Alcoa Shedding Costs to Bare Bones
Alcoa (AA) announced after the close of trading yesterday that it will cut some 15,000 jobs or about 15% of its workforce ... . This is in stark contrast to shares of Rio Tinto (RTP), whose price surged during the rise in commodities prices ... goods and commodities. There are reports of surplus aluminum stockpiled in China and Europe [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 18:24:53
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Media Digest 1/6/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According the Reuters, December domestic cars sales were the worst month in years. Reuters writes that Toyota (TM) will cut plants. Reuters reports that Apple's (AAPL) Jobs tried to calm investors about his health. Reuters reports that China is making strategic use of commodity priced collapses. Reuters reports [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 09:02:51
Commodity Bulls Jump The Shark
The GlobeAndMail is reporting on The Real Reason Commodities Are Tumbling. To hear Donald Coxe tell it, the commodity selloff ripping through Canada's stock market is no accident. It is the result of a deliberate, brilliantly executed plan hatched at the highest levels [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 05:42:38
Baruch College’s Schwartz Institute Featured in Higher Education Magazine Change-’Improving Communication is Everyone’s Responsibility’ by Fara Warner
In 2003, Terrence Martell, a finance professor at the City University of New York’s Baruch College, encountered a classroom of 80 seniors who could navigate the complex intricacies of the futures markets and commodities trading. But when he asked them to write a report explaining to a commodity [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 17:12:05
Has the Commodity Bubble Popped?
Rob Curran of Dow Jones Newswires has this report on commodities and related stocks, and what may be in store ... % from its record high on July 11 to $127.50 a barrel. Some of the hot commodity stocks, such as coal miner ... a greater decline that traders in the space have become accustomed to, and the biggest percentage [more...]
Date: 2008-07-23 08:59:00
Safe Harbor for Prediction Markets?
As everyone who has read The Wisdom of the Crowds knows, prediction markets are excellent predictors of future events like elections ... Professor John McGinnis reports, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is recognizing the benefits ... , exempting them from cumbersome financial trading laws. As McGinnis argues, creating such an exception would [more...]
Date: 2008-07-11 19:29:49
CNBC On Speculators Gone Wild: ‘So What?’
Yesterday, the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s Dan Weiss stood up for working American families as CNBC host Trish Regan and two other ... Futures Trading Commission released a report recommending specific improvements to commodities markets ... months from January to May traders poured $60 billion into the commodities market and basically per [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 23:30:34
Misleading headline of the day
It's natural to wonder about the real utility provided by editors and others in the publishing business who, for some reason, ... . Such was the case in this story about gold at Commodity Online. IMAGE The headline apparently derived from this paragraph: According to a research report from Kedia Commodities, gold is headed [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 22:15:32
Afternoon Reading: Lehman’s Plans Don’t Impress the Internet
After weeks of speculation, Lehman Brothers finally laid out its plan. The Wall Street firm forecasted a fiscal third-quarter loss of $3 ... what a pickle the firm is in. The firm’s current liquidity should pacify traders for a while. But unless ... , Fuld has a rich “golden parachute.” Tidbits Lehman souvenirs are a hot commodity, reports [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 10:25:00
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
Are You FOREXED OFF WITH YOUR BROKER?
by Singapore Trading Report The legendary commodities trader Ed Seykota, who turned $5,000 into $15 million over a period of 12 years, ... success of any trader’s trading plan. Looking for that Great Forex Broker He told his class they were ... was teaching a course in technical trading to a college class many years ago when he decided [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 10:02:16
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
Forex Trading, Making Money,
by Singapore Trading Report The legendary commodities trader Ed Seykota, who turned $5,000 into $15 million over a period of 12 years, ... success of any trader’s trading plan. Looking for that Great Forex Broker He told his class they were ... was teaching a course in technical trading to a college class many years ago when he decided [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 10:05:41
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
CFTC Report on High Oil Prices - "Speculation My A$$"
With a pending Senate vote on the "Stop Excessive Energy Speculation Act", it seems that we (not the TOD 'we', but the collective society 'we') ... . In this report, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), threw cold water on the recent ... , activity on the crude oil futures market – as measured by the number of contracts outstanding, trading [more...]
