@ VituVingiSana

Yes, tea is a larger export earner than coffee. Kenya has been a dominant player in the tea sector. For a few years, tea producers were guilty of oversupply the global market resulting in diminished profits. On the other hand, the Kenyan coffee sector has been mired in dwindling profitability and declining production.

Fortuna, the Roman goddess which we derive the term "fortune", has been kind to the commodity sector with coffee lagging the performance of wheat and corn. The low in the sector has been marked by long suffering farmers cutting their coffee trees for horticulture etc.

Please review the long term chart below:

http://www.mrci.com/pdf/kc.pdf

A Greek Tragedy is unfolding. Debt ridden developed nations are finding increasingly difficult to raise funds in the international debt markets. Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain (PIGS) as well as the Eastern European bloc have elisited downward revisions on their debt status and raised concerns on their budgets going forward.

Increasing destabilisation of nation states will all the more lure investors into gold as a hedge.

"The ongoing global financial and economic crisis has, in our opinion, exacerbated an underlying loss of competitiveness in the Greek economy," said the credit-rating agency. The country was placed on negative watch just days ago.

The moves comes days after a €2.5bn (£2.2bn) debt sale by Greece that was entirely issued at short-term rates, much of it in three-month notes. Such an action is highly unusual for wealthy countries tapping the sovereign bond markets. It suggests that Athens fears that investors may be unwilling to purchase long-term bonds in the current climate....."

Read more:

http://www.telegraph.co....ades-sovereign-debt.html

Where art thou green shoots? Stunted they may seem with President Obama calling for an extension of the stimulus package into next year.

"Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Moody’s Investors Service said the top debt ratings on the U.S. and the U.K. may “test the Aaa boundaries” because public finances are worsening in the wake of the global financial crisis.

“The deterioration has been pretty severe,” said Pierre Cailleteau, managing director of sovereign risk at Moody’s, in a Bloomberg Television interview in London. “We expect a pretty strong policy response in the next couple of years in order to keep the debt in the Aaa range. We expect them to bend but not to break....”

Read more:

http://www.bloomberg.com...087&sid=ag5Azr1XuakI

Now that gold has paused for breath after a thundering run, a review of its long term fundamentals are in order. Please review the article below for that very purpose:

"The problem with paper money is that governments can create unlimited amounts. This is what they have done throughout history and especially in the last 100 years and which has led to the total destruction of most currencies. Most people don’t even understand that their government makes their money worthless. Money printing gives them the illusion of being richer whilst all they have are pieces of paper with more zeros on them. But there is one currency that governments can’t print which is gold. Gold has been real money for almost 5,000 years and it is the only currency that has survived throughout history. Gold can’t be printed and no government controls it. Therefore gold will, over time, always reveal governments’ fraudulent actions in creating money out of thin air. And this is what we are experiencing currently. Gold is not going up. Instead gold is doing what it has always done, namely maintaining its value and purchasing power...."

Read more:

http://matterhornassetma...er-money-is-going-down/

Uh oh! This can't be good.

"ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. David Paterson said Wednesday that New York has run out of cash and he's directing budget officials to reduce state aid payments to schools, local governments and nonprofit service providers until things improve.

Speaking at the Museum of American Finance in Manhattan, Paterson said he'll probably get sued, but he won't let the state run out of money on his watch.

"I am directing the Division of the Budget to limit payments so that we will have the cash to pay our debts at the end of December," Paterson said. "I will continue to withhold payments until this economy is leveled off."

"Now New York has run out of cash," he said. "You can't spend money that you don't have...."

Read more:

http://www.huffingtonpos...rk-has-run_n_386403.html