Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Where Germany's secret wealth stored

Gold panning for tourists: The search for Rheingold is also worth a grand scale.

 gray-green sea water simmers. Slowly emerges a huge bucket of white swirls. Thick steel cables pull the laden with 20 tons of rocks, mud and sand from the gripper Kiessee. In the former course of the Rhine north of Karlsruhe, the Swiss building materials group Holcim dig for raw materials for cement production.

Sunday, August 5, 2012

agricultural commodities prices on the rise

South American meat companies remain calm
The soaring prices for agricultural commodities have caught cold meat producers - with the exception of the large corporations in South America: they come with the highest prices more clearly. That pleases analysts.
'Foods Brasil (BR Foods) is the world's largest chicken producer.
Sao Paulo in early June still expecting the meat companies in the world with a highly profitable year: Finally, in the U.S. should fail, the soybean and corn harvest at record levels. The farmers had planted the largest historic area in the Midwest with corn. The chicken, pork and beef producers were pleased to have low prices for its main precursors. But then it started in the U.S., the strongest drought for almost a half a century. The prices of agricultural commodities exploded.

The food industry caught the bull market in agricultural goods on the wrong foot - especially in the U.S.: they had expected because of the oversupply in their purchase prices on the futures markets less secure than ever.
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Friday, December 9, 2011

Commodities in the evening

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New York / Chicago / London is on the commodity markets on Friday night no mood to buy. Listed on the New York Nymex U.S. light oil (December contract) is currently at $ 98.87 ($ -0.31). The December contract for a gallon of heating oil is traded weaker in New York at $ 2.94 compared to the previous day two cents. The December contract for a gallon of unleaded gasoline is trading weaker at $ 2.63 2 cents.

The record for precious metals futures firmer. The price for one troy ounce of gold (December contract) become more expensive by 0.44 per cent to $ 1,715. The ounce of silver (December contract) traded 2.46 percent higher at $ 32.23. At the same ounce of platinum (December contract) at $ 1,511 (+1.14 percent) is traded.

The mixed agricultural commodities tend. The sugar futures (December contract) is trading at $ 24.10 per pound 3.15 percent firmer. The Future easier for arabica coffee (December contract) traded at 231 cents per pound 0.38 percent. Cocoa (December contract) was last traded at $ 2,433 per tonne 0.91 percent firmer.

The corn futures (December contract) traded at 595 cents per bushel 1.04 percent easier. In Chicago wheat December contract falls by 0.43 percent to 601 cents per bushel. For soybeans the December contract is commodity trading at 1126 cents per bushel 1.88 percent firmer.

The German consumer prices have remained stable for the previous month, last +0.0%. The annual inflation rate is 2.4% and thus at the same level. The official Erstschätzung was +2.4%. The value calculated for European harmonized consumer price index for Germany increased in January over the previous year by 2.8%. In a monthly harmonized index remains unchanged. The estimate of 28 November 2011 was +0.0%.

The German trade balance for October has a surplus of 11.6 billion euro to 17.3 billion euros in the previous month and 14.5 billion euros a year earlier. Stranded in the current year are already € 130.3 billion, compared with € 128.4 billion in the comparable period last year.

The number of employees in the licensed trades in Germany's total in the third quarter of this year increased over the previous year by 0.2%. At the same time, sales have increased by 5.7%.

The German labor cost index has fallen in the third quarter of 2011 by 0.9%. The same quarter of the index in Germany rose by 2.9%.

The current account of all 27 EU Member States has in the third quarter in the first release from a deficit of 17.2 billion €. In the previous quarter, the deficit stood at 34.5 billion euros. In the same quarter of last year the company had a minus of 18.1 billion euros had been paid. The services account of the EU shows the third quarter in the first release of a surplus of 25.1 billion euros in the comparable quarter a year earlier to 22.6 billion euros.

