With the single commodity ETCs, investors can buy a range of commodities such as gold, oil and zinc as well as soft commodities like corn, cotton, soybeans, sugar and wheat. The growing wealth and purchasing power of emerging economies such as China and India, as well as new demand for the production of biofuels, are reasons cited by enthusiasts for the bull run to continue. Now a fund to be launched next week aims to capitalise on renewed interest in agricultural commodities. Wheat, corn,...

By Ellen Zhu Word Count: 1,018 . Companies Featured in This Article: Bear Stearns SHANGHAI -- With the introduction of stock-index futures -- derivatives products that may cool down the broader Chinese stock market -- looking ever more imminent, there are several companies in one sector whose fortunes could be helped: futures brokerages. By Ellen Zhu Word Count: 1,018 . Companies Featured in This Article: Bear Stearns SHANGHAI -- With the introduction of stock-index futures -- derivatives...

Under current policy, large farming operations raising five crops -- corn, cotton, rice, soybeans and wheat -- reap the bulk of subsidies, even when they are prospering. Blame it on the combined lobbying might of the large farming operations that pocket most of the benefits, their equipment and chemical suppliers, and the multinational food makers that buy their subsidized products. Members can plow their way to five more seasons of unfair, wasteful, misdirected and trade-disrupting...

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This year, bottlenecks in supply chains have added further pressure for example, space constraints at Australian ports have left coal ships queuing idly at sea. Shipping has been subject to the same forces that have been pushing up the prices of its cargoes. Imarex, the shipping exchange based in Oslo in which Nymex has just bought a 15 per cent stake, reported record dry bulk derivatives volumes in October, with the number of trades almost four times the level of a year ago. The Baltic...