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By Adrian Ash |
May 22, 2012
Wholesale prices to buy gold fell further from $1,600 an ounce in London on Tuesday morning, finding a floor at $1575 as European stock markets rose for the second day running after falling for two weeks in succession.
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By Stephan Bogner |
May 9, 2012
In light of the strongly growing world population especially in emerging countries the question when staring at the vanishing commodity supply must not be when the commodity boom will end, but rather if the boom can come to an end at all.
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By Leo Liu |
March 19, 2012
During the period of 2007‐2011, electricity consumption in Mongolia increased on an average 6% per year. However, the Ministry of Mineral Resource of Mongolia estimates that overall electricity demand is expected to grow at 14% in the future.
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By Frank Holmes |
February 3, 2012
The emerging world will push global energy demand 30% higher by 2040, according to ExxonMobil’s Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040, which offers insights on what may be in store for the energy sector in coming decades.
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By Alasdair Macleod |
October 18, 2011
Against a background of a growing imbalance between falling supply and static demand for energy and raw materials, central banks are injecting new money. It matters not whether the process is formal or through an open check book.
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By Chris Mack |
April 1, 2011
The concept of limited liability was engineered to protect businesses from losing more than all of their capital, but it is now being abused by corporations and governments who use it to externalize excessive risk.
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By Mark O'Byrne |
March 15, 2011
Japan's nuclear crisis has deepened and there is now the real possibility of a nuclear catastrophe. Investor panic has set in with the Nikkei down over 16.5% in two days and the Topic index down by 17% - its worst two-day loss since 1987.
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By Jeb Handwerger |
January 14, 2011
Broad daylight and without a shot being fired, Russians have taken possession of rich American uranium assets. How they managed to do this might require the skills of a Sherlock Holmes in unraveling a labyrinthian maze.
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By Frank Holmes |
December 7, 2010
Lost in the shuffle of the European debt woes, a second round of quantitative easing and gold's record run has been the resurgence in global demand for oil.
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By Philip Burgert |
November 22, 2010
After booming earlier in the decade, busting in 2007 into 2008 and being flat and out of favor until early this year, uranium is now the 'Next Big Thing,' attendees at the San Francisco Hard Assets Investment Conference 2010 have been told.
