ShareCast News - Commodities
Commodities: Crude at nine-month high ahead of Fed
Crude oil futures settled at the highest level since September 2012 as investors increasingly bet that the Federal Open Market Committee will keep stimulus levels unchanged.[Yesterday 06:12]
Commodities: Crude settles lower as geopolitical focus dominates
Crude oil futures settled in the red on Monday as investors assess the US government's decision to supply arms to the rebels in Syria.[Tue 06:07]
Commodities: Syria tensions fuel crude oil rise
Crude oil futures rose to a four-month high on Friday as traders kept a close eye on rising tensions between Syria and the US.[Mon 06:09]
Commodities: EM currency weakness may weigh on agricultural prices
Thursday trading saw a certain divergence between commodities linked to industrial nations, such as the US, and some of their agricultural peers.[Fri 06:39]
Commodities: Crude firms despite supply spike
Crude oil futures bagged a modest gain on Wednesday, despite weekly US stockpile data showing an unexpected rise in crude oil supplies.[13 Jun '13]
Commodities: Oil slips as OPEC trims outlook
Crude oil futures nudged lower on Tuesday as the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries lowered demand and economic growth forecasts.[12 Jun '13]
Commodities: Crude slips after sluggish China data
Crude oil futures nursed a modest decline on Monday as traders took fright at weaker than expected Chinese economic data.[11 Jun '13]
Commodities: Crude boosted by steady job growth in May
Crude oil futures settled 1.3 per cent higher on Friday and scored a weekly gain of over 4 per cent as investors took heart from encouraging May US non-farm payroll data.[10 Jun '13]
Commodities round-up: Commodities come under pressure
The commodity space came under considerable selling pressure on Thursday as the losses in global equity markets gathered pace ahead of today´s non-farm payrolls data Stateside and the set of Chinese macroeconomic data due out tomorrow in China.[7 Jun '13]
Commodities: Crude out of the doldrums as supplies shrink
Crude oil futures perked up on Wednesday after a weekly US supply report showed a bigger than expected draw on crude stockpiles.[6 Jun '13]
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