With high oil yields and land-use efficiency, palm oil contributes significantly to the world’s oils and fats market, accounting for 10 per cent or 18.8 million tonnes out of 185 mt produced globa... »

For the global commodity markets, February was not a particularly impressive month. There was large-scale sell-off mid-month following hawkish interpretation of the FOMC minutes for Janu... »

The Union Budget 2013-14 presented on Thursday by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram may have deeply disappointed many commodity market participants – both physical and derivatives – who nursed high... »

Is liquidity-led commodity price boom coming to an end? This is a question everyone with exposure to markets is asking. Last week witnessed broad-based price declines across the global comm... »

Diverse price performance was the feature across the global commodity markets last week - covering energy products, base and precious metals as well as agriculture. Brent crude continued to rise w... »

Developments of recent weeks suggest that fiscal consolidation will most likely be the priority in the advanced countries; and may prove to be a drag on global growth. At the same time, eco... »

Global commodity markets exhibited diverse price action last week with growth signals picking up momentum but not strong enough as yet for a sustained rally. Fundamentals are surely to the fore. S... »

For the global commodity market, the good news last week was that the OECD composite leading indicators point to stabilising economic growth in most major economies even as the leading indi... »

For the global commodity markets, last week was generally positive except for softer prices of select base metals and agriculture. Crude oil, all precious metals and most base metals regist... »

After three consecutive years (2010, 2011 and 2012) of bad weather in some or other part of the world, and decline in the production of major field crops such as corn, wheat and oilseeds leading t... »