Date: 2008-07-23 14:47:59
Fox: Drill! Drill! Drill! Corporate Media in Action
If you've ever wondered precisely what "corporate media" means, I've got a quintessential example for you right here. Yesterday (July 7, 2008) ... and Bolling, presented as an objective reporter, who is "also a commodities trader on the New York ... stands to gain. Here are some of the money quotes: Bolling: "I'd like to stand up and say this right [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 15:29:19
FIND THE BEST ONLINE FOREX BROKER
by Singapore Trading Report The legendary commodities trader Ed Seykota, who turned $5,000 into $15 million over a period of 12 years, ... success of any trader’s trading plan. Looking for that Great Forex Broker He told his class they were ... was teaching a course in technical trading to a college class many years ago when he decided [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 09:59:11
THE BEST ONLINE FOREX BROKER
by Singapore Trading Report The legendary commodities trader Ed Seykota, who turned $5,000 into $15 million over a period of 12 years, ... success of any trader’s trading plan. Looking for that Great Forex Broker He told his class they were ... was teaching a course in technical trading to a college class many years ago when he decided [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 10:10:57
Forex Trading- Size is Key to Survival
by singapore trader reports The legendary commodities trader Ed Seykota, who turned $5,000 into $15 million over a period of 12 years, was teaching a class in technical trading to a college class some years ago when he decided ... of any dealer’s trading plan. He said his class they were going to contend in a trading competition [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 01:03:50
Size Does Matter- It helps to survive the market
by singapore trader reports The legendary commodities trader Ed Seykota, who turned $5,000 into $15 million over a period of 12 years, ... - that is, determining how much money you will risk on any single given trade - to the overall ... same time? It is all about position-sizing - how much money you are willing to bet on each trade [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 04:05:22
More Troubling Employment News
At this point it is hard to remember the last time we say positive employment news, and the latest batch isn't helping anything ... commodity prices. As Reuters reports, retail sales in November suffered their biggest drop in five years [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 20:22:37
JPMorgan Take on ISM
The December ISM manufacturing survey was grim. The composite index declined from 36.2 to 32 ... we generally already knew from falling commodity prices. Overall this report was a bad end to a bad quarter, and it gave no real sign of momentum going into early 2009.· The new orders index declined [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 17:26:17
Forex Trading- Size is Key to Survival
by singapore trader reports The well-known commodities trader Ed Seykota, who turned $5,000 into $15 million over a period of 12 years, was teaching a form in technical trading to a college class many years ago when he decided ... of any trader's trading plan. He told his class they were going to compete in a trading contest [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 01:42:08
Media Digest 1/1/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg (GM)(C)(IBM)(TWX)(VIA)(WFC)
According to Reuters, Wall St. closed its worst year since The Depression ... of the US financial stock index dropped 57% last year. The FT reports that the commodities markets ... giant Gazprom has cut deliveries to the Ukraine The New York Times reports that US markets lost [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 10:40:54
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
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&P Goldman Sachs Commodity Index." They pulled out about $39 billion. The price [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 20:02:23
Tuesday morning links
TOP STORIES ‘Bernanke-san’ Signals Policy Shift, Evoking Japan Comparison - Bloomberg Schwarzenegger declares emergency - CNN/Money States Want $176 ... for a bailout - LA Times Goldman may post $2 billion loss - report - CNN/Money MARKETS/INVESTING Oil ... - Raymond James Slowdown in China hits commodities badly - Commodity Online ECONOMY Economic Signs [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 15:14:14
Lean Hog Prices Poised to Climb in 2009
Bloomberg reports that "In the worst year for commodities in at least five decades, hogs rose 6.6 percent, the second-biggest gains on the Reuters/Jefferies CRB Commodity Index, behind cocoa."The article quotes fund manager Mark Greenwood: “We’re going to have 3 to 4 percent less pigs next [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 23:57:00
Cheney Aide Who Opposes Emissions Policy to Get Top Energy Position
A top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and a staunch opponent of environmental policy is reportedly set to receive a senior position at the ... Commodity News published a report that said Hutto [more...]
Date: 2008-08-19 20:00:00
“Housing Markets Will Roar Back in 2009”
At dire times like these, we can all use a laugh or two. So our thanks to the author of the report, “Housing Markets Will Roar Back in 2009 ... bubble’, commodity prices lower, tax credits available for homebuyers, and the government eager ... in late 2009 once price appreciation kicks in.” Let us then ignore two stories in the news: Mortgage [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 16:07:52
WALL STREET CLOSES OUT 2008 WITH LIGHT GAINS
BY KEN SWEET As Wall Street prepares to close out its worst year since the Great Depression, stocks posted light gains Wednesday after traders got a labor market report that came in better ... of Christmas. In the commodity markets, oil gained $2.29 to $41.34 a barrel in New York while gold [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 18:43:54
FACTBOX: Major U.S. financial oversight agencies face reforms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming Obama administration looks likely to shake up the federal agencies that regulate the U.S ... auditors. About 3,500 employees. Formed in 1934. * Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Oversees commodity and financial futures. About 490 employees. Formed in 1974. (Reporting by Kevin Drawbaugh [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 23:44:40
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
PRECIOUS-Gold rebounds from 2-week low on oil
PRECIOUS-Gold rebounds from 2-week low on oil December 8th, 2008 SINGAPORE, Dec 8 (Reuters) ... as dismal U.S. job reports sparked selling of assets fromstocks to oil and commodities. -- Gold &lt ... , when it fell as lowas $740.40 an ounce. -- London Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 rose $1.01 to$40.75 a barrel [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 01:03:06
Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (NYSE:RIO_p) - Significant increase in ADR price. Free research report.
