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Moneycontrol.com
Oil prices may rise on optimism over Greece debt deal
Moneycontrol.com
The Federal Reserve`s pledge to keep interest rates at a record low of zero to 0.25% until late 2014 boosted risk appetite across the commodities market, and helped drive a USD 1.10 a barrel gain in US. crude futures this week.

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Rare-Earth Minerals 201
Motley Fool
The commodities market can be awfully volatile. If Molycorp isn't able to come through on its low-cost structure, it would ruin the entire investment thesis. And China is also a huge question mark. Should it reverse course and once again offer up its

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How Europe's crisis could feed the commodity bulls
Financial Times
The current economic slowdown would mask the tightening, but at some point in the medium term future – most executives say about five years – the commodities market could well realise that the debt crisis was both a bearish and a bullish factor.

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CNBC.com
Oil Prices May Rise on Optimism Over Greece Debt Deal: Survey
CNBC.com
expect oil prices The Federal Reserve's pledge to keep interest rates at a record low of zero to 0.25 percent until late 2014 boosted risk appetite across the commodities market, and helped drive a $1.10 a barrel gain in US crude futures this week.

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Banks may get to hedge in commodity futures
Business Standard
“This move will further deepen the commodities market and improve liquidity as banks' presence will automatically attract big corporates to hedge their risks,” said Naveen Mathur, associate director, Angel Broking. In addition to the Abhijit Sen

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Columbia Daily Tribune
Pipeline decision is a sticky wicket
Columbia Daily Tribune
Like most commodities, crude oil is sold on an international commodities market. In this case it is Brent Light Sweet Crude traded on the Intercontinental Oil Exchange, or ICE, and accounts for the pricing of two-thirds of all crude oil traded in the

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CBC.ca
FDA Detains OJ Imports After Finding Fungicide
NPR
9 and went as high as $2.1995 per pound before falling back. Orange juice futures rose 4.3 cents, or 2.1 percent, on the news of the positive tests Friday and ended at $2.109 per pound on the New York commodities market.
FDA detains orange juice imports after finding traces of fungicide in border Washington Post

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Phillips & Cohen Says Appointment of Director for CFTC Whistleblower Office
MarketWatch (press release)
The CFTC has been given many new enforcement duties under the Dodd-Frank Act to protect the public from fraud and manipulation in the commodities market. This increased authority includes setting rules to reduce risk in the derivatives market,

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Mutual Funds' Embrace of Commodities Under Fire
Wall Street & Technology
By Reuters WASHINGTON – Mutual funds are moving into the commodities market and top US tax officials on Thursday at a Senate hearing defended their decisions to permit this expansion, while lawmakers expressed concerns that funds may be skirting the

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Special Focus: USDJPY
Inside Futures
EURJPY, AUDUSD and USDCAD) and the Dollar Index utilizing various technical tools and strategies. He also covers the commodities market twice in a week focusing on in-depth technical developments in GOLD, CRUDE OIL, SILVER, CORN, WHEAT and CRB Index.

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