Thursday, June 2, 2011

News: Rice, Mining Services and Asian Soft Landing

A collection of articles today, from quite a diverse range.

1. Local Australian rice growing collective decides to spurn a takeover by Spanish agricultural giant. Food is one of the sectors which will be in greater demand in the future, due to a global shortage of food. It is interesting to see stories like these and perhaps more in the future. In terms of investment, it is worthwhile to spot a good agricultural listed business because this sector will feature more in the future.
Adios amigos as SunRice snubs Spanish food giant Ebro's bid


2. Over recent months, there are more doom and gloom predictions. This article attempts to show using various economic data that some Asian economies are slowing down, but not necessarily the big fall many shorters are hoping for.
Asian slowdown to be a 'soft landing'


3. Australia is a resource country and the demand in commodities globally had produced a mining boom. However, investing in big miners may show mediocre growth. Investing in junior explorer may have explosive growth but extremely high risk. This article presents a group of companies with high growth potential due to their exposure to the mining industry, yet without the risk of explorers. These companies are the mining services companies such as: Zicom, Matrix Composite and Engineering, Monadelphous Group, Fleetwood Group, Campbell Brothers, Clean TeQ Holdings, Imdex, VDM group.
Mining services a ticket to commodities boom