Monday, September 5, 2011

INTERGEO 2011: First Navigation Conference as part of the trade fair


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INTERGEO 2011: First Navigation Conference as part of the international trade fair
INTERGEO Exhibitor number grows to over 500

Karlsruhe, 31.08.2011. INTERGEO is the first time invited to the Navigation Conference. The Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS) together with the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) reject their conference to the international trade fair and conference for geodesy, geoinformation and land management, 27 to 29 September in Nuremberg. "This is only logical, for navigation, information technology and geographic information in combination pose a huge potential for transport services innovation. In the dialogue on sector boundaries to achieve synergies, the German company, not least small and medium-sized to bring forward in the international competition, "says Rainer Bomba, State BMVBS. Meanwhile, the number of exhibitors of the trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management rose to more than 500 companies and institutions from 31 nations.


Under the motto "intelligent orientation in the world," the conference topic areas such as networked navigation menu in the intelligent city, real-time services, illuminated by "cloud computing" and the appropriate way to deal with privacy issues. The program of Navigation Conference on 28 September in Nuremberg, CCN Ost congress center can be found online. Here on the website of the BMVBS is the free registration to 21 September.
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A close connection with the exhibition is provided by the Forum for Satellite Navigation. The central platform of the navigation initiatives in Germany under the auspices and facilitation of BMVBS presented for the first time with a joint stand at INTERGEO. The booth in Hall 6 is located in close proximity to the presentations by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European GNSS Agency (GSA).


The DVW eV - Society for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management hosted the
INTERGEO, 27 to 29 September 2011 in Nuremberg.

This press release was published on openPR.


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In the sixty year history, HINTE more than 600 consumer and trade exhibitions and conferences in all major locations in Germany has done. By measuring e.g. Meanwhile in Belgrade and Istanbul future insurance quotes markets in the Southeast European Economic Area will be developed. Important, some leading international trade fairs in the B2C and B2B areas, the portfolio of location-independent trade experts.

The subsidiary HINTE Marketing & Media GmbH offers on the exhibition, extensive marketing communications and PR services.

With the HINTE Event Services GmbH, the independent organization of events is completely guaranteed.

Innovative ideas are developed in the B2C sector since late 2009 with German and Swiss specialists in the fair trade network GmbH.


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Reference year: 2009/2010
Exhibitions: 9
Of these at home: 8
Exhibitors: 2,700
Visitors: 230,000

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Good deal with commodities

"Many resources are always scarce, are to promote more difficult and thereby tend to be more expensive. Moreover, the world's population is growing rapidly and people in the emerging markets become wealthier and more upmarket. In addition, without prejudice to the thriving industrial production, the demand for raw materials are constantly increasing. "

This assessment will be followed by a call for the environmentally conscious, resource-saving way of life, you might say. Finally, it is indeed possible for all and long range. But far from it. The author of these lines is not due to warn against over-exploitation of Mother Earth or to express fundamental doubts about the outlined development. Rather, "these developments are good chances for investments in commodities," says the text further. This comes from the newsletter of a bank.

Good deal with commodities

And indeed, with raw materials can make good cash. Prices soared in the past from time to time in the air, brought investors such good profits and consumers higher prices. "I do not care," some people will think. & Play but cobalt, platinum, copper Co. only a minor role in the everyday life of the Otto-Normal-consumer. But resources are also the alltagsbestimmende oil and - even more importantly - sugar, grain, rice, salt, many other (basic) food. In recent years, food prices fall again into the headlines. The reason for this are often extreme weather conditions that make the harvests are bad, or even threaten the stocks.

The devastating fires in Russia threaten large parts of the wheat fields, the Government has imposed a temporary ban on exports of the grain. From June to August, the price of wheat on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has doubled. Cost per ton of wheat in June, around 100 €, it was in August to pay a little more than € 200 per tonne. In Brazil, rainfall can vary the sugar harvest lousy, too little rain in India has resulted in exactly the same result. The price of sugar has only increased in July by 22 percent, year-end industry insiders expect a further increase of 28 percent again.

Determined by supply and demand only the prices?

