Monday morning links

TOP STORIES U.S. Losses on Fannie, Freddie May Be $300 Billion, Poole Says - Bloomberg Fannie, ... in futures - Commodity Online Asian stocks soar after Freddie, Fannie bailouts - AP INTERESTING Cruise ... as Hurricane Nears, Dollar Eases - Bloomberg Coming Soon: Mother of all Market Crashes - Commodity Online [more...]

Date: 2008-09-08 12:27:34

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The Economy - Nowhere To Go But Up

As we slowly shed the rotting skin of a dismal year a resolute optimism prevails and although hurdles lie ahead, we have nowhere to go but up ...   looking backward. Commodities were here before the stock market, and they’ll be here after. Investments in commodities and managed futures, according to Marketwatch, Bloomberg and Barclays, are predicted [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 21:34:51

Commodity Boom Turns Bust in 2008 as Worldwide Economy Crumbles

By Pham-Duy Nguyen Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) — Commodity prices in 2008 plunged the most in five decades as demand for energy, ... , the slumping economy drove crude oil, gasoline, copper, corn, and wheat down from records in the first ... commodities to post gains. Gasoline futures declined to $1.0082 a gallon last year on the New York [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 18:57:26

Copper Rises in London on Speculation China Will Purchase Metal

By Claudia Carpenter Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) — Copper rose in London, erasing this week’s loss, on speculation that China’s State Reserve Bureau, ... . Aluminum inventory in warehouses monitored by the Shanghai Futures Exchange declined 18 percent ... in the UBS Bloomberg CMCI Index of 26 commodities. On the LME, copper inventories jumped 5,875 tons [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 16:23:59

Obama Hates Oil Speculators, Hearts Ethanol

Bloomberg reports that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is proposing new rules to increase government interven... err... oversight in energy markets. He wants to "require the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to regulate trading in energy futures contracts and direct the commission to investigate ways [more...]

Date: 2008-06-23 16:04:51

BLOOMBERG: World According to TARP No Laughing Matter for U.S. (Update1)

By Abigail Moses and Shannon D. Harrington Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) ... by credit-default swaps prompted calls from SEC Chairman Christopher Cox, Commodity Futures Trading ... . The regulatory system is ``terribly broken,'' he said. The Federal Reserve has given futures exchanges until [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 09:01:01

While Greenspan Slept

This Bloomberg special report may have slipped by unnoticed last week during all of the market mayhem ... of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to study regulating over-the-counter derivatives. In 2000, Congress ... on a company's debt, would grow to $62 trillion from $631 billion in 2001. While the swaps spread risk [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 11:00:00

Sunday morning links

TOP STORIES Barclays mulls Lehman bid, Paulson begs banks to deliver a rescue - Telegraph Wall St ... Ones - NY Times Fed futures increase bets on rate cut in coming months - MarketWatch Greenspan Says ... - AP Asia Stocks Fall for Second Week, Led by Commodities Producers - Bloomberg China inspects dairy [more...]

Date: 2008-09-14 13:39:00

Stocks in Europe, Asia Decline, Led by Banks; U.S. Futures Fall

By Adam Haigh Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) — Stocks in Europe and Asia declined for a second day, ... analysts who study charts of trading patterns. Stocks in Europe and futures on the S&P 500 recouped ... led by commodity producers and financial companies on concern the deepening recession will erode [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 13:44:57

American Gold IRA Report: Gold Heads for Record Eighth Annual Gain on Dollar, Recession

By Stuart Wallace Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) ... Index of 26 commodities this year, behind cocoa. The gains attracted money from investors seeking ... . This year’s advance would be the smallest since 2001. Futures for February fell $10.40, or 1.2 percent [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 17:00:37

Oil Set for Rebound as Record Drop Spurs OPEC Production Cuts

By Grant Smith and Mark Shenk Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Oil futures may rebound from their worst year to average $60 a barrel next year as OPEC makes ... be turning around.” Crude futures averaged $100 this year, the highest since crude began trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange in 1983. Oil plunged along with commodities from copper to corn [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 00:25:00

Breaking: Obama to name Mary Schapiro to SEC

Several media outlets including Bloomberg and the WSJ are reporting that Mary Schapiro will be tapped to head the SEC at a news conference in ... Industry Regulatory Authority and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission certainly seems helpful [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 00:34:52

Green Ink: Detroit Gets Greener, Will Jobs?

paper Crude futures peeked above $100 on rebounding stock markets and signs of financial-market stability, Bloomberg reports ... markets, the WSJ reports (sub reqd.), with question marks over commodities trades made with Lehman [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 12:18:37

Unfolding Worldwide Turmoil Could Reverse Years of Prosperity

TIPPING POINT? Traders work at the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange in Sao Paulo. Brazilian stocks plunged the most in a decade as commodity producers dropped, and trading was halted twice because of the decline. (By Marcos Issa — Bloomberg News) [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 15:21:42

India Halts Trading of Stocks, Bonds, Rupee on Mumbai Attacks

BLOOMBERG - Chen Shiyin and Pooja Thakur Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) ... commandos battled to free hostages held by gunmen at two luxury hotels. S&P CNX Nifty Index futures ... and National Stock Exchange were shut, along with bond, foreign exchange, commodities and money [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 02:58:22

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