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Silver

Silver has long been valued as a precious metal, and it is used to make ornaments, jewelry, high-value tableware, utensils (hence the term silverware), and currency coins. Today, silver metal is also used in electrical contacts and conductors, in mirrors and in catalysis of chemical reactions. Its compounds are used in photographic film and dilute silver nitrate solutions and other silver compounds are used as disinfectants and microbiocides.

The principal sources of silver are the ores of copper, copper-nickel, lead, and lead-zinc obtained from Peru, Mexico, China, Australia, Chile, Poland and Serbia. Peru and Mexico have been mining silver since 1546 and are still major world producers. Top silver-producing mines are Proaño / Fresnillo (Mexico), Cannington (Queensland, Australia), Dukat (Russia), Uchucchacua (Peru) and Greens Creek mine (Alaska).

Most people know about the practical applications of silver, such as its use in jewelry, cookware and industrial products, but like gold, silver is also an actively traded commodity and can present investors with real profit potential. Like gold and other commodities, investing in silver is riskier than owning stocks and bonds, but that shouldn’t scare investors away from considering silver investments as part of their portfolios. And of course, there are silver stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) available, too.

Silver futures are traded at the New York Mercantile Exchange and the Tokyo Commodity Exchange. The New York Exchange deals in dollars per ounce, and trades futures in 5000 troy ounce packages. The Tokyo Exchange uses the equivalent of 965 troy ounces and prices are listed in yen per gram.

An important factor that silver investors continually tend to review is the gold/silver ratio. Investors use the ratio to evaluate the relative value of silver and to decide if it’s an optimal time to purchase gold or silver and how to diversify their precious-metal holdings. Over the last 100 years the price of silver and the gold/silver price ratio have fluctuated greatly due to competing industrial and store-of-value demands.

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Copper

Copper, one of the oldest commodities known to man, is a product with fortunes which directly reflect the state of the world economy. It is the world’s third most widely used metal, after iron and aluminum. Copper was first used as early as 10,000 years ago. There is evidence that by about 6400 B.C. copper was being melted and cast into objects in the area now known as Turkey. The first mention of the systematic extraction of copper ore comes from about 3800 B.C. when an Egyptian reference describes mining operations on the Sinai Peninsula .

Copper is a compound metal that is a reddish brown in colour. It occurs naturally in various minerals that can be mined, and is frequently employed as a component in a number of metal alloys, such as brass and bronze. Copper is available in a number of deliverable grades, and high grade copper futures contracts are traded under the ticker symbol of HG.The United States and Russia are at the forefront of refined copper production, whereas Western Europe and the USA are the leading consumers. As the developing world continues to industrialise, though, it is likely that the global copper market will continue to expand, leading to greater demand for copper and therefore rising copper commodity prices.

The copper commodity has a number of appealing features. As the copper commodity price is so closely tied to the state of the economy, global economic recovery can be a clear signal that demand for copper is due to increase, as decreased unemployment will result in more houses being constructed, for which copper is a key component. As copper is required for housing construction worldwide, such trends, observable by copper traders on copper futures charts, can result in a massive increase in the sellable price of copper and copper futures. With global demand likely to keep rising, copper trading could be very profitable in years to come. Copper commodities are traded on several major commodity exchanges, such as the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), the Mumbai-based Multi Commodity Exchange, the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) and the London Metal Exchange (LME).

Copper Market
There are several factors that are observable as affecting the copper forecast, of which copper traders must be aware. Copper future prices are affected mainly by the global demand for housing and electrical appliances, which is a direct reflection of the state of the global economy. Spot prices can also be affected by the current supplies of copper available in a particular region. The shift in the public towards a desire for cleaner energy sources may also affect the price of the copper commodity, as copper is an important component in solar panels, which are believed to become more prevalent in the coming years. The same is also true of cars that run on electric batteries. Improving living conditions worldwide may become a significant market factor, as any expansion of commercial, industrial and residential infrastructure increases the demand for copper.

Demand for copper is expected to remain high, especially in the electrical and electronics industries. The current trends in copper processing are towards methods and equipment that use less energy and produce less air pollution and solid waste. In the United States, this is a difficult assignment because of the stringent environmental controls and the very low-concentration copper ores that are available. In some cases, the production costs may increase significantly.

