Today’s Futures News

Today’s Futures News

• Rain Commodities makes India's biggest-ever buy of a German-owned firm
  FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) – Industrial group Rain Commodities Ltd (RACL.NS) agreed to buy speciality chemicals group Ruetgers in a 702 million euro deal that would set a new record for an Indian takeover of a German-owned business. The sale of …
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• Goldman 'Never Seriously' Looked at Selling Commodities Unit
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), the fifth- biggest U.S. bank by assets, “never seriously” looked at selling its commodities unit as lenders consider their options amid new rules on proprietary trading. “While we constantly evaluate all our businesses …
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• COMMODITIES-Oil, copper slide on economic worries; wheat up
  Oil down 5th day; Brent crude loses 5.5 pct since Oct 15 * Copper plumbs one-month low as Japan's exports dive * Natgas leads day's losses, profit-taking after 2012 highs * US wheat up, Ukraine ban on wheat exports likely By Barani Krishnan NEW YORK, …
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• Today In Commodities: Precious Metals Under Pressure
  Softs: Cocoa is up four out of the last five sessions, gaining better than 7%. I am slightly bullish … Grains: The 50 day MA continues to act as resistance in corn, as prices have failed to take out that level on all attempts in the last two weeks …
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• Grains futures mixed, livestock prices mostly fall
  AP News. Grains futures mixed, livestock prices mostly fall. Posted on October 22, 2012. Tweet; Facebook; LinkedIn; Google Plus; Comments · Print. More from Businessweek. CHICAGO (AP) — Grains futures traded mixed Monday on the Chicago Board of …
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• GRAINS-Wheat rises on demand hopes, soy up as harvest winds down
  Cash grains merchandisers said basis bids for soybeans in Indiana jumped 14 cents per bushel, while in Iowa, they climbed 5 cents. The market was also supported by strong export demand, led by China, despite concerns over a slowdown in its growth.
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• Rain Commodities makes India's biggest-ever buy of a German-owned firm
  Frankfurt: Industrial group Rain Commodities has agreed to buy speciality chemicals group Ruetgers in a 702 million euro deal that would set a new record for an Indian takeover of a German-owned business. The sale of the industrial pitch, oils and …
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• One Russian Commodities Fraudster Turns Out To Be Twin Brothers
  Marat Yunusov and Ayrat Yunusov, are 48-year-old twin brothers from Kazan, Russia. Another thing that the Yunosov twins now share is that on October 19, 2012, they were indicted in Northern District of Illinois on eight counts of wire fraud and two …
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• Whole grains and health: Where's the evidence?

  However, short-term randomized controlled intervention trials looking at biomarkers for these conditions are not quite as conclusive – at least those looking at weight control, blood pressure and fasting insulin, delegates at the Whole Grains on Every … See all stories on this topic »

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• Commodities slump hits revenue forecasts
  In the mid-year budget update released yesterday, the Gillard government slashed its forecast earnings from the minerals resource rent tax by $4.3 billion over the next four years, to $9.1bn. The change would mark a 32 per cent downward revision in …
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• Argentine storms to help grain output, hurt quality
  BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine grains output will benefit from this year's early and potent arrival of El Nino-related rains, but low crop quality linked to flooding is likely to undermine the expected increase in soy and corn volume. Consumer …
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• Hedge Funds Cut Bets to 12-Week Low as Prices Drop: Commodities
  Metals demand in China is “really slow” as economic growth cools, Pengjiang (Richard) Fu, the head of Asian commodities trading at Newedge Group SA, said in an interview in London on Oct. 19. Slack demand for raw materials from China may last as long …
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• Wheat Climbs; Gold Prices Seen Gaining: Commodities at Close
  GRAINS, OILSEEDS, SOFT COMMODITIES. Wheat gained for a fourth day as possible export curbs by Ukraine following a drought added to global supply concerns amid dry weather that's sapped soil moisture in the U.S. and Australia. Corn and soybeans …
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• SOFTS-ICE sugar hovers near one-week high, coffee firms
  Louis Barbera will go to work in downtown Manhattan on Monday to trade soft commodities as he has done for almost two decades. But instead of stepping into a circular trading pit to take part in a more than century-old tradition of open-outcry trading …
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