International Business News - Fundamentals Commodities http://www.ibtimes.com/rss/feed/fundcommodities.rss All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 120 30 http://www.ibtimes.com/rss/feed/fundcommodities.rss http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Release Date: October 29/09 Q2 Result: -0.7% Q/Q ann. TD Forecast: 3.8% Q/Q Consensus: 3.0% Q/Q http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091023/ureal-gdp-q3-09.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20091023/ureal-gdp-q3-09.htm Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:57:26 EDT The Dollar weakened against most majors and declined to its weakest level against the Euro this year as record low U.S. borrowing costs encouraged investors to sell the currency and buy higher yielding assets. The U.S. trade deficit widened in July and imports gained by a record 4.7 percent, signaling a revival of commerce as the global recession eased. Initial Jobless Claims came out better at 550K vs. 555K forecast. NASDAQ and Dow Jones rose by 1.15% and 0.84% accordingly. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090911/daily-review-11-09.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090911/daily-review-11-09.htm Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:27:06 EDT The greenback has been under pressure today after a long weekend in US because of the Labor Day in the beginning of this week. The greenback started the week in the defensive side because of the equities market gains and the demand for the higher yielding currencies for taking risk after better than expected economic data from US referring to a diminishing of the recession pressure and the increasing of the inflation outlook which can come accompanied with the recovery which could help the gold ... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090908/92009-current-market-sentiment.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090908/92009-current-market-sentiment.htm Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:38:35 EDT The price of Crude Oil fell 1.4% or $1.00 to $71.20 yesterday, as the latest inventory numbers from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed an increase in crude oil stockpiles. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090827/crude-oil-falls4s-inventory-data.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090827/crude-oil-falls4s-inventory-data.htm Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:55:46 EDT The Japanese yen and U.S. dollar strengthened today against higher-yielding currencies as refuges after announcements by SunTrust Banks which predicted that U.S. banks may face more credit losses. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090825/fears-markets-aheads-confidence-report.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090825/fears-markets-aheads-confidence-report.htm Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:17:24 EDT The US Q1 final reading came better than expected at -5.5% while the market was waiting for -5.7% to add a relative strength to the greenback which was actualy underpined by The fed's decsion of not adding further easing steps of its quattitive easing policy yesterday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090625/current-market-sentiment.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090625/current-market-sentiment.htm Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:19:59 EDT Several important Japanese indicators were released overnight including industrial production, unemployment rate and inflation (see below for details). The releases make horrible reading. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090130/japan-another-record-plunge-industrial-production.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090130/japan-another-record-plunge-industrial-production.htm Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:02:24 EST Crude prices fell on Friday as the U.S Employment Report came out showing the worse downfall in employment since World War II. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090112/fundamental-analysis-energy-market.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090112/fundamental-analysis-energy-market.htm Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:27:56 EST The precious metal declined slightly on Monday as the dollar inclines against majors. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090112/fundamental-analysis-precious-metals.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090112/fundamental-analysis-precious-metals.htm Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:26:42 EST As predicted in previous analyses offered by ForexYard, the sudden increase in the price of Crude Oil during the first days of the conflict in Gaza was more of a result of investor worries and speculation. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090112/weakened-global-energy-demand-returns-crude-oil-previous-downtrend.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090112/weakened-global-energy-demand-returns-crude-oil-previous-downtrend.htm Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:09:19 EST Through the low liquidity of the past few weeks, the relatively high-yielding commodity-based currencies (Canadian, Australian and New Zealand dollars) have benifited from a relatively stable advance against most of their major counterparts. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090109/commodity-bloc-jeopardy-reversals-trends-stumble.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090109/commodity-bloc-jeopardy-reversals-trends-stumble.htm Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:48:55 EST On New Year's Eve, crude prices jumped above $44 a barrel by almost 14% since geopolitical tensions persisted as the conflict between Israel and Palestine enhanced fears that oil supplies from the Middle East, which as we know is one of the largest black gold areas. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090102/fundamental-analysis-energy-market.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090102/fundamental-analysis-energy-market.htm Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:52:40 EST The price of Crude Oil continues to be volatile as it dropped over 130 pips from near $43 to $41.70 in the opening hours of today's trading. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090102/oil-prices-slide-below-start-years-trading.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20090102/oil-prices-slide-below-start-years-trading.htm Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:40:56 EST