A Critical Day For Commodities - A Look At Wheat, Aluminum, & Copper

A Critical Day For Commodities - A Look At Wheat, Aluminum, & Copper Posted December 5th, 2008 by Epiphany Investing Basic Materials Alcoa aluminum charts copper Freeport front month futures market mosaic Potash Corp technical analysis Read the full article: http [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 21:15:04

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Helping your consumers to gain more profits

Consumers are individuals or households that consume goods and services generated within the economy ... of consumers they are talking about person as consumer, an aggregated commodity item with little individuality ... in order to gain a greater budget in future periods. This investment choice may include either fixed [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 16:49:03

iBankCoin Spits on You

Why do you people bother blogging? No one reads your shit anyway. Let your readers come to my site and they will never go back to yours ... . There will be more bodies. I know oil is a very popular investment for the internet type these days. Back ... the ramifications of the credit squeeze and declining commodity prices, no doubt. COP has over 22 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 03:16:40

How Much Did Harvard Lose?

by Andrew GillenLost among the holiday shuffle was a piece in the Huffington Post (HT: Felix Salmon) ... physical commodities. Such "real assets" plunged in value, if they could be sold, much more severely ... : by investing in risky, illiquid assets (including shares in hedge funds who did same). Their ability [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 17:05:00

Byron Wien’s ten surprises for 2009

Dead on target at the beginning of the new year, 75-year-old Byron Wien again published his annual list of surprises to expect in 2009. Wien, chief investment strategist of Pequot Capital and one of Wall Street’s best known veterans ... /demand balance. Other commodities also rise, some doubling from their 2008 lows. Natural gas goes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 08:09:07

AAA Spread Tightening a Sure 2009 Bet...

I wrote back on 18th December in Corporate Bonds: Discounting Depression that investment grade corporate bonds were a cheaper and lower risk play ... other markets like equities and commodities, and is a good each-way bet in what will be another volatile year for markets. Sphere: Related Content [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 12:14:00

Rigour? In a blog?

Brad DeLong has an impressively clear (although, or perhaps because, a bit technical) piece on risk appetite and fundamental values of assets ... of asset prices are the money-metric values that the costate variables associated with the commodities ... for the limited amount of savings capital available in the world? If I, as a productively investing busin [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 03:23:44

The Shortest Investment Book Ever by James O’Donnell

... in commodities or buying options and futures, but for 99% of individuals that stuff won’t matter [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 11:30:02

5 Legendary Investors Whom You Are Sure to be Interested In

We like to highlight the people that do exceptionally well in every industry. In sports, there are all-stars and in Hollywood, there are super stars ... in 1980 as he made bold calls such as predicting China’s huge growth, the rise in commodity price ... . Recommended Books By Jim Rogers: A Gift to My Children: A Father’s Lessons for Life and Investing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 14:00:57

What are Hedge Funds

In the securities world, the term "Hedge Fund" does not necessarily imply any use of "hedging" as commonly understood; for example where commodity traders use options to "hedge" a commodity position. Presently, in the securities world the term "hedge fund" refers to any type of Private Investment Company operating [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 22:27:00

I’m Investing - Now What?

The good news is that there are nearly an unlimited number of ways and strategies to be successful in investing and managing your money ... . Regardless of any sentimental meaning you may attach to it, it represents a commodity of value only. Tip #2: Don’t buy or sell from a broker on the last two days of a calendar month. If you don’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 02:31:09

All signs point to explosive rise in the gold price: Part 1

“Downside protection and potential extraordinary upside participation” With more than 20 years of experience in the investment industry, ... s got to stimulate. Is it going to be enough and what will that mean for commodities? Or, if it doesn ... it was in ’02, but there’s less gold around, ostensibly because the rise in all the other commodities [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:28:26

Rot in the Apple

René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, founder of investment fund Access International, ... Gramm – a champion of deregulation – proposed an 11th-hour bill known as the Commodities Futures ... be legal under the proposed law – they would be allowed to trade off of exchanges and thus beyond [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 22:52:00

