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One Upside To The Economic Crisis: Cheap Gas

As the US dollar crashes and the financial markets around the world start to implode, we may see an happy side effect: cheap gas ... prices to several other measures, and concluded that crude oil is the most overpriced commodity ... higher than any other commodity. Relative to per capita income, oil prices would have to fall [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 19:55:40

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Inflation round the corner?

One of John Murphy's intermarket watch areas was the relationship between the 10-year treasury note price and the price of oil ... return it will be bullish for commodities and commodity based stocks, but I am still of the belief gold has to drop more in line with other commodity prices - with that of other precious metals - before [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 11:57:48

Atlanta Real Estate Recovery

Recession is Official: Let’s Chart the Recovery Post 1 of 3 in the Atlanta Real Estate Recovery series (energy, housing, credit) ... a higher demand for all commodities: Oil, Metals, etc. So as oil prices grew at staggering rates, speculation began to take place in the form of long positions on oil futures that pushed the price [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 12:00:31

Russia Wrestles With Ruble Collapse

Russia Wrestles With Ruble Collapse Vitaliy N. Katsenelson - Forbes Bad decisions when times were fat spell a rough road ahead for those who ... growth in this decade was completely driven by rising commodity prices, mainly of oil and gas. As the global economy goes into recession and commodity prices either decline or remain at today’s levels [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 14:02:46

Deputy finance minister’s head in the sand

4 December, 2008 General News/Issues Source : Malaysiakini Deputy finance minister’s head in the sand Charles Santiago | Dec 4, 08 2: ... slashed, future orders cut down to critical levels and retrenchments are being planned. Job losses ... palm and other commodity prices. Crude oil prices dropped to a three-year-low to US$48 yesterday [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 07:39:45

Commodities jump alongside oil prices

By MADLEN READ NEW YORK (AP) — Metals and grains rose alongside energy prices in light trading Friday, after a nine-day plunge in oil encouraged investors to buy back into the struggling commodities market. But so far, there is little evidence that crude oil or other battered commodities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 14:09:19

Who let the oil market be manipulated?

For anyone who believes that speculation by energy traders explains at least a portion of the run-up in oil prices, the announcement that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating oil market ... some commodity trading exchanges to operate without oversight while others must report what's going [more...]

Date: 2008-05-30 15:51:47

Rising sea levels ‘could spark conflict over energy and food reserves’

From Telegraph UK A report revealed “environmental stress” had increased the risk of conflicts over food and resources in the region ... to the escalating fight for the world’s natural resources, including an increasingly precious commodity – dry ... nations. High global oil and commodity prices, the biofuels boom and the economic downturn [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 10:23:37

60 Minutes: Did Speculation Fuel Oil Price Swings?

60 Minutes: Did Speculation Fuel Oil Price Swings? (CBS) ... , a commodity that was theoretically priced according to supply and demand doubled from $69 a barrel ... at a certain price at some date in the future. Read more... January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 00:59:56

Herd Mentality

Image of stampede from this Yorkshire UK site In times of great uncertainty, ... and unrepresentative. We see it, too, in huge price swings for commodities (which benefit Big Oil and other price-fixing oligopolies), for stocks (which benefit commissioned brokers and agents -- the type [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 02:37:04

Price of Oil Lowers After Government Reports Reserves

Its simply a matter of supply and demand, and it seems we have a surplus of oil supply that is allowgin for reasonable prices for oil. Sure you can argue that we can’t always expect such low prices for gas since inflation ... energy commodities? OPEC? *shiver* A Breakdown of Where Oil Goes According to a report [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 10:13:23

Southeast Asia: Newsmakers of 2008

The big story of the year in Southeast Asia was the global economic downturn. A rice and food price crisis hit the region last summer. It was compounded by the dramatic rise of oil and gas prices. When prices of these commodities began to stabilize, Wall Street announced the crash of several banks and major financial institutions [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 05:36:57

