BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Hard Commodities
- metals and other solid raw materials.
- See also Soft Commodities
Additional Resources
- Growing demand pushes up price of platinum: metals in general and platinum in particular are benefiting from the booming market in hard commodities. But some of the other PGMs are not doing so well, says Priscilla Ross.(Mining)
- THE COMMODITIES BOOM has favoured platinum in particular and for the past seven years this market has been undersupplied, in 2005 to the tune of a deficit of 70,000oz according to Johnson Matthey JM. But platinum's sister metal palladium in 2005 was in surplus for the ...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- Kevin Kerr: A Whirlwind Change for the Commodities Market
- Hard Assets Investor submits: With over 20 years' experience in natural resources, Kevin Kerr (the "Maniac Trader") is one of the most recognizable analysts in the commodities biz today. Kerr is the president and CEO of Kerr Trading International, editor of the Global Commodities Alert and a frequent voice...
- External links 2009-06-15
- Interview: Kevin Kerr On the Commodities Pull Back
- Hard Assets Investor submits: Part I ...
- External links 2008-09-10
- Hardassets Editor Dave Nadig Discusses the Inside Commodities Conference
- Hard Assets Investor submits: Dave Nadig, an associate editor at Hardassetsinvestor.com and a former portfolio manager attended the Inside Commodities conference, held at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, Nov. 3, which gathered many of the world's leading thinkers in the commodities space into one room to discuss...
- External links 2008-11-10
- Fund Manager Tom Fernandez on Buying Commodities
- Hard Assets Investor submits: A few years ago, Tom Fernandes was working as an equities trading and analyst in New York. One day, he happened to read Jim Roger's book, Hot Commodities, and it struck a chord. "As soon as I put down the book, I turned to my...
- External links 2009-03-09
- All About Recessionary Commodities
- Hard Assets Investor submits: Last week's interview with Tom Fernandes from GreenHaven Commodity Services pointed to a Yale study on recessionary commodities. When we asked Mr. Fernandes how commodities can possibly be a good idea in this economy, he brought up a study published by Yale that is often...
- External links 2009-03-13
- Soft Commodities ETF: DBA Forging a Bottom?
- In conjunction with the Fed’s quantitative easing efforts this past week, most commodities strengthened on the heels of the plunge in the U.S. Dollar. While Gold and Copper have garnered most of the attention of late, the soft commodities have also rallied significantly. While it may still be early to...
- External links 2009-03-23
- Commodities, Globality and the Next Billion Customers
- Hard Assets Investor submits: What is the end result of globalization? A new era of international hypercompetition - and sky-high commodities prices - called "globality," says Harold [Hal] L. Sirkin, co-author of 2008's "Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything." Sirkin, senior partner of the Boston Consulting Group's...
- External links 2009-06-20
- Education Is the Key to Understanding Soft Commodities
- Hard Assets Investor submits: Mike Norman, anchor, HardAssetsInvestor.com Norman: Hello everybody, and welcome to HardAssetsInvestor.com. I’m Mike Norman, your host. Well, we’re going to be talking soft commodities today, and here to discuss that is Mark Hansen, who is a director at CPM Group right here in New York....
- External links 2009-09-10
- Are Commodities Still a Safe Haven?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: To limit or not to limit? That is the question on Washington's mind right now, as regulators struggle with how best to cope with the volatility of commodities funds like UNG. Given the regulatory frenzy over energy ETFs, we thought it might be a good...
- External links 2009-09-22
- Don't Write off the Gold and Commodities Bull Run
- Shailendra Kumar submits: Gold has been thrashed during last few weeks with a brutality usually not seen in the financial markets. A violent rally in the US dollar has pushed the yellow metal from a high of $988.30 during mid-July to $800 during this week. The drop has sent the...
- External links 2008-08-17
- Cotton: The Not-So-Hard Asset
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 7.8% Among the categories of commodities traded on the world's bourses is one that sounds quite, well, exotic. In fact, that's the sometime-moniker for the group of goods otherwise known as soft commodities, or "softs," for short....
- External links 2009-04-28
- Hard Choices
- If commodities are hot, then commodity exchange-traded funds ETFs must be on the way. The asset class is in such demand that a new type of investment-the exchange-traded note ETN-was created just to meet it. Commodities have cooled off a bit in 2006: If commodities are hot, then commodity...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Portfolio Investor: Clark on Commodities
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Murray Coleman Joe Clark is a student of demographics and how that plays out in financial markets. As a result, the managing partner at Financial Enhancement Group takes a different sort of look at commodities and the world's need for more raw materials to...
- External links 2008-08-08
- Latest Commodities Indicator: Fed Policy
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Jacob Bunge As with any asset class, commodities investing often can come down to getting into and out of a given market at the right time. Sounds simple, until you factor in fundamental factors, time horizons, the waxing and waning strength of the U.S....
- External links 2008-08-29
- Commodities Story of the Year: Floating Oil Storage
- Hard Assets Investor submits: The most incredible commodities story of the year (and that's saying something this year) may be this one from the Financial Times ... Supertankers store 50m barrels of oil by Hard Assets Investor
- External links 2008-12-30
- Why Commodities Are Edging out Futures
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 4.3%* Investors, rather than traders, have had the advantage in the commodities markets this year. Largely, that's because stockholders can outlast highly leveraged futures traders while waiting for a trend to develop. Of course, you can always...
- External links 2009-08-24
- Commodities and Speculators: Argument for Position Limits Non-Existent
- Hard Assets Investor submits: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission isn't expected to deliver its final verdict on new position limits and other market restrictions until later this month, but already we've seen plenty of reaction, including DXO's liquidation and the development of new indices. Expect it to continue,...
- External links 2009-10-05
- Is the Bloodbath in Commodities Coming to an End?
- Matthew Bradbard submits: The bears are out of hibernation as we saw all asset classes including commodities have been hit hard in the last few months. The CCI index which is comprised of 17 different commodities (cocoa, coffee, sugar, cotton, copper, platinum, silver, crude oil, corn, natural gas,...
- External links 2008-09-13
- Cutting Position in James River Coal, Assuming Failure at Resistance
- Trader Mark submits: As I've been stating the past few weeks I'm bullish on commodities now that they are so hated. What I don't know is if the hedge funds are done liquidating. No one does. The other question as of last week is will the printing presses of America...
- External links 2008-09-22