Inc Magazine Individual Investors Email List

42,430 Total Investors The Inc. Magazine Individual Investors Email list consists of entrepreneurs who play an active role in their personal ... for their financial futures. These savvy investors spread their investments across a wide spectrum in order to diversify their portfolios. Stocks, bonds, CDs, mutual funds, real estate, commodities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 08:36:15

China’s FDI inflow seen at $95 bln in 2008 -minister

China will attract an estimated $95 billion of foreign direct investment (FDI) this year, Minister of Commerce Chen Deming said on Tuesday ... 22, 2008 — Aussie advances on firmer commodities, gains muted August 13, 2008 — Free Forex Trading ... Street Gains; Oil Extends Losses December 22, 2008 — HK dollar falls slightly, interbank rates ease [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 05:55:42

MortgageNewsClips: Bay Area, Dodging Inflation, Battle Plan, Gary Gensler is Back, Run Away Fast, Zubin’s Charts, Felix Salmon on Rates, Lumber, Desperate, On Refis, PMI Review, Different CRA Views

 Median price for Bay Area homes down 44 percent from year ago - Eve Mitchell  - San Jose Mercury ... to Commodities Post - By EDMUND L. ANDREWS - Nine years ago, Gary Gensler played a central role in fending off ... Investment Group  ———— zubin-chris_mayer   zubin    portfolio 6 interesting charts [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 19:18:32

Philippines: Govt. subsidy program to offset rice price hikes.

This is from the daily Tribune.The price of rice in the Philippines is almost half of what it was at its peak. However as the report projecting prices notes there is less investment globally in inputs due ... in demand. As a staple, rice demand is less elastic than with many other commodities. Also [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 14:40:00

Investment Banks, By the Numbers

At the beginning of 2007 the five major investment-banking firms (not including those, such as J.P. Morgan Chase & Co ... tons, both on bets in currency and commodity markets, and on the trading of those assets ... billion Merrill Lynch financial advisors, second quarter 2008: 16,690 Bank of America financial [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 15:09:09

Madoff's "Woman on Wall St."

NYTimes reports:VIENNA — With an aggressive style that stood out in the staid world of Austrian banking even more than her bouffant red wig, ... last week.Embarrassment from investing heavily with Mr. Madoff could explain wanting to disappear from public view ... . (Russia’s richest men have been especially strapped as commodity prices and their stock [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 08:40:00

Live-Blogging Goldman Sachs’ Fourth-Quarter Earnings

We nominate this for the securities industry’s saddest sentence: “For the period ended Nov. 30, Goldman reported a net loss of $2 ... of long-term investing decisions…we entered into these decisions with a full understanding of fair-value implications…” 11:09: M&A, rates, currencies, commodities and asset management were [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 16:26:31

Live-Blogging Goldman Sachs’ Fourth-Quarter Earnings

We nominate this for the securities industry’s saddest sentence: “For the period ended Nov. 30, Goldman reported a net loss of $2 ... of long-term investing decisions…we entered into these decisions with a full understanding of fair-value implications…” 11:09: M&A, rates, currencies, commodities and asset management were [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 19:11:00

Tell Me About Forex Scalping

Trading on the Foreign Exchange market, or forex, has become increasingly popular due in no small part to its sheer size and volume of trading ... Forex investment strategies and at its simplest involves anticipating short-term movements ... in the Forex. Just as with equities or commodities traders, investors in the Forex need some type [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 18:58:00

Now The US Steel Industry Is In Collapse and Looking For A Massive Government Bailout Of $1 Trillion

bangheadagainstwall To stimulate demand for the key commodity, a report said Friday ... , The New York Times reported. Industry executives are pleading for a huge public infrastructure investment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 21:36:58

Golden Ratios

Carolyn Cui reports: Precious metals ratios are far from a sure-fire indicator ... , gold tends to stand out as an ultimate store of value. Commodity investors often look at these ratios for clues, as hard assets such as oil, gold or wheat don’t enjoy handy investing yardsticks [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 17:38:15

Weekly Futures Positions Review - November 30, 2008

Top posts from the past week: Are Any Grains Worth Buying At These Prices? ... are the most attractive investment opportunity I see today. They are actually trading below the prices they were at when the entire bull market in commodities began. Other existing positions I've got [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 21:31:00

