High gold prices, a lack of participant interest, and inadequate liquidity, according to traders, have made trading on Indian International Bullion Exchange (IIBX), the country’s first international bullion platform, lackluster. Beginning in July, IIBX is operating out of the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) building in Gandhinagar’s Gujarat International Finance Technology City (GIFT City). Given…
The cotton crop in India for 2022–2023 is expected to be 4.25 lakh bales (each weighing 170 kg) lower than the previous year, when 307.05 lakh bales were produced, due to forecast declines in production in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Haryana. The CAI predicted a decrease in cotton production for November in Punjab (0.75 lakh…
As prices fluctuate during the current harvest, struggling coffee growers believe that now is the ideal time for the Center to strengthen the only multi-state co-operative Coffee Marketing Co-operative Ltd (COMARK) by providing financial support to the growers’ organization to engage in market intervention activities. Farm gate coffee prices have decreased by approximately a fifth…
Due to a declining dollar and expectations of increased demand in China as a result of the government’s projected economic stimulus, copper prices increased on Monday. The central bank is anticipated to loosen monetary policy soon after the Chinese government announced that it would intensify efforts to stabilize the country’s economy. However, for the time…
When compared to the same period in the previous financial year, the total export of oil meals grew by 50% to 23.92 lakh tonnes (lt) between April and November 202223 from 15.96 lt. The export of oil meals increased by 150 percent from 1.63 lt in November 2021 to 4.07 lt in November 2022, according…
As optimism from China’s reopening and a resurgence in oil demand overshadowed worries of a global recession, oil prices recovered ground on Monday after dropping more than $2 per barrel in the previous session. While U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $74.89 a barrel, up 60 cents or 0.8%, Brent crude futures increased 72…
On Monday, gold prices barely changed as markets processed a barrage of hawkish central bank signals and rising recession concerns, but copper prices recovered some of their recent losses thanks to expectations of a Chinese economic recovery. The Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank both warned that interest rates are likely to rise higher,…
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch has been urged by the Commodity Participants Association of India (CPAI) to request that MCX swiftly disclose the new cotton futures contract specification. The present contract will expire on December 30, according to CPAI President Nariender Wadhwa, who noted that MCX informed on…
The government on Thursday reduced the windfall tax on exports of domestically produced crude oil and diesel due to the decline in the price of oil globally. The windfall tax on locally produced crude oil has been reduced by Rs 1,700 per tonne from Rs 4,900 per tonne, according to a notice from the finance…
The first month of the oil year 2022–2023 saw an increase in imports of 34.24 percent (November to October). Data from India’s Solvent Extractors’ Association show that edible oil imports rose to 15.28 lt in November 2022–23 from 11.38 lakh tonnes (lt) in November 2021–22. (SEA). India imported 9.31 lt of CPO in November, up…
