave Watch section of your October Monthly Futures [...]

Hong Kong relaunches gold futures


Hong Kong (Platts)–20Oct2008
Gold futures in Hong Kong relaunched trading on Monday on the back of an increased interest on gold, the Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing (HKEx) said in a statement on Monday.
Gold futures were first introduced to the Hong Kong Futures Exchange in 1980 but trading of the product was suspended in 1998. Gold [...]

Dubai’s incredible boom is still booming and real estate with it


It is a truth universally acknowledged that people have to find a home. In the Middle East that home still appears to be Dubai, and the population of the city is bulging at the seams this autumn. Could it be that demographics will offset any weakening in consumer demand from the global financial crisis in [...]

Why is the gold price falling when it should be going up?


As Daniel Gschwend explains on Seekingalpha.com there is a battle going on between the paper market for gold and the real physical stuff:
“So what’s going on in the gold market? Right now, we have a huge wave of paper gold coming into the market and therefore depressing the price of gold. I’m speaking about [...]