Agriculture
Is NTSD cotton contract on way out?
GOING by the mood among cotton trade associations and the current thinking in the Forward Markets Commission (FMC), it is likely that the non-transferable specific delivery (NTSD) cotton contract system may be disbanded before long.

Commodities
De Beers sees 30 pc jump in diamond demand in India
THE Indian market accounted for over 20 per cent of the total diamond sales of the world's largest diamond mining company, De Beers, in 1999, said Mr. Nicholas Graham Smith, Marketing Director, Consumer Marketing Division, De Beers, London.

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