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Post by zuolun on Mar 13, 2015 13:16:48 GMT 7
Chinese hedge funds are shorting Copper and Gold ~ 13 Mar 2015 铜价大跌 触及历史低位 ~ “中国基金大量沽空至少在一定程度上造成了铜价的急剧下跌。”~ 13 Mar 2015 China’s massive holdings of gold bullion ~ Now for the big question, “how could the price have been dropping if China was such a big buyer?”...Could they have even been part of the paper shorts to depress the price? ~ 3 Nov 2014
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Post by zuolun on Mar 23, 2015 7:52:27 GMT 7
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Post by zuolun on May 1, 2015 20:24:03 GMT 7
The end of the commodity boom: What’s next for Latin America? ~ 17 Mar 2015
The end of the commodity boom and a rising dollar have re-shaped Latin America’s economic outlook. What will the region do to reignite growth? What opportunities can investors find? Watch seven investment and political leaders at the Latin America Investment Conference discuss Latin America’s growth prospects.
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Post by zuolun on May 25, 2015 5:56:56 GMT 7
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Post by zuolun on Sept 21, 2015 11:29:03 GMT 7
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Post by hope on Sept 21, 2015 12:33:14 GMT 7
Bro Zuolun Just reading the above dated feb 2014, so Jim Roger is wrong after all as commodites prices collapsed recently. Do you feel so?
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Post by roberto on Sept 21, 2015 13:14:49 GMT 7
He's being saying that for years. Who knows what his time frame is, 20 years, or is there even one?
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Post by roberto on Sept 21, 2015 13:19:57 GMT 7
He's being saying that for years. Who knows what his time frame is, 20 years, or is there even one? He did say in the first video, towards the end, something like 10-20-30 years. Ha...
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Post by odie on Sept 24, 2015 6:03:58 GMT 7
Glencore launches $2.5bn fundraiser in drive to shore up finances
Commodity trader has slumped to a record low, prompting share placing that will see chief executive put up as much as $210m of his own cash
Simon Goodley
Tuesday 15 September 2015 19.22 BST Last modified on Wednesday 16 September 2015 00.02 BST The embattled commodity trader Glencore launched its $2.5bn (£1.6bn) fundraising effort on Tuesday night, in a move aimed at shoring up its strained finances as swiftly as possible.
The share placing, part of a $10.2bn programme of fundraising and cuts announced last week, came in a week when Glencore’s struggling shares hit new lows. It will see the company’s billionaire chief executive, Ivan Glasenberg, putting up as much as $210m of his own cash.
The sale of new shares was forced on the company by investors worried that the group’s debts are too high in a world of slumping commodity prices, as previously booming demand from China has slowed.
Glencore said its bankers would attempt to place just over 1.3bn new shares to new and existing shareholders in an accelerated sales process that is expected to close no later than 7pm BST on Wednesday. The new shares represent just under 10% of the company. Glencore first-half profit tumbles amid commodities rout Read more
Last week Glencore succumbed to shareholder pressure by announcing it would raise up to $2.5bn by selling new shares – only weeks after the company’s management insisted they were comfortable with the group’s financial position. Glasenberg and his senior management immediately committed to buying 22% of them, worth around $550m.
However, City investors will be anxious for news on how successful Glencore’s bankers have been in selling the remaining 78%. If they succeed in selling all the new stock – and raising $2.5bn – the fundraising will have secured the cash at only a small discount to the closing share price on Tuesday evening of 3%. However, raising $2bn from selling the same amount of new equity would equate to a discount of about 22%.
The trading group did not comment further on the announcement, or give any detail on which existing shareholders would be purchasing new shares. However, aides insisted privately that a share placement was always the company’s preferred method of raising the funds – rather than a rights issue, which would have involved all existing shareholders being given the chance to invest. The second option would have taken too long, one aide said, before adding that major investors had been supportive of Glencore’s plan. Advertisement
The company’s shares have more than halved this year and closed on Tuesday evening at 128.05p each. The company floated in 2011 at 530p a share, but they have never reached that level since.
Glasenberg and his four closest lieutenants, who all became paper billionaires in the group’s 2011 flotation – Daniel Maté, Telis Mistakidis, Tor Peterson and Alex Beard – own around 20% of the company. To maintain that stake, the five men now have to find around half a billion dollars in cash.
However, by the time he is paid his latest dividend cheque later this month, the total dividends received by Glasenberg since the company floated will have exceeded $780m.
The group, which trades and produces a range of commodities including copper, iron ore, oil, wheat and sugar, also announced last week that it will be selling some assets and has suspended production at copper mines in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It has also axed the full-year dividend payout to shareholders, and next year’s interim dividend. The series of measures will find the company an extra $10.2bn, which will be used to cut debts “to the low 20 billions of dollars by the end of 2016”.
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