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Bloomberg Hedge Funds Make Wrong-Way Bets for a Fourth Week: Commodities By Joe Richter - Mar 25, 2012 9:21 PM Hedge funds wagered the wrong way on commodity prices for a fourth consecutive week, boosting bullish holdings just before reports showing a contraction in manufacturing from China to Europe drove prices lower.

Bloomberg China Soft Landing May Be Hard for Commodity Exporters By Bloomberg News - 2012.03.25 06:41 PM The good news: China’s government will engineer a soft landing. The bad news: Even a soft landing is painful for industries that have become dependent on the world’s fastest-growing major economy as their main profit engine.

Related News: Asia , China , Real Estate , Emerging Markets , Economy , Finance , Retail Chinese Mount Global Homebuying Spree as Governments Squeeze Local Markets By Kelvin Wong, Nichola Saminather and Hui-yong Yu - Jun 14, 2011 1:00 AM GMT+0900 On a sunny Saturday in early June, Larry Zhou strolled the floor of a property exhibition in Hong Kong, wondering whether it was time to buy another home -- not in the city, where residential prices have soared 50 percent in the past two years, but maybe in Thailand or Malaysia.

Related News: Canada · Commodities · Middle East · Australia · New Zealand Gold Rises Above $1,500 to Record on Weaker Dollar, Inflation By Pham-Duy Nguyen - Apr 21, 2011 3:53 AM GMT+0900 Gold futures rose to a record for the ninth time this month as a weakening dollar boosted investment demand for the precious metal as an alternative asset. Silver topped $45 an ounce for the first time since 1980.