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By Frank Holmes |
July 25, 2011
Copper slightly disappointed investors, ending the first half of the year with a decline of 3.50%. Worries about global inflation and, more specifically, the potential slowing of China's economy weighed on copper's price.
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By Frank Holmes, Evan Smith, Brian Hicks |
June 7, 2011
How are interest rates currently affecting commodity prices? How do the financial troubles of European countries such as Greece and Portugal affect gold prices? And what is the outlook for oil prices for the next two to five years?
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By Frank Holmes |
April 7, 2011
One key driver of the increase in oil consumption is the continued rise in economic wealth of China and other emerging countries. Historically, the amount of oil consumed per capita is strongly linked with the country's GDP per capita.
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By Frank Holmes |
March 15, 2011
Global markets present tremendous opportunities to those who are able to sort out what's meaningful from the background noise. It also means going where others don't.
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By Frank Holmes, Evan Smith, Brian Hicks |
January 24, 2011
A larger, wealthier class of people in the emerging world are demanding more goods as they raise their standard of living and the supply of these goods is impacted by geopolitics, diminishing mature sources and even weather.
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By Hardassetsinvestor.com |
March 5, 2010
Spring is in the air, and it's that time again: March Madness. No, not the basketball tourney -- we mean the historical rise in crude oil and natural gas prices.
