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Rapid Ratings to Testify on the collapse of MF Global
London, 2 February 2012
James Gellert, the CEO of independent ratings, research and analytics firm Rapid Ratings, will be testifying at the House Committee on Financial Services hearing on the collapse of MF Global, today, February 2, alongside S&P and Moody’s. Please find his testimony on the subcommittee website here: http://financialservices.house.gov/Calendar/EventSingle.aspx?EventID=276489
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Heart of China Bull Beats Strong
London, 28 January 2012
Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors: My debate this week with Gordon Chang on China’s future at the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference was a stimulating, intellectual exercise. A healthy market needs a compromise between the bid and ask, and discussions between people who strongly disagree is a great way to promote critical thinking.
S&P Indices launches S&P GSCI multiple contract
London, 26 January 2012
S&P Indices today extended the range of its widely followed family of commodity indices with the launch of the S&P GSCI Multiple Contract Index. The new, long-only index provides more diverse exposure along the commodity market futures curve than the S&P GSCI, which is based on the front most liquid futures contracts only. Spreading exposure along the futures curve for each of the commodities included in the Index helps alleviate some of the negative impact of rolling into contango, a situation where the prices of further out futures contracts are above the front contracts. It also potentially reduces volatility risk while maintaining maximum liquidity.
Dubai's DMCC plans gold ETF trade by June
Dubia, 24 January 2012: Reuters
Dubai's government-owned commodities centre is looking to introduce gold exchange traded funds (ETFs) to the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange ( DGCX) by trading. "The contracts that we are considering for DGCX are spot gold .... and we are also looking at and hopefully will have enough time to add the gold ETFs that are listed in Nasdaq Dubai by June," Ahmed bin Sulayem, DGCX's chairman said Monday.
It may take a Dragon to breathe fire into markets
London, 21 January 2012: By Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors
Kung hei fat choy! – On Monday, I’ll be returning home to Canada to speak at the Cambridge House’s Vancouver Resource Investment Conference. This year, I’ll be part of a special debate on whether China will boom or bust with bestselling author Gordon G. Chang. The title of Chang’s book, The Coming Collapse of China, states his position quite clearly and I look forward to the intellectual challenge of convincing him otherwise.
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Global commodity ETP assets rise to US$171bn, 2011
london, 20 January 2012
Global commodity exchange traded product (ETP) assets rose by US$8bn to total US$171bn during 2011 in what were challenging market conditions for commodity ETP assets. Escalating concerns over European sovereign risk, subdued global economic growth and rising investor risk aversion dominated the investment environment which saw investors move into defensive assets at the expense of cyclical and commodity assets: Source ETF Securities.
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Four new Lyxor commodity index ETFs launched on Xetra
London, 17 January 2012
Deutsche Börse continues to expand its XTF segment for exchange-traded index funds with four new Lyxor commodity index ETFs tradable in the XTF segment.
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Source and L&G launch commodity ETF
London, 9 January 2012
Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) and Source are pleased to announce the launch of the LGIM Commodity Composite Source ETF. The fund, which tracks the LGIM Commodity Composite Index, is designed to offer high quality, diversified exposure to commodities in a UCITS-compliant ETF.
Commodities Research Rankings: BarCap
London, 5 November 2011
A risk rally across all sectors has lifted commodities in the past month. However, Barlcays Capital think it unlikely that the trend will be sustained. Although growth prospects look a little stronger in the US, they are much weaker in Europe and the picture for China is "still worrying" according to Kevin Norrish, Head of commodities research. "Moreover, the European debt situation shows no sign of resolution so we are continuing to favour defensive positioning, reducing weightings in those commodities likely to suffer most from further waves of pessimism."
Commodities: Braced for disappointment
London, 22 October 2011
Ahead of what may be a momentous week for financial markets, commodity investors are expecting the worst, according to Barclays Capital. Investor selling of commodities has intensified in recent weeks and hedge funds have been particularly aggressive. Gross short positions across the major US commodity futures markets are now 30% larger than they were at the start of September and net hedge fund length has halved.
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