One encouraging trend is the increased use of recycled copper. Currently over half the copper being produced in the United States comes from recycled copper. Fifty-five percent of the recycled copper comes from copper machining operations, such as screw forming, and 45% comes from the recovery of used copper products, such as electrical wire and automobile radiators. The percentage of recycled copper is expected to grow as the costs of new copper processing increase.

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Gold

Gold is one of the coinage metals and has served as a symbol of wealth and a store of value throughout history. Gold standards have provided a basis for monetary policies. It also has been linked to a variety of symbolisms and ideologies. A total of 165,000 tonnes of gold have been mined in human history, as of 2009. This is roughly equivalent to 5.3 billion troy ounces or, in terms of volume, about 8,500 cubic meters.

Gold has been widely used throughout the world as a vehicle for monetary exchange, either by issuance and recognition of gold coins or other bare metal quantities, or through gold-convertible paper instruments by establishing gold standards in which the total value of issued money is represented in a store of gold reserves. Because of the softness of pure (24k) gold, it is usually alloyed with base metals for use in jewelry. In medieval times, gold was often seen as beneficial for the health. It is also used in electronics and for other industrial purposes.

The price of gold is determined on the open market, by a procedure known as the Gold Fixing in London. Originating in 1919, it provides a twice-daily benchmark figure to the industry. Demand for gold is widely spread around the world. East Asia, the Indian sub-continent and the Middle East accounted for 72% of world demand in 2007. 55% of demand is attributable to just five countries – India, Italy, Turkey, USA and China, each market driven by a different set of socio-economic and cultural factors. The main sources of supply are:

Mine Production
Scrap Sales
Central bank reserve disposals
Of all the precious metals, gold is the most popular as an investment. Investors generally buy gold as a hedge or safe haven against any economic, political, social or currency-based crises. These crises include investment market declines, currency failure, inflation, war and social unrest. Investors also buy gold during times of a bull market in an attempt to gain financially.

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Crude Oil

Petroleum, in one form or another, has been used since ancient times, and is now important across society, including in economy, politics and technology. The rise in importance was mostly due to the invention of the internal combustion engine, the rise in commercial aviation and the increasing use of plastic.

The top three oil producing countries are Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the United States. About 80% of the world’s readily accessible reserves are located in the Middle East, with 62.5% coming from the Arab world: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iraq, Qatar and Kuwait. The top three consuming regions are United States, China and Japan.

Oil prices are largely controlled by OPEC, or the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, including Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela. These 12 countries control 40% of the world’s crude oil supply. This puts OPEC in the unique position of having a lot of influence on the price of gas around the world. OPEC controls gas prices by either increasing or decreasing the amount of oil available. If the amount available goes down, the prices go up. This is the law of supply and demand. This increase or decrease in supply by OPEC can affect the cost of oil in indirect ways as well. The cost of crude oil controls more than just the price of gasoline; heating costs are also affected. Higher gas prices also influence the cost of travel. If gas prices are high, car buyers are more likely to buy smaller, more gas efficient vehicles. Fewer families can afford to travel, decreasing the money brought into the economy by tourism.

Crude oil began futures trading on the NYMEX in 1983 and is the most heavily traded commodity. Crude Oil Futures trade in units of 1,000 U.S. barrels (42,000 gallons). Crude Oil Futures trade 30 consecutive months plus long-dated futures initially listed 36, 48, 60, 72, and 84 months prior to delivery. Additionally, trading can be executed at an average differential to the previous day’s settlement prices for periods of two to 30 consecutive months in a single transaction. Crude Oil Futures are quoted in dollars and cents per barrel. The price of a barrel of oil is highly dependent on both its grade, determined by factors such as its specific gravity or API and its sulphur content, and its location. The vast majority of oil is not traded on an exchange but on an over-the-counter basis. The price of oil, like the price of all commodities, is subject to major swings over time, particularly tied to the overall business cycle.

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Corn

An important food plant that is native to America, corn is thought to have originated in either Mexico or Central America. It has been a staple food in native civilizations since primitive times with some of the earliest traces of meal made from corn dating back about 7,000 years.
Corn has played and still continues to play a vital role in Native American cultures. It has been greatly honored for its ability to provide not only sustenance as food but shelter, fuel, decoration and more.

Corn is widely cultivated throughout the world, and a greater weight of corn is produced each year than any other grain. The United States produces almost half of the world’s harvest. Other top countries include China, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, India, Pakistan and France.

