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A conciliatory offer on timber from Moscow just ahead of the crucial EU was just one of the major events in a week when world politics and finance rather than fundamentals continued to dominate commodity markets. A major issue
Full story...Who’d be an analyst? Trying to forecast the standard two year views and more for the likes of AIM listed New Britain Palm Oil (NBPOL) and other agriculture groups is probably impossible to get right! The component parts of the
Full story...Shipping rates had been expected to come under pressure last week, with the deepening of the financial crisis, but the ferocity of declines in the dry and container markets took brokers by surprise as severe lack of cargoes took
Full story...So deeply demoralised have markets become that even the prospect of an OPEC-orchestrated rise in the price of oil is failing to help the alternatives, such as palm oil and its plantation owners. Malaysian crude palm oil futures
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Food commodity prices collapsed as the dollar recovered, the Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index of 19 raw materials plunging 24 per cent in October,the steepest decline since at least 1956. The US Dollar Index, which measures the
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Full story...Buying back the farm is not easy in a financial firestorm, as Australia’s biggest forestry management company is discovering. Two months ago Great Southern Plantations (GSP) unveiled a major restructuring plan. The essence of the
Full story...It was a week when all one could do was watch awe-struck, as share prices fell internationally into a apparently bottomless pit on fears that economic slowdown would turn into a global slump, taking other markets with them. The
Full story...Dorab Mistry is sounding very gloomy. That is really bad news for palm oil prices. To put non-specialists into the picture, he is the established guru of the palm oil markets, sitting in his base at Indian group Godrej
Full story...The good news is that the latest figures from the National Farmers Union confirm that this year’s harvest in the UK will prove to be big despite farmers enduring some of the most difficult conditions for decades. The bad news is
Full story...Excellent results from Asian Citrus actually stirred London’s AIM market to raise the share price – an encouraging sign for both of them. It has bounced off the 75p low for the year and has been trading 100 percent higher at
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