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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Copper rebounds from six-week low on China optimism

China's economy is slowly picking up from its weakest period of growth in three years, a survey of purchasing managers signaled, with new orders and output at their highest in months.

Analysts said the figures from the world's second largest economy had pushed three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange 0.9 percent higher to $7,903 per tonne by 0708 GMT.

The contract touched $7,807.75 the day before, its lowest level since September 7 and below key support at its 200-day exponential moving average.

"London copper is buoyed by today's PMI numbers, but Shanghai copper was mainly held back from further gains by a still-sluggish Chinese copper physical market," said Orient Futures analyst Andy Du.

The most active January copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange edged up 0.4 percent to close at 57,500 yuan ($9,200) per tonne.

In a sign of weak downstream demand for Chinese copper, spot copper prices were trading at a discount of up to 200 yuan to the ShFE front month contract, a bigger spread than the previous session when that discount was only up to 100 yuan.

"Spot prices have been lower than front-month futures in China for some time now, a sign of weak downstream demand here and uncertainty over copper's outlook," said Du.

"For copper futures to stage a convincing rebound, we need to see Chinese consumption lifting."

For now, data suggests that the day's higher ShFE copper prices were largely due to short-covering as ShFE November copper's net daily open interest had fallen by 7,182 lots.

And despite signs pointing to China's economy stabilising, analysts warned the global economy was not out of the woods yet.

"Although there were some positive signals in the most recent data for China, the pace of growth has clearly slowed and uncertainties stemming from global demand and the fallout from previous policy tightening continue to cloud the outlook (for base metals)," National Australia Bank said in a client note.

Investors will be keeping an eye on the Fed's two-day meeting, which ends later in the session, although the U.S. central bank is likely to hold off from taking fresh steps, and will instead review the impact of the significant action it took last month.

Over the next few months, market players will also look out for new policies by Beijing that may affect metals demand, with a leadership change at the Communist Party Congress on November 8.

In industry news, China's copper imports jumped 6.93 percent on the year, largely due to the arrivals of term shipments booked last year rather than a spike in demand.

Base metals prices at 0708 GMT

Metal Last Change Pct Move YTD pct chg

LME Cu 7903.00 72.00 +0.92 3.99

SHFE CU FUT JAN3 57500 220 +0.38 3.36

LME Alum 1949.00 2.00 +0.10 -3.51

SHFE AL FUT JAN3 15420 30 +0.19 -2.65

HG COPPER DEC2 359.25 2.30 +0.64 4.55

LME Zinc 1866.00 19.00 +1.03 1.14

SHFE ZN FUT JAN3 14880 95 +0.64 0.57

LME Nickel 16375.00 20.00 +0.12 -12.48

LME Lead 2035.00 12.00 +0.59 0.00

SHFE PB FUT 15330 25 +0.16 0.26

LME Tin 20400.00 145.00 +0.72 6.25

LME/Shanghai arb 281

Shanghai and COMEX contracts show most active months

^ LME 3-m copper in yuan, including 17 pct VAT, minus SHFE third month

($1 = 6.2480 Chinese yuan)

(Reporting by Carrie Ho; Editing by Joseph Radford and Miral Fahmy)

Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/copper-rebounds-six-week-low-china-optimism-852846

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

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The Most Spectacular Mutation in Recent Human History

Globally, lactose intolerance is the norm; around two-thirds of humans cannot drink milk in adulthood

Photograph by Valentyn Volkov/iStockphoto/Thinkstock.

To repurpose a handy metaphor, let's call two of the first Homo sapiens Adam and Eve. By the time they welcomed their firstborn, that rascal Cain, into the world, 2 million centuries of evolution had established how his infancy would play out. For the first few years of his life, he would take his nourishment from Eve's breast. Once he reached about 4 or 5 years old, his body would begin to slow its production of lactase, the enzyme that allows mammals to digest the lactose in milk. Thereafter, nursing or drinking another animal's milk would have given the little hell-raiser stomach cramps and potentially life-threatening diarrhea; in the absence of lactase, lactose simply rots in the guts. With Cain weaned, Abel could claim more of his mother's attention and all of her milk. This kept a lid on sibling rivalry?though it didn't quell the animus between these particular sibs?while allowing women to bear more young. The pattern was the same for all mammals: At the end of infancy, we became lactose-intolerant for life.

