Friday, June 27, 2008

Commodities Scoreboard for the Year

Posted by Jim Sinclair at www.JSMineSet.com. - Allan




Anyone else think that gold is long overdue for an upward correction?

Score Board -- percentage change for the year, so far, in various items:

  • Crude oil up 42.5%
  • Ethanol up 20.7%
  • Heating oil up 43.9%
  • Natural gas up 76.5%
  • Unleaded gas up 39.5%
  • Cattle up 1.0%
  • Corn up 58.8%
  • Soy beans up; 26.4%
  • Coffee up 5.9%
  • Aluminum up 32.7%
  • Copper up 25.7%
  • Platinum up 33.4%
  • Gold up 6.0%
  • Silver up 13.4%.
  • S&P 500 down 10.24%
  • Frankfurt DAX down 18.32%
  • London FTSE down 12.23%
  • Paris CAC down 19.64%
  • Hong Kong Hang Sang down 18.33%.
  • Tokyo Nikkei down 9.47%
  • Singapore Straits down 14.04%.
  • Seoul Composite down 9.57%
  • Sydney All Ordinary down 15.76%
  • Taipei Telex down 7.40%

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