Strategy Commodities: Political tensions coupled with robust growth pushing Oil prices higher & short-term consolidation for Gold
According to Société Générale Private Banking’s strategists, the recent spike in oil prices strikes as too abrupt to be entirely justified by fundamental economic factors and Gold entered a short-term consolidation.
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Strategy Managed futures strategies
This type of strategy is based on a simple idea: try to take advantage of an exposure on futures contracts («Futures») with the underlying being a financial instruments or a commodity ...
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Strategy Climate Change and agriculture : risks and opportunities
According to Schroders’ Climate Change investment team, climate change acts as a threat multiplier to the sector on top of the dual impacts of the increased demand and decreased supply, and that this will present various investment opportunities throughout the value (...)
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Strategy Investing during market turmoil
The idea that considers equity investing as long term has simply become absurd nowadays and has been so during the last 10 years. Let us be reassured. Opportunities will still be around. The only real question nowadays is how to allocate between real assets and financial (...)
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Innovation Euronext launches sugar contract
Euronext announced that it will be launching a new Sugar commodities futures contract in the autumn of 2016, subject to regulatory approval. Aimed at all the actors of the European Union Sugar ecosystem, the contract will allow the industry to hedge its positions against (...)
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Opinion Will 2017 herald a commodity bull market?
According to David Donora, Head of Commodities, Columbia Threadneedle, after commodity prices bottomed in early 2016, demand is outstripping supply once again, suggesting the next bull market may be approaching...
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News China Steel - Overproduction and Lower Prices to Persist
China’s steel industry output continues to rise notwithstanding slowing economic growth, falling prices for steel, and poor profitability at the steel mills. Fitch Ratings believes this paradox can be explained first by the larger steel mills’ priority of maintaining economies (...)
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Strategy Buying the oil dip
A recent drop in energy-related assets looks to be overdone. We believe this creates opportunities in selected energy equities and credit — even as we see oil prices trading mostly sideways in the near term.
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Strategy How should investors deal with an oil shock?
Oil prices have risen substantially in the past months. Given the ongoing unrest in the Middle East, a potential oil shock is still one of the biggest risks for economic growth and financial markets.
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Strategy China in Africa
China’s burgeoning economy is demanding more and more natural mineral resources whether it is oil, copper, nickel, gold, and so on. Looking further into the future, the demands of China’s more sophisticated diets means that imports of food will be increasing as (...)
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Opinion The gold market is a «bubble ready to burst» !
According to U.S. bank Wells Fargo, speculative demand pushed the gold market to « a bubble that is about to explode »…
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Pedagogy Back to the future, may 2011: Nobles Crus and Earth Element Fund
Yesterday they were introduced as innovatives products. Today, How far have they got and what are the prospects for tomorrow ? Two products in the spotlight this month: Nobles Crus or the blend of passion for wine and financial investment, and a quantitative systematic (...)
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Opinion Assessing the oil price shock
The sharp fall in oil prices during the second half of 2014 turned out to be one of the most significant themes of the year. In this piece, Salman Ahmed, Strategist Fixed Income at Lombard Odier IM discusses the economic transmission mechanism and asset market implications (...)
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Strategy Africa: A continent of opportunities
As global demand for commodities continues to grow, we believe Africa is in an enviable position with its vast resources, not only minerals but also food—60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land is in Africa...
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News The potential for bubbles of shale gas
The operation of shale gas could generate major geopolitical changes: Instead of an increasing reliance on Russia and the Middle East, we would witness an important reshuffling of the cards
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