US commodity futures: A safe heaven
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Three weeks ago, when Hurricane Ivan hit Florida in the US, a top executive of a bank in Chennai earned a little over Rs 20,000 by trading in commodity futures market there.
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NEW YORK - Concerns about slowing growth in China sparked a selloff in commodities futures this past week, but some Wall Street watchers remain bullish about companies that produce what's called "stuff" - goods like oil, metals and timber.    Many analysts believe oil prices are overextended, and speculation is likely to keep other raw materials volatile for the near future, as well; in a vivid illustration of this, copper hit a 15-year high on Wednesday only to tumble to a five-week low on Thursday...
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Experts are divided on the next move for crude futures, and even on the factors that influence them. NEW YORK  - The biggest two-day slide in oil prices since 1991 may have brightened faces on Wall
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Fresh highs and international volatility. Sound familiar?
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Stock futures cut gains to hold about little changed on Thursday after the headline U.S. producer price index showed a stronger-than-expected reading, raising concerns about higher interest rates and sending benchmark bond yields back up.
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Please step away from the slides House of Cards The second and final day of The Growth of Gambling and Prediction Markets: Economic and Financial Implications began with a very interesting session led by Ricardo Siu of of the University of Macau about whether or not gaming markets are a productive economic sector in the purely economic sense of that word: namely, are they capable of indefinite and sustainable growth?â¦
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Crude futures for December delivery hit a high of $55.67 Monday morning in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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Buying takes off after the price of crude falls to $45.49, giving S&amp;P and Nasdaq one of their best days. By Michael J. Martinez / Associated Press.
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Dow Jones futures rose 37 points recently, while Nasdaq futures climbed 6 points and Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s futures edged up 3.60 points.
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The October futures contract was up 34 cents to $43.44 in electronic pre-floor trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices have fallen about 12% since touching a record intraday high of $49.
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Singapore: Crude futures stayed close to the US$49 mark in Asia today, amid renewed fears that heating oil supplies may not meet demand for the coming Northern Hemisphere winter.
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Recent US interest rate cuts have helped create a liquidity boom in emerging markets (EM), fuelling demand for raw materials and boosting  stock markets. In turn, robust demand and a global oil supply contraction in the third quarter of 2007 recently pushed crude oil briefly above $100 a barrel. Meanwhile, the US dollar is close to record lows, both against the euro and on a broad basis. More interestingly, the long-term correlation between oil and the dollar has moved from a historical average of -1 per cent to -80 per cent of late.
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Next stop, fifty bucks. Analysts said crude futures could climb that high today, pushed to the psychological barrier of $50 US a barrel by speculative buying amid escalating threats to Iraq&#39;s oil infrastructure.
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NEW YORK : Crude oil futures jumped to a record high closing on the New York Mercantile Exchange Friday, as markets fretted over tight US supplies despite a decision to release small amounts from a strategic reserve.
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