Counting the Cost - The giants of commodity trading

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From Switzerland to the world - they are the giants of commodity trading, but can they shake off the tag of 'modern day slave masters'? This week on Counting the Cost we examine the commodities industry - the very essentials, the raw materials and resources that we simply cannot live without. These are traded all over the globe - everything from oil to copper, sugar to precious minerals. A country normally associated with great lakes, political neutrality and the Red Cross can now be associated with the global commodities industry as Switzerland is home to some of the biggest commodities companies in the world. But why has that one region out surpassed the others in the commodities business? And is it possible to regulate the globalised, multi-billion dollar companies which operate within it?
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  • @elictroabdou365
    @elictroabdou3659 жыл бұрын

    I find this tape is very positive and a group of valuable information

  • @GainfromtradingBlogspot
    @GainfromtradingBlogspot7 жыл бұрын

    I agree with Thomas

  • @freesk8
    @freesk811 жыл бұрын

    And yet, the more costs the regulatory regime imposes on the big corps, the fewer projects will be started. All of the marginal projects will sit idle until economic conditions improve. The more such projects are stalled due to regulation, the worse the unemployment will be. And this will hurt unskilled labor the most. There is a balance, of course. Regulations are needed to prevent pollution and corporate fraud, etc. But we can not deny that govt regs can hurt the poor if overdone.

  • @patbutler6723

    @patbutler6723

    5 ай бұрын

    You also can not deny these corporations could care less about people. You did not even mention people when talking how much regs hurt companies. I suggest company ceo's have to spend time in the field.

  • @freesk8

    @freesk8

    5 ай бұрын

    @@patbutler6723 Companies make money if they satisfy customers, and often these customers are regular people. And companies with happier employees tend to do a better job satisfying customers. The better companies and CEO's know this. The worse ones tend not to be in business very long. Of course they care nothing about people. They only care about making money. This is their sole function. But you can't make money without pleasing customers and employees. This is all basic Adam Smith.

  • @aryobarzan9547
    @aryobarzan954711 жыл бұрын

    Increased 15 folds ! wow !

  • @MartinChowdhury
    @MartinChowdhury5 ай бұрын

    Who number one online trade platform

  • @amorosogombe9650
    @amorosogombe96509 ай бұрын

    This is so so so true!

  • @elbertmkizy7086
    @elbertmkizy70863 жыл бұрын

    Other reasons a.k.a deep pocketed banks. Trading is capital intensive and Swiss banks are loaded.

  • @cardosamelissa2897
    @cardosamelissa28974 жыл бұрын

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  • @Jz2223

    @Jz2223

    9 ай бұрын

    What books would you recommend to an amateur who is trying to learn a reliable trading strategy?

  • @themise1416
    @themise14167 жыл бұрын

    Martin Fasser's responses very disturbing. This program was in 2012. hopefully today, he would say the traders, commodity extractors need to take more responsiblity.

  • @bighoss8793
    @bighoss87935 жыл бұрын

    Very shiny head.

  • @louismark9009

    @louismark9009

    3 жыл бұрын

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  • @elbertmkizy7086
    @elbertmkizy70863 жыл бұрын

    I bet the guy in Switzerland is feeling lucky he came into this world on Swiss soil. 🤣

  • @patbutler6723

    @patbutler6723

    5 ай бұрын

    I often say the same thing about me and other Americans. I am glad I was fortunate to be born here. Not earned just luck.

  • @mmnp43
    @mmnp4311 жыл бұрын

    these companies make 100+ billion a year and can't pay for proper safety gear.

  • @fromthefuture7172

    @fromthefuture7172

    4 жыл бұрын

    They outsource the actual mining on the ground to local 3rd party mining companies/militias and those guys would just pocket the money meant for safety gear so it's a wasted expense.

  • @chillbro2275

    @chillbro2275

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@fromthefuture7172 I have seen in tunneling projects a system that pipes in oxygen, and it probably has an exhaust. No doubt that is expensive, but if installed by the traders, the safety could be greatly boosted with (and I state this naively and without understanding how these projects bootstrap) less stealing from the contractor in the region of mining.

  • @chillbro2275
    @chillbro22752 жыл бұрын

    Oh man my stomach turned a bit.

  • @metaparcel
    @metaparcel8 жыл бұрын

    glencore go boom boom soon :D

  • @stevenponte6655
    @stevenponte66552 жыл бұрын

    lol how do you quantify the risk of the traders? What risk do the miners take? Nothing. Oh except they might lose their lives. Other than that. NOTHING!!!

  • @rishabhsharma4097
    @rishabhsharma40975 жыл бұрын

    I think those workers in BOLIVIA can buy masks for themselves, it does"t cost them an arm and a lung.

  • @theadrix92

    @theadrix92

    5 жыл бұрын

    at your workplace, did you buy your own computer and internet?

  • @sweetpotato172

    @sweetpotato172

    3 жыл бұрын

    Spoken like a true puppet

  • @chillbro2275

    @chillbro2275

    2 жыл бұрын

    It’s likely a choice of spending money on safety or on family needs. I imagine they don’t earn enough money for both.

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