Cooking gas prices set to go the diesel way
The 40% hike in the ex-storage point selling rate of diesel last week was not the last word on petroleum product prices. It lent weight to speculations that subsidised petroleum products would turn dearer.

ICE gets nod for Nov-Jan futures
The IPSTA-run International Commodity Exchange, (ICE), which has been languishing in wildernesses for the past two years, had finally come out of woods with the Forward Markets' Commission (FMC) permitting it to open the futures contracts for the months of November, December and January.

Recovery in flat steel market all-round, but slow
The sustainability of the global steel price recovery since the second quarter of this year remained uncertain because of two major factors. One, for flat products, the buoyancy was uneven and unbalanced.


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  Truck rates likely to weaken
  Monsoons may come to an end this week
  PVC supplies, prices to remain firm after plant shutdown in Japan
  Polyester fibre exports show declining trends
  Cotton export realisations likely to slow down
  Cotton yarn exports poised to touch all-time high
  Wool firms to meet demand on price risk
  Crude oil futures slump over doubts of Opec's adherence to production cuts
  Cotton fabric exports may fall short of target
  Floriculture remains a lucrative export venture for Israelis
  Board moots way to stabilise coconut oil price
  New govt likely to pursue doubling food output plan
  Domestic sugar sector hit by bulky opening stock of 65 lakh tonnes
  Budge Budge resumes work after week-long strike
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  China's 1999 grain acreage comes down
  Chinese demand seen underpinning canola market
  Kochi pepper up on tight supply
  Good rains reduce Australian drought
  Kenyan team in Coonoor to study new tea-farm ways
  Delay in dumping duty on phenol hits HOC's Kochi unit
  Mills association flays diesel price hike
  WB project succeeds in reversing degraded farm land
  Russia allows more refineries to export fuel oil
  `Quality is the cornerstone of Kenyan tea'
  Tea auctions fail to cheer up on shortage of supplies
  Kerala, TN cardamom prices dip on negligible upcountry support
  Bright prospects for mustard, gram in Rajasthan
  EU energy firms pump 8millions into technology
  Weekly Coonoor tea sales rise sharply
  Sunny weather in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu to benefit salt production this fiscal
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  Ivorian August cocoa product exports down
  Festivals spark off gold price war in Chennai, customers to benefit
  Gold depends on silver for permanence
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