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
Half of firms actively pursuing new properties, acquistions: report
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
Credit crunch hitting exploration-stage companies the hardest
But the future is brightened by strong demand fuelled by industrialization in emerging markets