Commodities

300.69
Change
+6.19
Open
295.36
High
301.13
Low
295.08
Times
08/03 21:59
Data as of 5:12pm BST (Delayed at least 20 minutes).
559.14
Change
+8.39
Open
551.25
High
560.02
Low
551.25
Times
08/03 21:59
Data as of 5:12pm BST (Delayed at least 20 minutes).
COMMODITY FUTURES
Energy:   Oil, Natural Gas, Electricity
 
 
Grains:   Corn/Maize, Wheat, Barley, Rice
 
Oilseeds:   Soybeans, Rapseed, Palm Oil
 
Softs:   Sugar, Coffee, Cocoa, Rubber, Citrus, Cotton
 
Livestock:   Lean Hogs, Live Cattle
Commodity Currency Last Change % Change Trade Date/Time
Crude Oil Light Sweet  Sep12 USD 91.36 +4.23 +4.63% 08/03 22:14
Oil, Heating New York No. 2 NYMEX  Sep12 USD 2.93 +0.09 +2.96% 08/03 22:14
Gas, Natural NYMEX  Sep12 USD 2.89 -0.03 -1.04% 08/03 22:14
Gold, 100 Troy Oz. COMEX  Oct12 USD 1,604.30 +15.70 +0.98% 08/03 21:55
Silver, 5000 Oz. COMEX  Sep12 USX 2,773.00 +73.50 +2.65% 08/03 21:59
Copper, High Grade COMEX  Sep12 USX 336.65 +7.60 +2.26% 08/03 22:00
Corn Pit CBOT  Dec12 USX 807.50 +11.75 +1.46% 08/03 22:08
Wheat Composite CBOT  Sep12 USD 891.25 +26.25 +2.95% 08/03 22:15
Soybean Pit CBOT  Nov12 USX 1,628.75 +12.25 +0.75% 08/03 22:09
Sugar World No.11 ICE FUT US  Oct12 USD 21.96 -0.08 -0.36% 08/03 18:59
Coffee C ICE FUT US  Sep12 USD 172.80 +1.15 +0.67% 08/03 18:59
Cocoa ICE FUT US  Sep12 USD 2,389.00 +20.00 +0.84% 08/03 18:59
Orange Juice (FCOJ-1) ICE FUT US  Sep12 USD 112.50 +3.25 +2.89% 08/03 18:58
Cotton No. 2 ICE FUT US  Dec12 USD 73.94 +2.97 +4.02% 08/03 19:41
Hogs, Lean Pit CME  Oct12 USD 75.85 -2.38 -3.13% 08/03 22:10
Cattle, Live Pit CME  Oct12 USD 124.38 -0.73 -0.58% 08/03 22:10
Data as of 5:12pm BST (Delayed at least 20 minutes).

Gold Market Report

PRECIOUS-Gold rises as stimulus hopes alive after payrolls

* Gold up as dollar tumbles, equities gain after US payrolls

PRECIOUS-Gold flat after 4-day drop; US jobs in focus

* Coming up: U.S. non-farm payrolls, July; 1230 GMT (Adds details, comments; updates prices)

PRECIOUS-Gold flat after 4-day drop; US jobs in focus

SINGAPORE, Aug 3 - Gold traded little changed on Friday, struggling to recover from a four-day losing streak after the European Central Bank stopped short of offering any immediate aid to contain the region's debt crisis, while caution prevailed ahead of a key U.S. jobs report.

PRECIOUS-Gold holds above $1,600/oz ahead of ECB announcement

* South Korea boosts gold reserves by 16 T (Updates throughout, changes dateline, pvs SINGAPORE)

PRECIOUS-Gold steady after drop on Fed inaction, eyes on ECB

* Coming up: ECB rate decision; 1145 GMT (Adds comments, prices; updates prices)

UPDATE 1-Hong Kong govt criticised over plastic spill on beaches

(Updates to add Hong Kong government's response throughout)

Hong Kong govt criticised over plastic spill on beaches

HONG KONG, Aug 4 - Hundreds of millions of potentially toxic plastic pellets from shipping containers knocked off a vessel during Hong Kong's worst typhoon in 13 years have washed up on its beaches where they lay for more than a week, activists say.

UPDATE 3-Petrobras posts first loss in 13 years; results shock

* None of the analysts in poll predicted shortfall (Recasts with market comment, exploration detail, additional results, stock price)

UPDATE 2-Petrobras posts first loss in 13 years; result shocks

* None of the analysts in poll predicted shortfall (New throughout; adds analyst comment, additional results, comment from CEO Foster throughout)

Petrobras says weaker real key reason for Q2 loss

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 3 - Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras said a weaker real was a key reason for its first quarterly loss in more than 13 years.

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FTSE 100 5,787.28 +124.98 +2.21%
DAX 6,865.66 +259.57 +3.93%
CAC 40 3,374.19 +141.73 +4.38%
TR Europe 123.27 +5.67 +4.82%
GBP/USD 1.5641 +0.82%
GBP/EUR 1.2623 -0.86%
EUR/USD 1.2386 +1.70%
Gold 1,604.30 +15.70 +0.98%
Oil 91.36 +4.23 +4.63%
Corn 807.50 +11.75 +1.46%

ANALYSIS-Small ships to unlock rate boon for bulk owners

Dry cargo shippers with smaller vessels are shifting to more-risk, more-reward spot markets, eyeing rising demand for sugar and grains -- commodities well suited to versatile supramax and handysize ships.

Think brussels sprouts and cauliflower are agricultural commodities? Think again.

While the financial bailouts tossed to automakers, banks and other groups during the recent economic crisis left a funny taste in the mouth of some Americans, one former U.S. regulator hopes efforts to prevent another panic doesn't go rotten.

Can export bans be challenged at the WTO?

As countries move to protect their food supplies, experts say the World Trade Organization is unlikely to have the authority to stop them banning grain exports

A case for market intervention?

02 Aug 2012

To treat financial markets or the economy as a whole as always behaving like a vengeful god whose mood and confidence can ebb and flow at the slightest provocation is not the way to make good policy - Oxford's Simon Wren-Lewis

Will Poland have an “ECB moment”?

01 Aug 2012

Poland's central bank may have an "ECB moment", forced to cut rates months after raising them. Markets are betting on 75 basis points in rate cuts over the next 12 months.

Running for gold? The long-distance investor

01 Aug 2012

With the London 2012 Olympics in full speed UK investors are going for the long-distance rather than try to follow in Usain Bolt's speed-lightning sprints, a poll by Barclays Stockbrokers showed.

Short Term Rates
Prime 3.25
Discount 1.25
Fed Funds 0.25
1 Month Libor 0.24
3 Month Libor 0.44
Date as of 08/04 17:12 (Delayed at least 20 minutes)