Commodity stockpiles may be reduced or disbanded.
Chinese commodity stockpiling and infrastructure spending, despite slowing from the recent highs, will benefit countries like Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam and India.
Gold, copper and oil all gained on Wednesday despite lingering fears from analysts that commodity stockpiling by China could be at an end.
The Chinese strategy has been to build up commodity stockpiles, buy natural resource producing companies, accumulate precious metals, and push for bonds that are denominated in a basket of currencies.
Actually, it is more than three times larger; if we calculate "military-related" spending for the US, I come to a total -- including additional spending for the wars, nuclear weapons, defense commodity stockpiles, homeland security, veterans' care, military and economic aid and some other military related accounts -- over $800 billion.
December meant tomatoes, and Almon asked the kitchen managers to order salsa, not realizing it was already part of the commodities stockpile.
China will probably not corner, say, the aluminum market, but analysts say the country's experiment in commodities stockpiling is likely to end badly in one of two ways.
In two words: commodities stockpiling.
Determining the percentage of each commodity being stockpiled is difficult, especially in China, where scant data are released.
The businessmen were allegedly members of a triad crime syndicate, the would-be client was an informant for the DEA, and their lucrative commodity was a massive stockpile of ultra-pure North Korean methamphetamine stashed somewhere in the Philippines.
STRATFOR has obtained anecdotal evidence about companies in China importing larger volumes of key commodities in order to stockpile them for speculative reasons.