Bernanke's Testimony Apocalyptic (For Fed Chief)

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs ... have been compounded by rapid increases in the prices of energy and other commodities, which have sapped household ... , a softening labor market, and rising prices of oil, food, and some other commodities. Let [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 14:34:00

Falling Down: Enviros Shouldn?t Sweat Lower Oil Prices

Falling oil prices generally aren’t good news for environmentalists ... question is how far oil can fall, and if that will be enough. Crude futures dropped below $90 a barrel ... to get cash to speculate in oil, or any other commodities market. OPEC president Chakib Khelil said [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 19:55:00

delhistockclub Antique-Sun Sets On Oil, Negative for Reliance, Cairn, Selan, Gail & Ongc

Please find enclosed our Oil & Gas sector report 'Sun sets on oil era' covering Indian upstream companies ... prices, since with falling commodity prices and increased availability of contractors, capital costs ... . Key highlights:• Contrary to market expectations, we believe that oil prices to remain [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 06:05:00

SPECULATORS ARE NOT DRIVING UP OIL PRICES, REPORT SAYS

As Congress debates how to curtail the role of speculators and rein in rising oil prices, ... report by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with help from six other agencies, including ... offer investors a future return linked to commodity markets, were roughly balanced between purchases [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 13:21:56

Deflation: Disaster or Just A Nice Discount?

When economists think deflation, they see looming disaster in the form of Japan’s deep recession of the 1990s or even the Great Depression ... are entirely identifiable: resource slack; falling oil and commodity prices; lower import prices [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 11:28:00

Oil recovers with Dow rally

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The daily survey from motorist group price of oil on Monday reversed AAA. Prices peaked at $4 ... , have already started cutting back founder of commodities brokerage on oil use, said Cordier ... has already taken investors sold off crude futures place, and it's going to take a as stock indexes around [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 17:17:35

BIS: No Evidence of Second-Round Effects From High Oil Prices

Central bank concerns about the “second-round effects” of rising oil and food prices on medium-term inflation rates may have been without a strong ... prices. But a paper by two BIS economists found that in recent years “higher commodity prices ... began to expect higher inflation in the future.” Sweden’s Riksbank raised its key rate three times [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 13:22:17

Idiots in the Intelligence Community

Idiots in the Intelligence Community Gordon G. Chang - 11.21.2008 - 1:42 PM America’s place in the sun is just about over ... to know what the future will look like is extrapolate. Nonetheless, Global Trends extrapolates. Worse ... increase in oil and commodity prices. That’s a brave assumption, when we have just seen oil fall [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 18:42:22

Coalition of big consumers of oil blames speculators for high prices

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Speculation by financial traders is causing a substantial boost in crude oil prices, according to a group of big consumers of oil now asking Congress to impose limits on commodity ... what he called “physical traders” such as airlines and the trucking industry. –From CNN’s Paul Courson [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 17:59:33

NYT's Krugman: Speculators schmeculators - demand is pushing oil higher, not traders

Filed under: International markets, Commodities, OilOne of the major economic debates on Main Street and in Washington concerns the influence of ... -- driven it higher than a level the commodity would trade at if the price were based solely on supply ... a commodity's price can rise a great deal, without the influence of speculators. His evidence: iron [more...]

Date: 2008-07-01 17:34:00

New Year’s rally for suckers, hold onto gold!

Order my book online from this link You have to imagine the hedge fund professionals playing it cool yesterday while the Dow rallied by 2 ... trading strategy. The numbers still look awful and the Dow is way too high given the outlook for losses ... in sight. Lower commodity prices, particularly oil, and some improvement to the credit markets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 07:34:54

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

What Can Onions Teach Us About Oil Prices?

Onions have no futures market, yet their recent price volatility makes the swings in oil and corn look tame ... in a commodity not in today's news: onions. The bulbous root is the only commodity for which futures trading is banned. Back in 1958, onion growers convinced themselves that futures traders were [more...]

