Category: Commodity News

This report summarizes hedge funds’ futures and moves in commodities, currencies, and financials until Tuesday, October 19. A week in which risk appetite returned with a vengeance, sending the S&P 500 up 4% and the

Cotton prices were previously this high in July of 2011. In 2011, we needed a prayer meeting,” Levi Strauss CEO Chip Bergh said. Bergh recounted how he had recently joined the denim store and was

Oil prices dipped on Wednesday as the Chinese government stepped up measures to control record high coal prices and guarantee coal mines work at total capacity as part of Beijing’s efforts to alleviate a power

Oil prices remained high on Tuesday, after beginning the week at their highest level in years. Brent Oil Futures traded at $84.33 while WTI Futures were up 0.04 per cent at $81.72. Last week, both

The IME’s Public Relations and International Affairs Department said that the exchange-traded 1.323 million tons of commodities worth more than $217 million on its metals and minerals trading floor. This floor saw the sale of

Chien Shun-Yih sighs as he gazes out over his withering tea plantations in Taiwan’s scenic Meishan municipality in the south. Last year’s once-in-a-century drought, followed by torrential rain this year, wrecked his crop. Taiwan’s tea