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China Commodities Trade & Investment Summit 2012 will be held in Shanghai

08 june 2012

Emerging Industries Institute Shanghai will host China Commodities Trade & Investment Summit 2012 (CCTI), organized by IGVision International Corporation. The summit, considered to be China’s largest networking and information exchange platform for commodities industry, will be held on September 13-14 in Shanghai, China.
This summit is expected to gather more than 200 top professionals and senior executives across the value chain, including market administrators, policy makers, commodity producers, traders, financiers, consultants, academics and other experts, many of whom will speak and give presentations in both plenary and parallel sessions at the meeting.
This summit will highlight the supply & demand fundamentals and price trends of commodities, the macroeconomic environment and changing monetary policy, governing regulatory changes, China’s new commodity derivatives, investment portfolio and strategy, risk management and control at commodities market.
Over a two-day period, the speakers, moderators and participants of CCTI will discuss the key perennial issues of commodity economy, such as uncertain global economy, changing monetary policy, imperfect market surveillance, unstable commodity prices, complexity of investment strategies and increasingly important risk management.
The official website of the event is at http://www.igvision.com/commodities.

Dasha Platonova, Editor in Chief of the Asian Bureau, Rough&Polished