Companhia Vale do Rio Doce’s (Vale) ADR price has increased significantly since our previous update report dated 26 November 2008, reflecting an anticipated revival in commodity demand fueled by lower borrowing costs and rising levels of US government spending. This appreciation was also supported by the company’s organic [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 16:35:32
It's Not The Cheese That Costs so Much
I admit that I can still be astonished. When I watched '60 Minutes' last night I saw a big surprise report that I was right all along about oil ... the commodities futures market. At the New York Mercantile Exchange, it's traded alongside cotton [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 19:28:09
Daily Report for Mon, Oct 27, 2008
The crisis in global equity, commodity and currency markets worsened overnight ... ) as an indicator. US equity futures have come off their earlier lows. ADDENDUM Links & Charts ... is sinking as are prices on the European bourses; the US equity markets may open with futures locked [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 10:13:05
It’s Hard to Be a Hedge Fund
Jay Miller reports: Hedge funds had a rough July as bets on rising commodity prices and falling financial stocks failed to pan out, ... . The trade has been a favorite of traders for some time. High oil prices and troubles in the U.S. banking [more...]
Date: 2008-08-12 08:34:00
Iran Calls For Cut Off of Oil To Israel's Allies
Nothing Screams "Drill Here Drill Now" more than this story ... to the Jewish state's offensive in Gaza, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday. IRNA said commander Bagherzadeh described oil as a commodity that could put pressure on Israel's European [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 17:27:00
The Worm Turns, and Fertilizer Stocks Suffer
Rob Curran has this report on the recent stumbles of the market’s favored high-fliers. Remember the rally in commodity and agricultural stocks that would never end because the world ... traders took cover from the second-quarter sell-off, have flipped into the loser column in the first [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 16:18:07
CME Owners Bracing For Earnings (CME)
CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) is set to report earnings after the close of trading today. The futures and commodities exchange giant estimates (from First Call) are $3.98 EPS and $644.3 million in revenues. Exchanges and financial companies do not offer guidance, but next quarter [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 14:47:34
Tin Pan Alley for Sale
Now might be a good time to take a look at Tin Pan Alley, because The NY Post reports that "the birthplace of American song" has become a real estate commodity. Dating back to 1885, when music publishers came to the area ... . Ekman, whose apartment floors sloped a radical five inches. "She thinks the future of the row [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 20:30:12
ONN.tv's Mark2Market: CME Trader Peter Yastrow Describes Today's Massive Central Bank Actions to Keep Money Flowing
CHICAGO-(Business Wire)-September 18, 2008 - Mark2Market, ONN.tv's newest programming on futures and commodities, goes to the CME/CBOT trading floors every morning for special reports on financial markets and currency trading. On Thursday morning's edition [more...]
Date: 2008-09-18 11:58:00
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
Garnaut mania takes over Australia
Australia has gone crazy for Ross Garnaut over the last few days ... :With this report Ross Garnaut has shown himself to be that rarest of commodities - an highly competent [more...]
Date: 2008-07-07 14:19:05
Telling Jokes at the End of the World
Rob Curran and Geoff Rogow report: Wall Street equity traders usually thrive on volatility, ... with securities or commodities. “People doubt the brokers, and are busy pulling money out from one place to put [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 13:49:45
Four at Four: Santa Rides Off
So long, Santa Claus. The vaunted Santa Claus rally, which failed so miserably at the end of 2007 and into 2008, was better this year, ... , and commodity markets did better. A similar dynamic was observed for IntercontinentalExchange, which reported [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 12:47:00
Why Didn?t Thomas Qualls Show Up for Closing Arguments in His Case?
Comverse had Kobi. Symbol had Tomo. And Bayou had Sam. Did Thomas Qualls, a former currency broker at International Foreign Currency Inc., hit the high road too? Too early to tell, but yesterday, reports the WSJ’s Amir Efrati, an arrest warrant was issued for Qualls, whose commodities fraud trial had begun in mid-October and was set [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 13:44:12
Obama Picks Schapiro for SEC
President-elect Obama has chosen Mary Schapiro to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Wall Street Journal reports ... . She served under the Clinton administration in 1994 as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and as an SEC commissioner from 1988 to 1993." [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 00:17:57
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
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