Feature Stories

An analysis by Barclays Capital shows investors can boost returns by trading relative movements in the copper price and mining equities rather than investing directly in either asset class.

Any notions that China will increase its energy efficiency, meaningfully substitute oil and coal use with renewables, and reduce climate changing pollution, are fanciful, GaveKal concluded, following a seminar this month.

Once the forgotten metal, silver has staged a revival of late. And while gold is taking the limelight as far as bullish sentiment is concerned, some experts believe it is the silver price that really could be set to explode.

Debt will send Australia into a recession just as surely as it did Japan last decade, according to Dr Steve Keen. The RBA is looking the wrong way.

Obscurity to uranium major in three years? You have to be impressed by Paladin. And it would seem the company’s star is still on the ascendancy.

Factories in Sichuan. Call centres in Bangalore. The first world is getting richer but its workers are not. How long can this last?

FN Arena takes a look at the latest means by which Australian investors can directly or indirectly invest in gold.

Respected commentator Marc Faber explains why the commodity boom has just begun, why the US is becoming increasingly alienated, and why you should buy gold.

Due to reader response, FN Arena delves further into the groundswell of belief that there is a world-wide conspiracy to keep the gold price down. If the theory is right, gold should at least be over US$1,000/oz.

Foster’s is no longer going to bother advertising its beer on US television. Why? Australians, and Australian media companies, have been very slow to wake up (but not all of them).