Date: 2008-06-29 15:52:02

‘A Hanging Concentrates the Human Mind’

Cross-Posted at Left Flank (featuring Charlie Rose’s interview with Martin Wolf) ... see 6% GDP growth next year. And, commodity prices, including oil, continue to fall (although ... their future”: either spend, or save. I found this interesting because, amid the rush to reform [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 04:20:55

Global trends driving 'land grab' in poor nations: activists

A farmer in the Philippines where the government have opened talks with Qatar over the lease of agricultural land KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) ... including high prices for oil and commodities, the biofuels boom, and now the sweeping downturn ... group Grain said in a recent report.It said that some deals were targeted at boosting food security [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 07:42:00

U.S Market Update

- Equity markets have begun the week in positive territory, helped by declining commodity prices. Oil futures have shed about $4/bbl and gold has fallen this morning as the dollar has firmed ... % in Chicago led by Wheat while August natural gas is off close to 5% despite the formulation [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 15:35:29

Corn v. Crude

Why are corn and oil prices rising in tandem? I've become a bit obsessive about oil prices -- I check them online several times each day, just out of habit. But most other commodities remain something of a mystery to me. I keep ... from the phenomenally helpful futuresource.com, comparing the rise in recent futures contracts for corn [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 22:42:50

Maryland’s Gensler finds a spot in Obama administration

Some Marylanders’ names have been tossed around as possibilities for posts in the Obama administration (i.e. former Rep. Wayne Gilchrest and Dr ... as his pick to head up the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The CFTC oversees $5 trillion in futures and options trading — oil and other commodities prices have been hot-button issues there this year [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 18:11:06

U.S. POWER, INFLUENCE WILL DECLINE IN FUTURE - NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL

The report aims to better inform policymakers, ... Thursday paints an alarming picture of an unstable future for international relations defined ... fueled by long-term “increases in oil and commodity prices” along with a gradual shift [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 02:44:43

The latest word on those nefarious oil speculators

A new report from Michael Masters, scourge of the commodity index speculators, provides some startling numbers that, on their face, ... into the major commodity indices." The price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil rose $33 per ... for the exits of the S&amp;P Goldman Sachs Commodity Index." They pulled out about $39 billion. The price [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 20:02:23

Oil prices sink further below USD 40

Oil prices fell further below USD 40 in Asian trade on Tuesday in a market plagued by weak energy demand, dealers said. ... sweet crude for delivery in February, shed 77 cents to USD 39.14 a barrel in morning trade after sliding ... in London on Monday. “The market is in freefall,” said Mark Pervan, senior commodities analyst with ANZ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 09:02:47

Baker Huges Destroys Four Years Of Gains (BHI)

Lower and lower oil prices are good for the broad economy, but they are bringing pain up and down the oil patch ... will factor lower commodity prices and slower global demand growth into their budgets and a lack [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 16:49:46

Global trends driving ‘land grab’ in poor nations: activists

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Resource-hungry nations are snapping up huge tracts of agricultural land in poor Asian nations, ... including high prices for oil and commodities, the biofuels boom, and now the sweeping downturn ... rights group Grain said in a recent report. It said that some deals were targeted at boosting food [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 01:47:51

ForexGen | Oil Falls Below $54 as US Demand Outlook Worsens

Oil falls below $54 as rising oil inventories, bad economic data point to falling US demand Oil prices fell below $54 a barrel Thursday as dismal U ... of $52.62 earlier in the session. Investors tend to increase their holdings in commodities like oil ... to $53.27 on the ICE Futures exchange. Prices have hovered just above three-year lows this week as [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 13:16:13

Iran Tests Missiles, Oil Prices Surge Again

VIENNA, Austria — Oil prices rebounded from consecutive days of steep declines after Iran test-fired nine missiles Wednesday, ... investors from pumping more money into commodities. Fears that the economic slowdown is spreading [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 14:03:57