Two hundred thousand years later, around 10,000 B.C., this began to change. A genetic mutation appeared, somewhere near modern-day Turkey, that jammed the lactase-production gene permanently in the ?on? position. The original mutant was probably a male who passed the gene on to his children. People carrying the mutation could drink milk their entire lives. Genomic analyses have shown that within a few thousand years, at a rate that evolutionary biologists had thought impossibly rapid, this mutation spread throughout Eurasia, to Great Britain, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean, India and all points in between, stopping only at the Himalayas. Independently, other mutations for lactose tolerance arose in Africa and the Middle East, though not in the Americas, Australia, or the Far East.

In an evolutionary eye-blink, 80 percent of Europeans became milk-drinkers; in some populations, the proportion is close to 100 percent. (Though globally, lactose intolerance is the norm; around two-thirds of humans cannot drink milk in adulthood.) The speed of this transformation is one of the weirder mysteries in the story of human evolution, more so because it's not clear why anybody needed the mutation to begin with. Through their cleverness, our lactose-intolerant forebears had already found a way to consume dairy without getting sick, irrespective of genetics.

Mark Thomas, an evolutionary geneticist at University College London, points out that in modern-day Turkey, where the mutation seems to have arisen, the warm climate causes fresh milk to rapidly change its composition. ?If you milk a cow in the morning,? he says, ?by lunchtime it's yogurt.?

Yogurt has plenty of benefits to confer, among them large testicles, swagger, and glossy fur?at least if you're a mouse?but most salient to our ancestors was that the fermentation process that transforms milk into yogurt consumes lactose, which is a sugar. This is why many lactose-intolerant people can eat yogurt without difficulty. As milk ascends what Thomas calls the ?fermentation ladder,? which begins with yogurt and culminates with virtually lactose-free hard cheeses, ever more lactose is fermented out. ?If you're at a party and someone says, 'Oh, I can't eat that?I'm lactose intolerant,' ? he says, ?you can tell them to shut up and eat the Parmigiano.?

Analysis of potsherds from Eurasia and parts of Africa have shown that humans were fermenting the lactose out of dairy for thousands of years before lactose tolerance was widespread. Here is the heart of the mystery: If we could consume dairy by simply letting it sit around for a few hours or days, it doesn't appear to make much sense for evolution to have propagated the lactose-tolerance mutation at all, much less as vigorously as it did. Culture had already found a way around our biology. Various ideas are being kicked around to explain why natural selection promoted milk-drinking, but evolutionary biologists are still puzzled.

?I've probably worked more on the evolution of lactose tolerance than anyone in the world,? says Thomas. ?I can give you a bunch of informed and sensible suggestions about why it's such an advantage, but we just don't know. It's a ridiculously high selection differential, just insane, for the last several thousand years.?

A ?high selection differential? is something of a Darwinian euphemism. It means that those who couldn't drink milk were apt to die before they could reproduce. At best they were having fewer, sicklier children. That kind of life-or-death selection differential seems necessary to explain the speed with which the mutation swept across Eurasia and spread even faster in Africa. The unfit must have been taking their lactose-intolerant genomes to the grave.

Milk, by itself, somehow saved lives. This is odd, because milk is just food, just one source of nutrients and calories among many others. It's not medicine. But there was a time in human history when our diet and environment conspired to create conditions that mimicked those of a disease epidemic. Milk, in such circumstances, may well have performed the function of a life-saving drug.

There are no written records from the period when humans invented agriculture, but if there were, they would tell a tale of woe. Agriculture, in Jared Diamond's phrase, was the ?worst mistake in human history.? The previous system of nourishment?hunting and gathering?had all but guaranteed a healthy diet, as it was defined by variety. But it made us a rootless species of nomads. Agriculture offered stability. It also transformed nature into a machine for cranking out human beings, though there was a cost. Once humans began to rely on the few crops that we knew how to grow reliably, our collective health collapsed. The remains of the first Neolithic farmers show clear signs of dramatic tooth decay, anemia, and low bone-density. Average height dropped by about 5 inches, while infant mortality rose. Diseases of deficiency like scurvy, rickets, beriberi, and pellagra were serious problems that would have been totally perplexing. We are still reeling from the change: Heart disease, diabetes, alcoholism, celiac disease, and perhaps even acne are direct results of the switch to agriculture.

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=d2b430203d107e3133f916a44c7130ae

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The new Coke Zero "Skyfall" video is yet another textbook case of how to create a successful viral ad.

It's a simple idea, followed by an incredibly complicated execution: How do ordinary people react if they're suddenly forced into a James Bond-style foot chase through a crowded European railway station?

The spot was created by viral masters Duval Guillaume Modem, best-known for their Belgian TNT effort earlier this year, which featured unsuspecting villagers who find themselves in the middle of gunfights, runaway ambulances, and lingerie-wearing women on motorcycles.