The Fed Shouldn’t Escape Blame for Investment Bubbles

If you haven’t noticed, gas prices are back down ... the credit mania and then compounded the felony with a commodity bubble and run on the dollar whose ... can be a problem. But if we want more stable markets in the future, we need to be sure to address [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 13:16:17

Not an optimal investment allocation

Bob Greer and John Cavalieri at Pimco have put together an interesting article that drives yet another stake into the investment thesis favored by ... two-thirds of their retirement money to stocks and continuing to do so indefinitely into the future ... commodity prices as well. We saw it most obviously at the gas pump, but in fact a very broad range [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 15:39:00

HOW OBAMA WOULD STIFLE DRUG INNOVATION

The pharmaceutical industry has begun to give up on developing drugs for routine medical problems in favor of discovering "specialty" ... controls -- based on a view of medical care as a commodity to be purchased at the lowest price, with little ... economically pernicious effect of price and access controls is how they distort future investment decisions [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 13:35:56

Morgan Stanley eyes to own Brazilian ethanol plant

Sao Paulo, July 10 (IANS) US investment banking giant Morgan Stanley has said it wants to expand its presence in the alternative fuel industry from ... through its commodities trading desk, EFE reported Thursday quoting business website Valor Online ... trading to production and is negotiating to buy stake of a planned sugarcane-based ethanol plant [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 11:39:10

Introducing GalaTime 5L Virtual Portfolios

I’ve been mulling over some new initiative in the area of portfolio management for retail investors in India ... . Q: Is this an investment / trading game? Is this an online tool that allows me to track ... ; these include - stocks, stock & index futures & options, ETFs, commodity futures &amp [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 14:18:04

THE DEMON ECONOMIST OF MAIDA VALE; AMERICA SINGING "DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY" ALL THE WAY TO THE COLLAPSE

I have written extensively about both the commodity shock on Terra of the past summer and the deep decline in the price of petrol at the pump in the ... or investment. The class jealously that revolves around yachts and furs and diamond necklaces would [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 11:37:00

Bookkeeping: Tax Loss Selling in ReneSola (SOL) and Life Sciences Research (LSR)

Well unlike most mutual funds and institutions if you invested in this (future) mutual fund you will see what I do every week ... of consolidation in this space as it is a commodity but I thought it would come later - 2010/2011 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 18:45:42

Creating “Mini-TARP” Bonus Pools Would Help

Good Evening: As 2008 bumps, grinds, and otherwise limps its way to a close, various asset markets can be expected to trade in narrow ranges ... in the future, they are faced with a doubt-laden present. Today’s economic statistics in the U.S. are a case in point. Consumer sentiment offered a mildly positive surprise, with a nice uptick in “future [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 04:55:44

Lawsuit Targets Banks With Novel Tactic

Some Cleveland neighborhoods have a message for banks that abandon their foreclosed houses or unload them at fire sale prices to speculators: ... go downhill from there: “The vacant property enters the cheap housing ‘commodity’ market, where ... , sometimes for less than $1,000 - the housing equivalent of trading in ‘penny stocks.’ “The vast majority [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 08:11:08

A critique of the market as optimal system, and remedies for the meltdown

Why is it that: “The need for a pervasive, permanent role of government in directing investment also emerges from more recent studies of economic ... outcomes rests on Pareto optimality, an absurdly narrow definition of social goals. A proposal ... competition only leads to the right outcomes if everything that matters is a marketable commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 12:48:22

Fed?s Stern Optimistic on Treasury Plan to Buy Assets

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Gary Stern said Thursday he is “cautiously optimistic” about the recently passed Treasury plan to buy ... -related investments from the market in a bid to get the financial system trading openly again. Stern ... of inflation, absent a resurgence in energy and other commodity prices.” He added that inflation [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 10:52:00

Sitka Pacific 3rd Quarter Results

Regular readers of this blog know that I am an investment advisor representative for Sitka Pacific ... we have witnessed for a very long time. The equity markets declined over 9% for the month, commodities [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 10:09:00

How to Find Underpriced Opportunities in a Monetary Crisis

Regardless of what side of the inflation/deflation debate you're on, one thing is certain: false forms of value are being destroyed, and there is a " ... this question, we will need to understand the origins of money. The Origins of Money Long, long ago, before the advent of paper money, people bartered goods. In other words, if you made shoes and I [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:50:47