The Cheese is Back

by paradox In these carefree times of 2009, such times of prancing nonchalance, not only has the US Manufacturing Index cliff-dived but commodity prices have too--crude oil has been on a dive none of us will likely see again--and the dreaded dairy price subsidies have kicked [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 15:41:29

What Your Broker's Reports Should Tell You, Morningstar

Hurry to mutual finance scrutiny. It is just opening again. You do not want to forget this. The mutual deposit assay visitors said its untreated capital justice indicator was the worst-performing of the group, with a drip of 48.5 per cent. "Oil and commodity prices tumbled in 2008 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 03:57:00

Overnight markets: Down

Asian stocks and US futures slid Thursday, following US and European markets down amid fresh fears that worldwide bank rescue programmes have come too late. Crude oil prices fell to 13-month lows as commodities prices tumbled across the board. US markets (Wed) DJIA down 733.08 at 8,577.91 Nasdaq... [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 04:44:46

Does Matt Simmons still expect $200 oil in two years?

The price for a barrel of oil has fallen from $145 in July to less than $40 ... . The last time commodity prices soared, in the late 1970s, Simon bet environmental scaremonger Paul ... to bet against energy or any other resource becoming scarcer and more expensive in the future,” Tierney [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 16:38:49

Singapore: positioned to weather the global shock

Special Author: Pang Eng Fong, Singapore Management University Singapore’s economy grew by 7.7 per cent in 2007 ... without increasing the tax burden of future generations. The large pool of foreign workers – ... cuts. Commodity and oil prices have fallen sharply [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 11:00:57

Paul Krugman Critiques Guillermo Calvo on Commodity Prices

The fact that somebody has bought an oil futures contract means that somebody else has sold one--hence no effect on demand without real storage ... , as far as I can tell, online. Why isn’t Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv on JSTOR?). Speculation can affect ... institutions that buy commodity futures as an investment — are responsible for the price surge. The [more...]

Date: 2008-06-22 15:35:07

Sunday morning links

#fullpost{display:inline;}TOP STORIESThe End of the Financial World as We Know It - NY TimesEvans says Fed needs to mimic below-zero rates - ... assistance - ReutersMARKETS/INVESTINGA year after $100, oil prices cut in half - SF Gate'Silver prices will follow Gold in 2009' - Commodity OnlinePeter Bernstein’s biggest worry? The dollar - Implode [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 14:42:00

Bush Ends Executive Ban on Off-Shore Drilling and Oil Prices Drop 7% in two trading sessions

June 20, 2008 — USA Today: Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign released remarks he plans to make at the start of a news conference in ... of futures trading in commodities. – WLS ... on July 14 — $145.18. Price of oil at close on July 16 — $134.60. “Crude-oil futures tumbled $4.14 [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 00:34:34

Why did Russian stock prices start to drop in May?

The RTS index of Russian stocks began to decline in mid-May: Russian RTS 07jan09 Source: Bloomberg investment tools. Oil prices (and broader commodity indices) wouldn't peak for weeks, the war with Georgia didn't start until August, and the Putin/Medvedev predation on corporate Russia had been obvious for years. Why was May [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 06:53:17

Oil Prices Mixed As Market Focuses On Soft Demand

NEW YORK: Oil prices were mixed on Tuesday as market concerns about soft demand eclipsed supply concerns amid rising geopolitical tensions in the ... due to deepening geopolitical frictions, analysts said. The New York futures contract hit an intra ... of an economic recovery in 2009, hedge funds back on commodities and finally cold temperatures,” said [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 03:30:26

The case for oil price speculation improves

U.C. San Diego economist Jim Hamilton has long argued that fundamental forces of supply and demand explain oil prices better than "speculation ... by David Cho, "A Few Speculators Dominate Vast Market for Oil Trading." Hamilton closed his dissection ... recently deemed by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to be more of a speculator than [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 16:28:48

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