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Who wouldn’t settle a dispute if it stood in the way of making the most of soaring markets. Certainly, it seems, not shipbroker Clakson. It has just bitten a £27million bullet, after months of holding out, to settle litigation
Full story...Money is chasing growing investment opportunities in agriculture, with a US$65 million Saudi Arabian consortium the latest, the plan being to develop rice fields in Indonesia. A group of 15 investors is expected to develop around
Full story...Radicle seems to have found that it is all too correctly named! In these nervy, impatient markets there is no quarter given to embryo businesses – cash flow is the name of the game. So this little £10.5million market cap
Full story...For much of Australia’s history after the first fleet dropped anchor in 1788 the farming community was served by two great “pastoral” houses, Elders and Dalgety. Now, after two decades of fiddling with corporate structures, name
Full story...The Russo-Finnish timber dispute looks about to ignite! Tempers on the Finnish side are getting very hot indeed. Major Finnish companies are getting into real trouble – paper groups Stora Enso and UPM-Kymmene have seen their
Full story...The flow of new companies to Aim may have flowed to a trickle, but it is at least a trickle, not a drought. But Canada has led the charge into phosphates on the back of an ever-rising price, just as it has with coal and Australia
Full story...Water is being kept in Asia’s headlines by China’s continuing shortage and pollution crisis. Singapore's prime minister said last week that water security may be a source of conflicts, launching an institute to research Asia's
Full story...Shares doubled over the last year, latest quarterly profits up by 42 per cent – this company is in clover! In fact it is not too far off that, being one of the world’s largest agricultural operations. This is Monsanto, at a
Full story...Athens does not seem to be having a lot of success at the moment keeping good IPOs at home, in spite of the launch of its version of AIM. Latest Greek company to announce a London flotation is the country’s largest food group,
Full story...Agriculture in this country was at its most basic during the second World War. Although labourers were excused military service, many of them went off to join their mates and the gap was filled by Land Army girls and anyone else
Full story...Fear of soaring food prices is turning politicians against commodity markets not just in the US but also in Asia. Product innovation in food commodity futures has become impossible, according to India’s Multi Commodity of India
Full story...Harbinger of a maturing bull market, or an indication of a new boom to come? Newsflow from Central Asia is not always among the best, but the word is that a new industry is growing there rapidly. This time it’s fertilisers. There
Full story...India’s spices exports, which hit the US$1 billion mark in the 2007-08 agricultural season, should touch US$10 billion by 2017, according to Mr Jairam Ramesh, a junior minister for commerce in the Indian government.
Full story...High food prices and fuel prices have replaced the credit squeeze as the leading threats to the world economy, according to the communiqué from the Group of Eight finance ministers at the weekend. The predominant fear is the
Full story...Opportune or opportunistic? That is the question about Equatorial Palm. This is the latest addition to the very limited offering in London of quoted companies with exposure to the booming agriculture markets. Over the last couple
Full story...Have you ever wondered what happens to the share price of a newly minted Canadian junior exploration company that is focussed on the commodity of the day and has the backing of mining entrepreneurs Robert Friedland and Lukas
Full story...The leading tea producing countries, India and China, are jointly of the view that tea producing countries should not increase the existing total area under tea cultivation. This was decided at the recently held Tea meeting in
Full story...The much criticised mega-investment and index funds sent most soft commodity markets soaring again last week. They bailed out of the dollar and into commodities as the oil price hit a record of more than US$139/barrel and the US
Full story...Palm oil producers must be among the London Stock Market’s most reluctant stars. Results from all members of the UK quoted palm plantation sector have been announced recently – New Britain, Anglo-Eastern Plantations, REA Holdings
Full story...These are testing times for America’s vast futures markets. How can their regulator deal with accusations these markets are contributing to soaring world food prices? Or at least, how will it handle the vexed question of how much
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