Non-Stock Investment Options

I discovered this very informative article, “No-Stock Portfolio, ... building I’ve ever worked in for the last 5 years (well, except my house). Energy: Specifically funds ... I was in Vanguard’s tax exempt money market but the yield on that baby pretty much dried up. Gold: Another commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 16:15:30

How To Make Money through Investment

Listen to this article As a result of the global financial crisis ravaging the world, it is pertinent to proffer solutions to this breakdown ... that could be spent on more fruitful activities, like making money). Look into equity mutual funds. Watch the fees. Look for good long term funds with low expenses. Index funds are a good starting [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 16:22:00

Why are prices falling? Why does this scare the bourgeoisie?

by Eddy Laing“Credit Suisse chief economist Joseph Tan told The Straits Times that the dramatic fall in prices was due to ‘massive unwinding’ by ... . These speculators - whose bets on future prices drove prices to record highs - are fleeing to safer havens ... (a ‘commodity’ to Marxian economists) is determined by the amount of labor that goes into [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 17:02:15

Mining Exploration Result, Demand and Trade Review : Metal Demand May Be Slow Hope Runs High for Gold

By now the global financial crisis has hopefully taught investors that just like property prices, metal prices do not always go up ... , often a year or so apart. Last year bulk commodities such as iron ore, coal and manganese proved ... agreed, advising investors to go long on gold and short on bulk commodities and base metals. Boom times [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 16:52:18

DrumBeat: December 28, 2008

With gas falling, trucks come back NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- After nearly a year of flagging sales, low gas prices and fat incentives are reigniting America's taste for big vehicles. Trucks and SUVs will outsell cars in December, according to researchers at the automotive Website Edmunds.com, something that hasn't happened since February [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 14:31:34

Tips for Improving your Investing

Many investors -- especially beginning investors -- want tips for improving their investing. There are a lot of tools out there ( ... strategies. However, Stock Trading To Go has some very basic and active things you can do in order ... as funds, bonds, currencies, options, commodities, futures and other opportunities might [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 19:38:01

The Curious Case of Ecuador’s Default – And Why It Matters

Thomas Trebat | RGE Monitor, Jan 8, 2009 One of the questions concerning Latin America in 2009 is whether or not the region will be plunged into yet another dismal round of debt defaults as commodity prices stay low and foreign capital inflows frozen solid.For the skeptics, Ecuador is Exhibit A. In the context of a region that gave [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 04:53:00

Sunday Morning Crumbs

Click charts to ENLARGE. No doubt that the big money comes from holding a trending, winning position, rather than trading ... that among the BRIC house (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) the short-term winners are the commodity ... see how much follow-through we get today. Good trading and great risk management [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 13:27:11

Sovereign Wealth Funds Shun Global Investing amid Crisis

Only 12 months ago pundits claimed most emerging markets would be immune from the credit crisis engulfing the United States and Europe ... constituent of the four commodity indexes I track (CRB, GSCI, Rogers and AIG-Dow Jones), has tanked ... or Sovereign Wealth Funds. That picture is now dampened by rapidly compressing asset values [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 14:17:56

Did Speculation Fuel Oil Price Swings?

(CBS) About the only economic break most Americans have gotten in the last six months has been the drastic drop in the price of oil, which has fallen even more precipitously than it rose. In a year's time, a commodity that was theoretically priced according to supply and demand doubled from $69 a barrel to nearly $150 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 15:10:00

Media Release: Constellation Selling its Value Spirits Brands for $334 Million

·         Increases focus on higher-margin mid-premium spirits brands·         Leverages existing infrastructure to improve efficiencies·         Will reduce borrowings using net cash proceeds·         Updates fiscal 2009 reported basis diluted EPS guidance FAIRPORT, N.Y., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Constellation Brands, Inc [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 15:19:54

DrumBeat: January 1, 2009

Blackout fear for EU as gas row escalates Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, called on Moscow and Kiev to solve the dispute as soon as possible. While Gazprom, the Russian energy giant, says it will continue pumping gas to European customers through Ukrainian territory, there are fears that Germany, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 13:44:53

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