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India cabinet backs commodity optionsFrom WSJ: India's federal cabinet approved proposals permitting options trading on commodity markets, a move that is expected to bring in more participants and boost the value of trading. India currently allows only futures trading in commodities. Financial institutions aren't allowed to participate. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Futures and Options, Regulatory
India may allow banks, mutual funds in commodity futuresFrom Reuters: India will allow banks and mutual funds to trade in commodity futures once parliament approves the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Amendment Bill, the market regulator said on Thursday. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Futures and Options, Regulatory
India: FMC to get more teeth, funds as cabnet clears commodities billFrom Indiatimes.com: After a chequered history, a bill which promises to electrify the seven-year old commodity futures market and put the commodity regulator on a par with its capital market counterpart, Sebi, will be tabled in Parliament during the winter session. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Futures and Options, Regulatory
Commodities alone are not enough to sustain flourishing economiesFrom Economist.com: It may seem a safe bet that billions of Asians will continue to gobble up oil, iron ore, copper, soyabeans and meat as they get richer. But one day they may not; and one day, too, the world will surely come up with alternatives to fossil fuels that emit less carbon. Indeed Brazil already has, in the form of ethanol from sugar cane, and Colombia and Central America are following suit. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Commentaries, Market Moves, Trends
Commodities and asset allocationFrom Wallstreetpit.com: Which asset class would you expect to generate the better performance over the past four decades or so – domestic stocks, commodity-linked securities or a portfolio split evenly between the two? (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Commentaries, Investment, Market Moves
The commodities corner: A look at 'safe havens'From Ibtimes.com: It appears that the governments and central banks of the "safe haven" currencies (Swiss franc, Japanese yen, U.S. dollar) have been inclined to devalue their currency to make their exports more competitive in efforts to stimulate growth. This week has illustrated that point well. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Commentaries, Currencies
An inconvenient truth about OPECFrom Mmegi.bw: The three major organisations that forecast long-term oil demand and supply - the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and the United States Energy Information Administration (EIA) - along with oil companies and consulting firms, believe that OPEC will reconcile predicted global demand and non-OPEC supply. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Energy, Market Pulse, Oil
Qatar sees no need to alter Opec ouput policy in OctoberFrom Gulf-times.com: Qatar sees no need for Opec to alter oil output policy at its meeting in October as prices are in a fair range, a Qatari oil official said. The Qatari view reinforces that of several other Middle East Gulf members of the group who have said prices are fairly robust and Opec does not need to change policy. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Oil, Price Watch
Free market cannot solve all energy problems: expertsFrom AFP: Between the world's thirst for energy and efforts on climate change, the economic crisis has shown that free market forces cannot solve all global issues, energy experts were told. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Energy, Market Moves, Research
World's largest mining company: We must move away from coalFrom Businessweek.com: BHP Billiton Ltd., the world's largest mining company, said Australia needs to move away from coal as its main source of power to avoid competitive disadvantage once a global price on carbon emerges. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Energy, Metals and Minerals
Gold new record high, just 2pct below $1,300/ozFrom Marketoracle.co.uk: Gold and silver have risen to new record highs and new multiyear highs respectively as investors are becoming increasingly concerned about the health of the eurozone financial system and the fragility of the recent economic recovery. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Bullion/Gold, Price Watch
Repairing your gold mining stocksFrom Hardassetsinvestor.com: Everybody makes mistakes. Traders in particular. Sometimes it's just a matter of timing; at other times, it's because the right sector was picked, but the wrong stock. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Bullion/Gold, Market Moves
What is your depth of belief in Gold?From Commodityonline.com: Spot gold Tuesday hit a record $1,274.75 an ounce, drifted lower on Wednesday as the dollar surged 3% against the yen when Japan intervened in the currency market for the first time in six years. The yellow metal quickly found support at just below $1,270 an ounce, still near its record high. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Bullion/Gold, Commentaries, Price Watch
Is an exchange traded fund (ETF) right for your portfolio?From Usatoday.com: Investors can now choose from more than 75 exchange traded funds (ETFs) that invest in commodities: corn, silver, nickel and even lithium. Commodity prices are volatile, and for many years, they were a market dominated by producers — farmers and mining companies, for example — and speculators. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: ETFs / ETCs, Investment
Geithner pledges to press China on currencyFrom Independent: US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner yesterday promised to continue pressing China on foreign exchange as the increasingly fraught global row over the value of national currencies intensified. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Currencies
Tokyo SE taps NYSE Euronext to build futures platformFrom Foxbusiness.com: The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said that the agency is looking into activity in metals and energy markets run by CME Group Inc., where the exchange mistakenly sent a number of test orders Monday. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Commodities Exchanges, Futures and Options, Trading Platforms
Gensler says one-to-one swap trading unlikely to meet new rulesFrom Bloomberg: Trading systems for over-the- counter derivatives that only link one investor to one bank probably won’t be allowed under new regulations, said Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Futures and Options, People, Regulatory
Why futures and options expirations won't boost Wall StreetFrom Dailyfinance.com: The "quadruple witching" hour -- when index futures, index options, equity options and security futures expire simultaneously -- is traditionally a time of higher trading volumes and investors decide what to do next. But if the low trading volumes so far this week are any indication, the next quadruple witching hour, scheduled Friday, will likely pass with barely a bump. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Commentaries, Futures and Options
European Union plans major clampdown on high-risk derivativesFrom Dailymail.co.uk: Plans for a major clampdown on the high-risk investment tools favoured by speculators have been unveiled by the European Union. Two years to the day after the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered the global financial crisis, Europe is being urged to adopt tough new rules on ‘derivatives’ – contracts used by investors to bet on future movements of shares, bonds, currencies and commodities. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Futures and Options, Regulatory
Agricultural commodities trading, will grains gain or wane?From Marketoracle.co.uk: Over the past few months, leading grain prices have climbed up the commodity wall like a "mile-a-minute" kudzu vine. From late June to early August, the big three grain markets (wheat, corn, and soybeans) soared 40%-plus in a coordinated rally to multi-year highs before leveling off. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Agriculture, Trading, Trends
IEA chief says China's engagement vital to global CO2 emission cutsFrom Xinhua News Agency: Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Nobuo Tanaka said on Wednesday that China's effort in energy technology development was essential to achieve the goal of CO2 emission cuts by 2050. (more...) Email Add Comments More stories about: Commentaries, Environmental Trading, People
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The Bahamas' Pioneering Legal Groundwork for Digital Assets Industry Roundtable & Interactive Webinar with Christina R. Rolle, Executive Director, Securities Commission of The Bahamas In a previous Opalesque Roundtable we examined how "tiny" Bahamas was able to beat global giants in the Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) race when in 2019 it launched its "sand dollar" - a digital version of the Bahamas Dollar and controlled by the central bank - effectively beating China's "digital renminbi" by six months. Pric
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