| | | | Investec's Michael Power takes us through the impact of the end of QE2, the continuing escalation of the euro zone's problems the rise of Indian and Chinese coal demand | | | | | TOP STORIES | Tuesday , 31 May 2011 | | As commodity markets begin once more to part ways and the range of options available to investors continue to grow, so active strategies for managing commodities are becoming more popular. Tuesday , 31 May 2011 | | Investors took note of Ethiopian Potash Monday, pushing its share price up, fast and hard, perhaps in a bid to get into the potash game with a junior at an early stage of exploration. Monday , 30 May 2011 | | Germany's decision to shut all of its nuclear reactors by 2022 saw shares in Cameco slip as much as 4.4% while Uranium One saw its shares drop 2.9% Tuesday , 31 May 2011 | | A new round of drilling results lends support to resource expansion at Torex's Morelos project in Mexico where it hopes to define at least five million ounces gold. Monday , 30 May 2011 | | Industry executives said China's thermal coal imports could rise to as much as 200m tonnes by 2015 while India could see import demand hit 100m tonnes. Tuesday , 31 May 2011 | | A Russian finance ministry official told Interdax the state repository has sufficient stocks of palladium to continue exports in2012 Monday , 30 May 2011 | | The Canadian gold miner said quarterly profit, which came in lower than analyst estimates, was hit by a drop in production caused by an expansion programme Tuesday , 31 May 2011 | | The Brazilian mining giant said it expects iron ore prices to remain flat in the third quarter and said credit tightening in China, the world's largest iron ore consumer, is unlikely to slow the Asian giant's economic growth Tuesday , 31 May 2011 | | The Chilean molybdenum processor said Monday, its top processing plant was only partially operational after a workers union declared a strike over a collective wage offer Tuesday , 31 May 2011 | | Shares in Bear Creek and Rio Alto fell on Monday following anti-mining protests in southeastern Peru just days before a presidential run-off election Tuesday , 31 May 2011 | | The Australian coalminer which recently halted plans to look for a suitor, announced Tuesday it has extended a joint venture agreement with Idemitsu, the Japanese petroleum and energy group Tuesday , 31 May 2011 | | While gold has been moving more like a commodity than a currency in recent weeks, correlations show that its relationship with currencies and, especially the dollar:euro rate is tightening Monday , 30 May 2011 | | Hong Kong based Puru Saxena sees Eastern precious metals demand continuing and rising as wealth grows - and sees the recent downturn in prices reversing. | | Copper looks set to benefit from the recent drop in prices that brought valuations closer to fundamentals and if anything has improved the outlook for the metal. | | A look at what has been going on in the gold market since the dip and why it is worth looking at the price of the metal in currencies other than the dollar | | |
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