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Tuesday 31st August 2010
- ABN AMRO/VM Group Precious Metal Investment Weekly - 31st August 2010
The ABN AMRO/VM Group Precious Metal Investment Weekly follows key trends in the major futures markets and exchange-traded funds for all four precious metals.
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Monday 23rd August 2010
- ABN AMRO/VM Group Precious Metal Investment Weekly - 23rd August 2010
The ABN AMRO/VM Group Precious Metal Investment Weekly follows key trends in the major futures markets and exchange-traded funds for all four precious metals.
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Wednesday 18th August 2010
- ABN AMRO/VM Group Gold Hedging Report - August 2010 | Press release
The August 2010 issue of the Gold Hedging Report, published by VM Group/Haliburton Minerals Services and ABN AMRO, examines the changes in hedge positions in the global gold hedge book in Q2 2010
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Tuesday 17th August 2010
- ABN AMRO/VM Group Metals Monthly - August 2010 | Press release
The August issue of the Metals Monthly, published by VM Group and ABN AMRO, looks at the recent collapse of the dry bulk shipping market, and examines what this crash in carrier charges might mean for bulk commodities – notably iron ore and coking coal.
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Monday 16th August 2010
- ABN AMRO/VM Group World Agronomy Report - August 2010 | Press release
The ABN AMRO/VM Group World Agronomy Report this month we looks at Obama throws in the towel. President Obama may not be running out of ideas, but he is running out of time when it comes to climate change legislation. Having pledged to tackle the thorny issue of carbon emissions through a tough new energy bill, he has capitulated in the face of opposition within his own party. This is the death knell of his presidency
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- ABN AMRO/VM Group Precious Metal Investment Weekly - 16th August 2010
The ABN AMRO/VM Group Precious Metal Investment Weekly follows key trends in the major futures markets and exchange-traded funds for all four precious metals.
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Friday 13th August 2010
- ABN AMRO/VM Group Energy Monthly August | Press release
The August edition of the VM Group/ABN AMRO Energy Monthly the major new oil resource in Brazil comes under the spotlight. Such has been the flow of good news about his country’s vast energy resources that Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has already declared God to be “a Brazilian”. With what could be up to 100bn barrels of oil lying deep under the Atlantic, Lula says that Brazil is entering a new energy-rich era, in which his country’s new oil will help bring global crude oil prices down, allowing poor countries to buy more of it. Yet there is plenty of scope for all this to turn sour – the levels of required investment are mind-boggling and there are doubts about whether Brazil’s partially state-owned oil major, Petrobras, has sufficient technological expertise to go it alone.
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Monday 9th August 2010
- ABN AMRO/VM Group Precious Metal Investment Weekly - 9th August 2010
The ABN AMRO/VM Group Precious Metal Investment Weekly follows key trends in the major futures markets and exchange-traded funds for all four precious metals.
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Friday 30th July 2010
- ABN AMRO/VM Group Agricommodity Monthly - June | Press release
The July issue is a Cocoa Quarterly. Our estimate for the 2009-2010 global supply-demand outlook is a deficit of 88,000t (unchanged from our previous report in June). We have revised lower by 25,000t our estimate for the global position in 2010-2011, implying a statistical surplus of 47,000t (against an estimated 72,000t surplus in our June report). The reduction to our previous forecast is entirely attributable to the forthcoming Ivory Coast main crop and is related to current weather uncertainties there. In addition, the report each month carries an informative commodity-related feature. In July we turn the spotlight on the severe drought that is afflicting the Black Sea region.
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Monday 26th July 2010
- ABN AMRO/VM Group Precious Metal Investment Weekly - 26th July 2010
The ABN AMRO/VM Group Precious Metal Investment Weekly follows key trends in the major futures markets and exchange-traded funds for all four precious metals.
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