Corn is by far the largest component of global coarse-grain trade, accounting for about three-quarters of total volume in recent years. (Coarse grains make up a common trade category that includes corn, sorghum, barley, oats, and rye.). Processed-corn products and byproducts—including corn meal, flour, sweeteners, and corn gluten feed—are also traded.

The United States is the world’s largest producer and exporter of corn. Corn grain exports represent a significant source of demand for U.S. producers and make the largest net contribution to the U.S. agricultural trade balance of all the agricultural commodities, indicating the importance of corn exports to the U.S. economy. While the United States dominates world corn trade, exports account for only a relatively small portion of demand for U.S. corn—about 15 percent. This means that corn prices are largely determined by supply-and-demand relationships in the U.S. market, and the rest of the world must adjust to prevailing U.S. prices. This makes world corn trade and prices dependent on weather in the U.S. Corn Belt. However, Argentina, the second-largest corn exporter in most years, is in the Southern Hemisphere. Farmers there plant their corn after the size of the U.S. crop is known, providing a quick, market-oriented supply response to short U.S. crops. Several countries—including Brazil, Ukraine, Romania, and South Africa—have had significant corn exports when crops were large or international prices attractive.

The main usage of corn is as a staple food in many regions of the world. It is also used in chemicals and medicines, bio fuel, ornaments, cattle feed and as an investable commodity.

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Coffee

The earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the fifteenth century, in the Sufi monasteries around in Yemen. It was here in Arabia that coffee beans were first roasted and brewed, in a similar way to how it is now prepared. By the 16th century, it had reached the rest of the Middle East, Persia, Turkey, and northern Africa. Coffee then spread to Italy, and to the rest of Europe, to Indonesia, and to the Americas. The importance of coffee in the world economy cannot be overstated. Coffee is often mentioned as one of the main economic goods used in imperial control of trade, and with colonized trade patterns in “goods” such as slaves, coffee, and sugar, which defined Brazilian trade.

After petroleum, coffee is the world’s most important traded commodity, standing above coal, meat, wheat and sugar. The global harvest, however, is subject to considerable fluctuations from year to year. These fluctuations are caused by a variety of factors. Besides climate-induced fluctuations, both the amount of coffee produced and the price charged for it are determined by the commercial policy interests of the producing and purchasing countries. This explains why the total annual harvest figures tend to be variable rather than constant. From year to year, it appears that the quality of the harvest continues to be irregular, unpredictable and unstable. So, in order to maintain some control and minimise the inevitable fluctuations in production and subsequently in price, cultivating and purchasing countries regularly renew a ‘Coffee Agreement’. This aims to stabilise the price between supply and demand. To date, effective implementation has met with limited success.

Brazil is the largest coffee exporting nation, followed by Vietnam. Indonesia is the third-largest exporter and the largest producer of washed arabica coffee. Robusta coffees, traded in London at much lower prices than New York’s arabica, are preferred by large industrial clients, such as multinational roasters and instant coffee producers because of the lower cost.
While coffee is not technically a commodity (it is fresh produce; its value is directly affected by the length of time it is held), coffee is bought and sold by roasters, investors and price speculators as a tradable commodity. Coffee futures contracts for Grade 3 washed arabicas are traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange under ticker symbol KT, with contract deliveries occurring every year in March, May, July, September, and December. Higher and lower grade arabica coffees are sold through other channels. Futures contracts for robusta coffee are traded on the London Liffe exchange and, since 2007, on the New York ICE exchange.

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Cotton

Relevant references point to two distinct geographical origins of cultivated cotton, namely, Asia and pre-Columbian America. The first cotton fabric would date back to approximately as early as 3,200 BC, as revealed by fragments of cloth found at the Mohenjo-Daro archaeological site on the banks of the River Indus. From India, cotton textiles probably passed to Mesopotamia, where the trade started around 600 years BC. The Arab conquests introduced the first cotton manufacturing facilities into Spain (Granada), Venice, and Milan. In England, the first cotton-spinning factory opened its doors in Manchester in 1641. This date marked the beginning of the cotton industry in Europe. The industrial revolution of eighteenth century Europe paved the way for the most far-reaching, influential transformation of cotton textile manufacturing.

Besides being a major natural fibre crop, cotton also provides edible oil and seed by-products for livestock food. Cottonseed oil is a vegetable oil ranking fifth in world use among edible oils. The cottonseed meal is usually used as roughage in the diet of cattle for its high protein and energetic value. Cotton is bought and sold by investors and price speculators as a tradable commodity on two different stock exchanges in the United States of America. Cotton futures contracts are traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) under the ticker symbol TT. They are delivered every year in March, May, July, October, and December. Cotton #2 futures contracts are traded on the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) under the ticker symbol CT. They are delivered every year in March, May, July, October, and December.

