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Five Ways to Profit from the New Year Rebound in Commodity Prices
Between September 2007 and June 2008, oil prices doubled, gold rose 30% and commodities, in general, advanced by a similar percentage.
So why, six months later, when prices have fallen back below last year’s levels, does everybody think they won’t rise again? The difficulties of extraction haven’t gone away, nor have the prospects of increasing consumption in the faster-growing emerging markets such as China. Yes, the prices of commodities are severely affected by marginal moves in supply and demand, but this is ridiculous!
Rest assured, commodities prices will rebound in the New Year. The reasons will soon become quite clear.
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16Dec2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedGood News for Some Long-Term Potash Investors
By Andrew Mickey, Q1 Publishing
It’s been a wild year for fertilizer stocks. Many investors who have been loading up on agriculture stocks right along with the hedge and mutual funds have taken some big lumps over the past couple of months, but it looks like the panic selling period is behind us.
When overleveraged traders and hedge funds are forced to sell anything and everything, we’re all forced to relearn that fundamentals mean next to nothing in a bear market. But that could be slowly starting to change right now. And if it does, the long-term outlook for fertilizer and potash…
Commodities Trading: Aluminum’s Alcoa bribes (maybe) and buys
Despite record-breaking commodities prices, aluminum giant Alcoa (AA: NYSE) is not having the best of times right now.
The U.S. Justice Department just asked a judge in Pittsburgh to hold off on a lawsuit against the company.
The government of Bahrain is suing Alcoa for what it says was a 15-year pattern of bribing government officials and overcharging to Aluminum Bahrain BSC, a long-time Alcoa customer.
But don’t get too excited. The DOJ is asking the civil court to take a break while it investigates a possible criminal case against Alcoa. Ouch.
The news hasn’t had too bad an effect on the company’s stock, but…
24Mar2008 | Stephanie Grimmett | Comments Off | Continued
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