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Market comes back to bite
October 11, 2010, 3:10 PM IST
It has been a hellish week for Indian traders pricing export deals for cotton, sugar, protein meals, corn, and coffee. The last six hair-raising days have seen prices crashing and then rising like the Indian cricket team. But a lot less fun.
October 11, 2010, 3:10 PM IST
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Making a meal of chicken fry
October 5, 2010, 9:39 AM IST
Our love for fat is growing as fast as our economy, making it the perfect profit opportunity. This year, India has imported a record quantity of cooking oil. Yet, homegrown soya beans are currently the…
October 5, 2010, 9:39 AM IST
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Making a meal of chicken fry
October 5, 2010, 8:25 AM IST
Our love for fat is growing as fast as our economy, making it the perfect profit opportunity.
October 5, 2010, 8:25 AM IST
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Are Indian cotton prices a bubble?
October 4, 2010, 9:48 AM IST
What will happen once export shipments finish in December? That’s the biggest question before India’s several thousand-crore cotton market today. Government says cotton prices will crash. It believes the 70% price rise over the last…
October 4, 2010, 9:48 AM IST
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Are Indian cotton prices a bubble?
October 4, 2010, 6:59 AM IST
What will happen once export shipments finish in December? That’s the biggest question before India’s several-thousand-crore cotton market today.
October 4, 2010, 6:59 AM IST
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India in Wonderland
September 30, 2010, 2:17 PM IST
Weather has nominated India winner in the global food and fibre sweepstakes this year. The combination of a bumper harvest here and shortages created by bad weather in Brazil, Russia, Europe, China and Pakistan has…
September 30, 2010, 2:17 PM IST
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Cotton Trade and Peepli Live
September 23, 2010, 12:24 PM IST
Two years ago India’s cotton farmers were committing suicide. This year clothing companies, textile mills and yarn spinners are willing to slash their wrists. What makes cotton so deadly? Cotton is the only Indian crop…
September 23, 2010, 12:24 PM IST
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Indian sugarcane and games of chance
September 7, 2010, 10:30 AM IST
How much sugar will India produce this year? Answering that should be a doddle for the country’s most controlled agri-business two weeks before the new season. Yet no one has a clue, making investors on…
September 7, 2010, 10:30 AM IST
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Sugarcane and games of chance
September 7, 2010, 5:43 AM IST
How much sugar will India produce this year? Answering that should be a doddle for the country’s most controlled agri-business two weeks before the new season.
September 7, 2010, 5:43 AM IST
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Sun rises in the East
August 24, 2010, 3:40 PM IST
They are loving it. Every time corporate India buys a coal mine overseas, farmers and fishermen from Orissa all the way down to Tamil Nadu jump with joy. India’s growing dependence on imported energy is…
August 24, 2010, 3:40 PM IST
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Weather becomes commodity rainmaker
July 27, 2010, 8:36 AM IST
Commodity markets are never for the faint-hearted. But each year between June and September, farm futures can be more hair-raising fun than a casino. All due to weather. In last four weeks, globally wheat is…
July 27, 2010, 8:36 AM IST
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Weather now a commodity rainmaker
July 27, 2010, 4:44 AM IST
Commodity markets are never for the faint-hearted. Each year between June and September, farm futures can be more hair-raising fun than a casino.
July 27, 2010, 4:44 AM IST
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Freight rates flash warning signs
July 22, 2010, 12:08 PM IST
Global shipping rates are heaving and tossing. In May, it cost $25 to send one tonne iron ore from Andhra Pradesh to China. Today it costs $12.50. Bringing a tonne of coal from Australia to…
July 22, 2010, 12:08 PM IST
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Five mega trends in metals and energy
July 15, 2010, 11:12 PM IST
Five major trends, each with its own counter-trend, have emerged in global metals and energy markets, confounding investors, traders and shareholders. They may be complicated and messy. But if you don’t see the pieces being…
July 15, 2010, 11:12 PM IST
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Hapless consumers in Nation of Shopkeepers
July 13, 2010, 10:45 AM IST
Indian shopkeepers are barefacedly, maliciously overcharging us simply because they can. No force – business or government – is there to stop them. And with most political parties in their pocket, they smugly believe they will never have to face the twin forces of competition and accountability. That is why India needs to stand up for its hapless 1.1 billion consumers, a third of whom are officially poor.
July 13, 2010, 10:45 AM IST
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Octopus Paul and Commodity Defaults
July 13, 2010, 10:45 AM IST
Indian mills, cola companies, food processors were the guys who bet prices would keep rising forever. They contracted to import in January-February but refused to accept shipments in July by when prices had crashed $100/tonne. These defaulters chose to save cash instead of reputation. But the ripples will reach us.
July 13, 2010, 10:45 AM IST
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Farmers will lose their shirts again
June 17, 2010, 12:48 PM IST
India has shut its open cotton economy in the name of “fibre security”. But while food security helps us all, fibre security would only protect the textile industry’s margins, with no obligation to pass on its savings to consumers.
June 17, 2010, 12:48 PM IST
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Farmers will again lose their shirts
June 17, 2010, 10:57 AM IST
India has shut its open cotton economy in the name of “fibre security”. But while food security helps us all, fibre security would only protect the textile industry’s margins, with no obligation to pass on its savings to consumers.
June 17, 2010, 10:57 AM IST
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What makes for a good shop?
June 15, 2010, 2:02 AM IST
The world’s biggest company has no factories and doesn’t manufacture a thing. US-headquartered Wal-Mart Inc is the largest global chain of shops selling the basic stuff of everyday life. More than 200 million customers visit…
June 15, 2010, 2:02 AM IST
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What makes for a good shop?
June 15, 2010, 1:49 AM IST
Understanding how we shop starts with a basic insight: we are bargain-hunters at heart. Rich or poor, we hate being ripped off.
June 15, 2010, 1:49 AM IST
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