On the international level, despite increasing local processing (especially in developing countries), cotton is still the main traded agricultural raw materials with more than 30% of cotton production (approximately 6.3 million tonnes of fibre) traded per annum since the beginning of the 1980s. United States is by large the dominant exporter with regard to cotton fibre.

Cotton is grown in 90 countries. The four main producing countries are China, India, the USA and Pakistan and account for approximately three quarters of world output. If we add Uzbekistan and Brasil, six countries would account for 83% of world cotton production. Since the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Uzbekistan has been the second major cotton exporter after America.

Despite increasing local processing (especially in developing countries), cotton is still the main traded agricultural raw materials with more than 30% of cotton production (approximately 6.3 million tonnes of fibre) traded per annum since the beginning of the 1980s.

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Dollar Index

In light of the dollar’s supreme importance in the global economy the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) developed an index to ascertain moves in the currency. The ICE U.S. Dollar Index (USDX) is the world’s most heavily traded currency index futures contract. Based on an index created by the U.S. Federal Reserve system in 1973, the USDX is comprised of six trade-weighted international currencies: the Euro, Japanese Yen, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Swedish Krona and Swiss Franc. The USDX began trading as a futures contract in 1985 and now trades exclusively on the ICE platform, 22 hours a day. The index is widely recognised as the leading global benchmark for the international value of the U.S. dollar.
The relative weightage with the components is given below:

Euro (EUR), 57.6% weight
Japanese yen (JPY), 13.6% weight
Pound sterling (GBP), 11.9% weight
Canadian dollar (CAD), 9.1% weight
Swedish krona (SEK), 4.2% weight and
Swiss franc (CHF) 3.6% weight.
USDX started trading soon after the dismantling of the Bretton Woods system. At its start, the value of the US Dollar Index was 100.000. It has since traded as high as the mid-160s and as low as 70.698 on March 16, 2008, the lowest since its inception in 1973. The makeup of the “basket” has been altered only once, when several European currencies were subsumed by the Euro at the start of 1999. USDX is updated whenever US Dollar markets are open, which is from Sunday evening New York time (early Monday morning Asia time) for 24 hours a day to late Friday afternoon New York time.

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Rough Rice

The term Paddy rice or Rough rice is the rice that comes from the field after harvest. Paddy Rice gets it name from the Paddy Bird more commonly known in the UK as the Java Sparrow. Eaten by just about all seed eating birds, it is a favourite for many finches, parakeets and parrots. It is the most original form of a rice kernel. After the harvest, rice is separated from the ear into individual grains. The grain of rice has a hard husk. Each grain is separate. After drying, the end result is the Paddy, whose kernel is still inside the hull. The husk (or hull) that covers rice is much thicker and tougher than most cereal grain husks. That is why, paddy rice is also called rough rice. After the milling process, the out hull is removed, along with the bran layer. And the end product becomes white rice.

Rice plants have been traced back to 5000 BC, but the practice of rice growing is believed to have originated in areas of China, and southern and eastern Asia, in about 2000 BC. Most believe the roots of rice come from 3000 BC India, where natives discovered the plant growing in the wild and began to experiment with it. African rice has been cultivated for 3500 years. In the Middle East and Mediterranean Europe, it started around 800 BC. Rice spread throughout Italy and then France, after the middle of the 15th century, later propagating to all the continents during the great age of European exploration. In 1694, rice arrived in South Carolina, probably originating from Madagascar. The Spanish brought rice to South America at the beginning of the 18th century. Rice cultivation has been carried into all regions having the necessary warmth and abundant moisture favorable to its growth, mainly subtropical rather than hot or cold.

Rice is produced worldwide and is the world’s second or third largest staple crop, with corn being the largest and wheat nearly the same. Production is geographically concentrated in Western and Eastern Asia. Asia is the biggest rice producer, accounting for 90% of the world’s production and consumption of rice. China and India, which account for more than one-third of global population supply over half of the world’s rice. Brazil is the most important non-Asian producer, followed by the United States. Italy ranks first in Europe.