Following a similar formula for Coke, Duval Guillaume Modem set up digital vending machines in an Antwerp train station to offer travelers free tickets to the launch of "Skyfall."

There's just one catch: the free tickets are on platform 6, and the punters are given only 70 seconds to get there.

As they race across the station, the befuddled commuters find themselves confronted with just the sort of nonsense that crops up in the movies ? two guys carrying a plate glass window at just the wrong moment, a fruit vendor spilling an avalanche of oranges, and so on.

It turns out that the guys who take up the challenge handle the assignment with a fair amount of grace:

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/this-coke-ad-in-which-ordinary-folks-are-suddenly-forced-into-a-007-foot-chase-is-utterly-charming-2012-10

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Lebanese troops crackdown on militants after attack

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Think that's likely to come up tonight the rapidly deteriorating situation in Lebanon.

Troops in the capital Beirut launching a major crackdown after Friday's assassination of -- top intelligence official.

-- support violence in the streets of that city and beyond.

To -- Lebanese military officials chased away gunmen blaming the sectarian fighting for killing at least six people.

It follows Friday's huge bomb blast which killed a senior official -- been the critical of the Syrian regime's involvement in Lebanon.

We now have surveillance video which captured that -- and you can see people at the outdoor cafe.

When the powerful explosion sent shards of glass raining on the people's kids.

It also killed seven others and wounded dozens more some of them children who were just leaving school may have been -- for that.

-- on shares a border with Syria as I'm sure you know a nation that's been locked in a horrible city civil war for a year and a half or more.

Activist groups estimate more than 30000.

People have died in the last year and a half.

And now there are real concerns among foreign policy analysts that the violence -- just Billy across the border but it it could that it could ignite the conflict all across the region.

The Fox Report chief correspondent Jonathan shout and reported in that region often.

Including across Lebanon and specifically Beirut Jonathan authorities there are clearly trying to keep a lid on this.

Yeah I'm struggling might lead to do that -- we saw -- violent street protests.

Not just in Beirut today but in other cities as well including the northern city.

All of Tripoli the army then moved into this into the streets of Beirut and Tripoli.

And they did -- today get some measure of control but tensions remain at very high indeed amid suspicions.

The back -- bombing on Friday was carried out by Syrian agents with the sole purpose.

Silencing their critics in Lebanon listen.

There's a natural tendency for the Syrians to want to continue to exert control over that country it's and then of course you've got the players of Hezbollah Hamas.

All of those are in play in this particular case and did -- becomes it has since.

The -- proxy war that could take place if we're not careful.

And nobody wants that proxy wall hence the -- from US State Department officials today full all sides in Lebanon to exercise restraint.

Ted trying to achieve calm -- History tells us that may be difficult -- it's never been hard to stroke tensions in Lebanon.

It never has and you look at what the Arab Spring has turned out to be a -- across the region.

Much less about -- a much more a battle for control in so many of those countries between Shia.

And Sunni Muslims and take a look at the split in Lebanon.

27%.

-- 27%.

-- there is also a very large Christian population the majority of whom.

A maronite Christians in old -- seventeen.

Different religious -- recognized.

In Lebanon most of them have political wings the most powerful of those political wings is Hezbollah.

They stand to benefit the most from chaos in Lebanon they have calls strong allies not just a president a sad but also of the Ronnie and regime ship.

Jonathan thanks so much will have much more on tonight's debate live from South Florida.

Source: http://video.foxnews.com/v/1918330881001/lebanese-troops-crackdown-on-militants-after-attack/

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Business Negotiations: Cooperate to Claim Value

What happens in negotiations between two individuals who care little about each other?s outcomes?

Suppose an engineer and an industrial designer are arguing over the design of a car bumper. The designer only cares about whether the bumper matches the style of the vehicle; the engineer is concerned only about how the bumper connects to the front. After describing the trouble he?s having with the existing design, the engineer presents a solution that the designer deems ?ugly.? The designer threatens to involve her boss if the engineer doesn?t revert back to the prior design.

You?re the engineer ? what do you do?

First, balance your value-claiming strategies by working to create value. Ask the designer to explain where she thinks the new design went wrong, and identify possible solutions and low-priority issues on which you can offer tradeoffs. Second, remind her that there?s hope for a solution if you both let down your guard and work together. Third, listen openly to ?the designer?s proposals and try to build on them. Above all, ensure that your cooperative moves are reciprocated, or you?ll be vulnerable to exploitation.

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