Agro Commodities & Agricultural Produts

Question by Morrison Carley: The Economist magazine’s Commodities Price Index tracks the prices of the most:? A. Important finished goods that are traded internationally. B. Important minerals that are traded internationally. C. Important productive resources that are traded internationally. D. Heavily traded agricultural-based products Best answer: Answer by MartinWeiss(D) Foods currently make up 56.5% of this index What do you think? Answer…. Click here to Read More

Question by matjusm: Commodities trading questions? I want to clear some things up about commodities trading. At my university we had a presentation by a BP oil trader about oil trading and he said that basically what you’re doing in oil trading is making contracts to pick up a certain amount of oil bought at a certain price at a certain place. Firstly, does this principle apply to all commodities such as metals and agricultural products? And secondly, how do investors like investment banks and hedge funds go about their trading? Since they obviously do not have the tankers or refineries that for example BP has to actually carry out the physical side of taking delivery of the raw materials. Do they just buy futures and then hope to sell them on to other investors before the deadline comes to go and pick up the goods? And thirdly, is there any online game where I can trade in commodities (I am most interested in oil) at real market prices (but of course not for real money but just…. Click here to Read More

Commodities ETFs’ Achilles Heel Most commodities ETFs roll futures contracts frequently, at huge cost to their investors. Read more on ETFZone.com via Yahoo!…. Click here to Read More

Question by babygirl8924: What is the export commodities of the US? you know how some countries get their income off of selling or trading products(gold, coffee, silver, agricultural products)to other countries, so i was wandering how the US makes money… Best answer: Answer by cjlintexaswe already exported all of our manufacturing jobs. IT jobs are going away fast, even some fast food places are thinking of hiring Indian companies to take orders in the drive thru. Guess we dont really have much but debt to export anymore. A sad time for the country. What do you think? Answer…. Click here to Read More

Question by aaron: where can you get good commodities trading advice? besides getting a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics, where can you find a reputable broker for futures and options? Best answer: Answer by DJTTFrom a good broker. Generally they don’t charge either. Give your answer to this question…. Click here to Read More

Question by Sitapha: Why it is that Africa cannot be food self-sufficient? How long can we keep importing basic food commodities? As African governments strive to kick-back poverty, but still the issue of food sufficiency is not taking into seriously. Africa has the land and the environment to grow agricultural product. The west coast of Africa has favorable climate and the source of rivers to generate standard irrigation facilities to adopt mass food production. Best answer: Answer by tonalc1Drought in Africa is a dire problem, and it’s getting worse. You can’t feed an entire continent with food grown in small coastal areas. Know better? Leave your own answer in the…. Click here to Read More

Question by nympho: investing in commodities? hi, i want to invest in an index that includes at least some of the following agri. commod.:wheat, corn, coffee, sugar. is there an agricultural commodities index i can invest in? Best answer: Answer by Bryan KI do commodities I actually literally hold in my possession, METALS. Give your answer to this question…. Click here to Read More

Question by Perceiver: Can You Buy “Loose” Commodities? ? Are there ways of investing in the commodities market aside from Futures and Options contracts (and mutual funds). In other words, can one buy a commodity simply to hold, and then sell it whenever he/she desires like a stock? Ofcourse it can be done a number of ways with Gold, but in particular I mean agricultural commodities, cattle, etc. Best answer: Answer by Shyt Sbutt secks? What do you think? Answer…. Click here to Read More

Long-Term, Schmong-Term: Commodities Going Higher in ‘11 Earlier this week Dylan Grice gave us a rather sobering look at long-term trends in commodities. Today, cross asset watchers at J.P. Morgan Global Asset Allocation say they’re staying long in 2011. Read more on Wall Street Journal…. Click here to Read More