Salient to Investors: Gold held in ETPs are the lowest in 5 years, gold’s 60-day volatility is near a 5-yr low, and open interest near the lowest since 2009. Brian Levitt at OppenheimerFunds sees no compelling reasons to be in gold, and said no inflationary pressures and a Fed that will
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Dorab Mistry at Godrej Intl said: Palm oil at a 5-year low creates a buying opportunity for plantation and processing company stocks because producers are still making money. Invest in plantations when palm oil prices are low. In Q4, 2008, when in a similar situation with regard to supply,
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jeffrey Currie at Goldman Sachs predicts gold to fall to $1,050 by year-end as the economy improves and there is more confidence in the recovery, without significant inflationary concerns. Goldman predicts higher interest rates in Q3, 2015. Last week, net-long positions in gold rose to their highest
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Hedge funds’ net-long positions of 18 US-traded commodities rose 18 percent last week to the highest since September 2012. Investors tripled the net-long position in arabica coffee this month to the most bullish since May 2011 Barclays said weather is the big driver of commodities. EPFR Global
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers said: Agriculture has to change and prices and profits have to go much higher or we are not going to have any food at any price. We don`t have any farmers because farming has been a nightmare for most people. In the UK, the highest rate
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Terry Kastens at Kansas State University said: Farmland values are about to stop rising rapidly, flatten out or even fall 10 percent or so, but will not crash. Rising global crop output and stable renewable-fuel standards are leading to a flattening in commodity prices. Rents in some
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers said the world has consumed more than it has produced for the last decade so inventories are near historic lows. Plus we are running out of farmers: the average age of farmers in America is 58, in Japan is 66 and no young people are
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers said more people in America study public relations than study agriculture which is why we have low inventories and are running out of farmers. The world is facing a crisis. Read the full article at http://jimrogersonthemarkets.blogspot.com/2013/11/agriculture-world-is-facing-crisis.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers said: The most important economic event of the next 10 to 20 years is what happened in Beijing, though largely ignored, particularly by the Western media. Current efforts to reform, if followed through, could take a generation to really bear fruit but Chinese agriculture, railroads,
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jeremy Grantham at GMO said: Commodity prices fell for a hundred years by an average of 70 percent, and then from 2002 basically everything tripled and regained the whole decline in 6 years – tobacco was the only commodity that fell. The game changed because of the
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