World trade figures are very different, as only about 5–6% of rice produced is traded internationally. The largest three exporting countries are Thailand, Vietnam, and the United States. Major importers usually include Bangladesh, the Philippines, Brazil and some African and Persian Gulf countries. Although China and India are the two largest producers of rice in the world, both countries consume the majority of the rice produced domestically, leaving little to be traded internationally.

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Sugar

For centuries, sugar has been a highly valued and widely traded commodity. Sugar cane production originated, according to historians, some 2,500 years ago on the Indian subcontinent. Today, sugar is a basic part of the production and consumption of many foods worldwide which has made sugar futures very necessary to hedge production and consumption price risk.

There are two main types of sugar grown in the world: cane and beet. Both produce the identical refined sugar product. Sugar cane accounts for about 70% of world production. Beet sugar comes from the sugar beet plant, which grows in temperate climates and accounts for the balance of world production. India, Brazil, China, Thailand, Cuba and Mexico are among the leading sugar cane producers. European Union nations, the Russian Federation and Ukraine produce the majority of all sugar beets. The European Union, Brazil, Thailand, Australia, Cuba and Ukraine are leading sugar exporters.

Industrialized nations account for most sugar consumption. The European Union, Russian Federation, United States, China and Japan are among the world’s largest sugar importers. Most sugar is either consumed in the country where it is produced under government controlled pricing arrangements or moved from one country to another under long-term supply agreements. The sugar not subject to such agreements is freely traded among a number of nations, corporations and individuals. This makes the market for sugar a “residual” market – a market in which freely traded sugar is only a fraction of worldwide production.

The sugar industry closely monitors the level of sugar stocks relative to sugar consumption as a measure of available supply. In the past, small changes in the ratio have led to large sugar futures price movements in the opposite direction.

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Wheat

Wheat is one of the first cereals known to have been domesticated. The archaeological record suggests that it first occurred in the regions known as the Fertile Crescent, and the Nile Delta. These include southeastern parts of Turkey, Syria, the Levant, Israel, and Egypt. Wheat is the staple food of millions of people. Wheat, which can be produced in a wide range of climates and soil conditions, grows in areas as far north as the Arctic Circle and as far south as the equator. It is the most important food grain in the world that ranks second in total production as a cereal crop after maize. China, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the European Community and the United States, lead in world wheat production.

The world wheat market is enormous. Annual global wheat consumption is in excess of 550 million tonnes (20 billion bushels). The global grain trade has always been of interest to investors because wheat represents one of the single most important components of world food consumption. Wheat is one of the worlds key staple products, with about 10 percent of production traded on world markets each year.

Investing in wheat futures allows traders to participate in the agricultural markets without holding a physical market position. Investing in wheat futures also provides growers with a risk management tool to protect the price of their expected purchase or sale of physical grain. The United States is one of the world’s largest wheat producing countries. Japan is one of the largest importers of wheat in the world, with imports originating from Australia, Canada, and the United States. Exportable wheat supplies are also available from Argentina, Europe, Ukraine and other areas of the world, depending on crop situations. This makes wheat a truly global market and allows traders to enter into a global environment to create a broad trading strategy using wheat alone or in combination with other grains. Wheat futures are traded on the Chicago Board of Trade, Kansas City Board of Trade, and Minneapoli Grain Exchange, and have delivery dates in March (H), May (K), July (N), September (U), and December (Z).

Like most crops, wheat tends to follow a seasonal price pattern based on the weather. If the winter wheat crop has broken dormancy in good shape and spring rains are sufficient, wheat prices may decline seasonally going into the harvest period as the market assumes an injection of new, larger wheat supplies. After harvesting reveals the size of the crop, wheat prices tend to move up seasonally from June/July through the end of the year. This seasonal price pattern is also the basis for a typical wheat/corn spread that is, buy wheat in June/July when prices presumably are at their lowest level of the season and sell corn, which often rallies to a seasonal high in mid-summer based on weather fears.

As a crop grown in many areas of the world, wheat has a fairly stable price history and more trend-based moves compared to other commodity sectors. However, traders and investors in the wheat market must understand how intermarket influences affect the market on a continuous basis. U.S. wheat has to compete with crops such as corn, milo/sorghum, oats, soybeans and sunflowers, depending on the area of the country, so production incentives in the U.S. can influence wheat production. As a result, wheat prices tend to trade in concert with prices for other crops, sometimes as a leader but more often as a follower.

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ChartCo International is an independent third party which provides facilitation services to clients of reputable internationally licensed foreign brokerage firms.
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