Commodities

FCI has procured 700,000 tonnes wheat so far, up from 200,000 tonnes last year

Capex cut, focus on profitability, healthy balance sheet should help overcome medium-term hurdles

The technical analyst recommends traders to employ a "sell on the rise" strategy when trading Nifty Commodities, given that its short-term pattern appears to be trading within a range of 5,600-5,400

Increased competition, lower spreads, moderate growth are among hurdles to overcome

Miner needs to be 'adequately compensated'; stakeholders being consulted before a decision

Spot gold was down 0.6 per cent at $1,976.60 per ounce, as of 6.48 pm India time, while U.S. gold futures rose 0.5 per cent to $1,983.20

While prices sustaining lower levels is crucial, Govt actions are also a key monitorable given the forthcoming elections in 2024

Brent crude fell $3.20, or 4.1 per cent, to $74.25 a barrel after touching $74.01 for its lowest since December 2021

Instability in prices of perishables must be addressed

Silver, on the other hand, declined by Rs 115 to Rs 62,095 per kilogram

India, the world's second largest sugar producing nation after Brazil, has a cushion to export an additional 1 million tonnes of the sweetener if the domestic output reaches an estimated 33.6 million tonnes this year, a senior food ministry official said on Monday. The government will take a call next month on allowing more quantities of sugar exports, after assessing domestic production, he said. Sugar availability is comfortable in the country and as a result wholesale and retail prices of the sweetener are on a decline in the last one month. The food ministry has allowed 6 million tonnes of sugar exports for the current 2022-23 marketing year (October-September). India exported a record 11 million tonnes of sugar in the previous year. "More exports are possible and we have a cushion for exports of additional one million tonnes, suppose the overall production reaches the estimated 33.6 million tonnes this year," the official said. Sugar production has already reached 24.7 milli

Wheat prices have slumped from their record high of about Rs 3,200 per quintal in mid-January to about Rs 2,200 a quintal

According to the technical analyst, the Nifty Consumption index is likely to witness a pullback, and the support range of 7,036 - 6,980 is likely to provide a base for a technical bounce

Onion prices will stay depressed till the arrival of the long shelf life rabi or winter crop in the markets in mid-March, experts said on Tuesday. There is a supply glut in the market which has led to events like farmers getting a pittance of their input costs for the produce and also angry farmers halting trading at Asia's biggest market place Lasalgaon in Maharashtra, on Monday, they said. Independent farm sector analyst Deepak Chavan told PTI that there are a variety of reasons for the current spate of troubles which has led to panic selling by farmers as the shelf life of the late kharif harvest is too small, and called for government intervention. Chavan said more farmers sowed the 'late kharif' variety rather than the kharif variety this year leading to an increase in acreage and estimated that productivity has gone up by up to 20 per cent leading to the current situation. Prolonged rains delayed sowing and many farmers opted for the 'late kharif' variety. They also saw a ..

According to the technical analyst, traders must adopt 'buy-on-dips' strategy for Nifty Energy, Nifty Commodities, and Nifty MidCap 50 indices

Prices jumped 140% till Jan; farmers expect a repeat as heat wave, shift to other crops may keep output down

Even in the October-December period, post-monsoon rainfall has been below par

According to the technical analyst, the best trading strategy for short-term and swing traders would be to buy the Nifty Energy index on dips, with the expectation of outperformance in the near future

A significant drop in per hectare yields of wheat for second year this year due to unusually high temperatures could have an impact on Centre's annual wheat procurement plan

According to the technical analyst, in the past four days, the Nifty Energy index appears to be encountering resistance at 22,650, and a violation of this level could signal the start of accumulation