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In the Bullring With Gold
London, 4 February 2012
U.S. Global Investors: After prices fell 10 percent in December, many investors wondered if the bull market in gold was running out of steam. That was before Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke swooped in with a “red cape” and fired the bulls back up. Since the Fed reassured the world that interest rates will remain at “exceptionally low levels” for another two years, gold has jumped more than three percent.
Brent pulls further ahead of West Texas crude
Source: Financial Times, 3rd February 2012
Commodities markets have enjoyed a flying start to the year, as investors have been encouraged by better economic news and apparent stabilisation in the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis.
Bakries move to oust Rothschild
Source: Financial Times, 3rd February 2012
Indonesia's Bakrie family is seeking to remove Nat Rothschild and other directors from the board of London-listed coal miner Bumi
Bid to force Rothschild out of Bumi
Source: Financial Times, 3rd February 2012
Indonesia's Bakrie family is seeking to remove Nat Rothschild and other directors from the board of London-listed coal miner Bumi
Dinner that put Glencore-Xstrata on the menu
Source: Financial Times, 3rd February 2012
A low-key dinner at a hotel in the West End of London in early December served as the backdrop. Ivan Glasenberg, the billionaire entrepreneur behind commodities group Glencore had flown to London to meet his long-term industry counterpart and sparring partner, Mick Davis, chief executive of Xstrata.
A mining marriage, but pregnant pause in M&A
Source: Financial Times, 3rd February 2012
Rarely can an $88bn deal have been greeted with such disinterest. But the proposed union of Xstrata with Glencore International is no ordinary merger.
Brent pulls further ahead on Iran fears
Source: Financial Times, 3rd February 2012
Commodities markets have enjoyed a flying start to the year, as investors have been encouraged by better economic news and apparent stabilisation in the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis.
Ukraine warns on winter wheat harvest
Source: Financial Times, 3rd February 2012
Ukraine has warned that freezing temperatures sweeping across eastern Europe have damaged about a third of its winter wheat crop, threatening to send wheat prices higher.
Investors beware gold's deceptive beauty
Source: Financial Times, 3rd February 2012
Has gold fever come to this? As the metal reached a two-month high this week, thieves smashed a glass display case and stole $3m of gold nuggets from a northern California courthouse, relics from the region's 1851 gold rush.
European wheat edges up on weather worries
Source: Financial Times, 3rd February 2012
The European wheat price extended its gains on Friday as the continuing freezing weather which has hit eastern Europe fuelled concerns about grains crops for the current year.
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