The statistics are clear: commodity demand is moving east, and fast. For the moment, the bulk of trading and price-setting is done out of New York and London, but will banks, exchanges and physical trading houses move east as well? Joanne Hart reports
Asia's insatiable appetite for commodities
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Famine or feast?
December 10, 2010For more than a decade, commodity markets have attracted increasing levels of investment, a trend that accelerated when returns from equity markets fell away in the financial crisis. Jim Banks asks what Asia's growing appetite means for commodities in the future: will investment lead to oversupply, or will demand from rapidly growing nations mean scarcity and price hikes?
Banks increase physical assets
December 8, 2010The drive for a cap on position limits in the derivatives markets has led investment banks to increase their presence in the lucrative physical markets. Writer Geraldine Lambe
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Who will satisfy commodity companies' hunger for finance?
December 8, 2010Commodity companies are big and getting bigger, a fact that has not gone unnoticed within global capital markets. David Wigan assesses how the financial needs of these global behemoths are being met.