The fact that supply and demand determine the prices of food is also, in a market economy only logical. The question is whether there are only really supply and demand, driving up prices. The clear answer is no, unfortunately! "Right now the market is determined by fear," says some of the agricultural analyst at Commerzbank, Eugen Weinberg. Speculators are at work and push up prices for agricultural commodities. Although the price increases go back not only on them, so the vineyard to the "Lausitzer Rundschau on, but the speculators can speed up the movement. And they do. The chairman of the Agricultural Trade Group BayWa, Klaus Josef Lutz, estimates that the price goes to 70 percent on the account of speculators. In some markets, harvest and demand are only secondary factors for the pricing.

We must strive not like the old Native American prophecy that man will find out only after the loss of all life, that you can not eat money. But the question must be allowed, whether with such essential items like food does not require a restriction on the speculation. Claims were often loud and then they not only came from corners, from which they would have been expected anyway. So the Wall Street legend George Soros called for in 2008 a ban on commodity speculation for U.S. pension funds. The time had severe price increases caused by just such transactions. "It's as if we secretly hoarded food in a hunger crisis in order to make profits with the rising prices," Soros then thundered in an interview with Stern. Soros himself was famous for a stock market bet against the British pound, which would also make him more rich.

Shoulder to shoulder against international speculators needed

Finance Minister Schäuble called earlier this year, also an "international shoulder to shoulder" in the regulation of commodity speculation. Condition he was not yet, however. Finally examples from the past to the argument per speculation ban be used: during the Great Depression of the 30s were futures markets in Germany in part is prohibited.

The opponents of speculation bans lead the positive aspects of price bets into the field. In the futures markets are also producers and consumers would hedge against price fluctuations. Are contracts for delivery in two months, for example, for wheat bought, so after two months relating to that fixed price, then even if wheat is actually more expensive. The producer has such planning and immediate value, the risk of the speculator. Also rising commodity prices, speculation can get something out supporters. Permanently low prices would stifle investment in production facilities, etc., which could then turn to a decline in production and thus lead to a tighter range with even higher rates.
However welcome such effects of speculation are, for the speculators are only just at the end of side effects. Their goal is not to give producers and consumers planning security and price stability. They simply want to achieve the maximum possible profit. Therefore, at least as monitoring mechanisms should be established that ensure that these benefits disappear (side) effects by speculation and not speculative excesses can be prevented. Especially in times of severe crisis could be the suspension of commodity speculation an effective way. But for this they need actually calls for an international shoulder closure, the Finance Minister Schäuble. But that is probably only a stronger form of suffering.

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the price of wheat broke last Friday, one way, by 7.4 percent. Maybe not a good signal for the speculation opponents.

Commodities: Chinese import data with no clear direction

Category: Commodity Research External | Time: 12:09
Energy: Oil prices lost in the morning one percent to $ 80.5 per barrel. In addition to a stronger U.S. dollar as published in charge of the night import data from China. The second largest oil consumer in the world has imported 19 million tons of crude oil in July. Thus, imports were 17.5% lower than last month and a decrease of 3.2% for the first time since March 2009 back on the previous year. Prepare for a permanent weakening of demand still seems premature. The sharp decline in imports, compared with June, first explained in the record imports the previous month. In addition, a pipeline explosion left the port of Dalian mid-July that has affected imports temporarily. The damage has now been resolved, so that expected in August, again with a normalization of imports. The evening show today by the U.S. Department of Energy EIA report should be published months that China remains the mainstay of the oil demand. So far, the EIA expects a rise in global oil demand by 1.5 million barrels per day this year and next. The increase is thereby almost completely borne by the developing countries, especially China, Saudi Arabia and Brazil. At this perception might initially change anything.
In the evening released the API, the U.S. stock data for the past week. It is expected a drop in crude oil stocks by 1.6 million barrels, as imports are likely to have returned to normal after the strong rise in July. The inventory reduction should however be hampered by a decline in refinery utilization. However, should the product be stocks continued to rise, which indicates a further narrowing of the crack spreads.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

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