Strong oil prices will create some good investment returns. “It’s going to be another good year,” says one energy fund manager
Investors to tap into emerging markets by investing in Canadian resource stocks
Most analysts are bullish about the demand for oil and its price over the medium term because of strong growth in emerging economies. Their views on base metals vary, depending on the product, but copper is a favourite
Soft assets or hard assets? Banks or base metals? This is sometimes the basic choice for Canadian investors — and it is part of a fundamental investment trade-off throughout known stock market history. We know the recent version of this story: banks and financial assets enjoyed a record boom in the 1980s and 1990s; since […]
But demand from emerging economies, the spectre of inflation and scarcity of supply suggest a brighter future
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One energy fund manager cites the growing demand from China and emerging markets
But several factors exist that may result in declines to the prices of key commodities
Emerging economies are driving demand, they say, and we could be in a period of sustained high prices