Great volunteer gig in Ghana for experienced web developer
If my writing on Ghana’s elections, the nation’s stability, peace and comparative prosperity have you excited, well, Mark Davies has a gig for you ... which provides market information for agricultural commodities traded in West Africa. The software [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 15:41:27
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Impetus ranks among Top 15 in GSMA 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition - APAC Tournament
/India PRwire/ - Impetus Technologies (www.impetus.com) ... commodity trading application which is its flagship offering in the Indian Rural VAS market. The application is targeted towards farmers and agricultural commodity traders who need updated information [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 13:15:39
Raymond J. Learsy: More About Speculation and Manipulation In Oil Trading
"Sacre Bleu!" (liberal translation: "Holy Cow!") The Wall Street Journal informs us that " ... Commodity-Market regulators are investigating whether energy market players are injecting false ... assets traders own and control. This all in keeping with the CFTC's previously announced nationwide [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 20:24:15
Other Markets (2)
Most of these exchanges operate on basically the same principle as the stock exchanges, ... of futures, for example, is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rather than ... , today’s computers and dedicated financial media are so broad that information on any [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 08:43:51
CASS SUNSTEIN appears likely to lead the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the White House ... , he said "The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal regulatory agency [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 21:46:10
Blame Fannie
Blame Fannie For fans of historical revisionism, ... from all regulation. (It was, I believe, in 2000, when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... when he said the law needed to be changed to allow some regulator to at least collect information [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 22:00:16
Traditional Forex Brokers Vs Online Broker
These days, day traders opt for online trading because of its trending nature. There a number of benefits of trading Forex online ... timely financial news, information, real-time quotes, charts etc. Coupled with the elimination ... Exchange, Commodities, etc. Source [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 01:00:48
Are Stolen Facebook Profiles the New Hot Commodity?
When you think of fraud and identity theft on the internet, ... , credit card information is currently trading for around 37 dollars per account according to Ecommerce Journal. Facebook profiles are trading for just over 1 dollar. If you are looking for the “big [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 16:10:25
How To Read And Interpret A Weekly Economic Calendar: Institute For Supply Management (ISM)
Formerly known as the NAPM. Change was effective in January 2002. ISM is a composite diffusion index of national manufacturing conditions ... on commodity prices and clues regarding the potential for developing inflation.The Federal Reserve ... monthly Live Accounts contest,This is NOT a demo contestthis is a live trading competition open [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 22:25:00
Option Trading And Stock Market Risks
Option trading is not considered a great investment choice for a novice investor. It involves high risk and is typically a quite volatile business ... sources of information you can use to educate yourself before doing real time trading. Trading ... they will come out ahead in their investment. There are fundamental principles in option trading [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 06:12:39
Turning Point?
Good Evening: It was simply getting too easy. For most of the past 10 weeks, market participants have been able to profitably sell every bounce in the stock market. Shorts were starting to print money almost as fast as our Federal Reserve. But once the S&P 500 took out its 2002 lows on Thursday afternoon/Friday morning, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 06:00:34
Work-Safe Readings for Macro
In response to my post on the porn that is modern macro, readers naturally asked me for alternatives. I think there are two difficult issues that puzzle me about macro. First, as much as some people hate the "Wall Street, Main Street" lingo, the question of how financial markets affect the real economy is really important and unsettled [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 21:28:54
faith and money [2]: what is money?
The basic lesson that all people need to learn about money is that it is a tool as a medium of exchange. Money has a purpose in our society ... individuals each possessing a commodity the other wanted or needed would enter into an agreement ... and divisibility that makes trading efficient. For instance, if you have cows but need bananas, you must [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 07:03:32
DrumBeat: September 27, 2008
Lehman-Backed Muni Gas Bonds Trade for Cents; Deliveries Halted (Bloomberg) -- Tax-exempt bonds guaranteed by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. for a gas-supply contract may be worth little more than unsecured debt after the bankrupt underwriter's commodity unit stopped deliveries last week. Main Street Natural Gas, a financing vehicle [more...]
Date: 2008-09-27 14:11:57
Oil prices recover slightly after steep drop
Oil prices swung higher Tuesday, snapping a four-day plunge as investors temporarily halted their frantic selling to see whether the government's ... a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after earlier trading as high as $93.02. Prices had lost nearly $13 in the past four trading sessions as a widening economic crisis spreads overseas [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 23:07:07
Munger on Middlemen
Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the often-vilified middleman--someone who buys cheap, sells dear and does nothing to improve the product. Munger explains the economic function of arbitrage using a classic article about how prices emerged in a POW camp during World War II [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 12:39:55
DrumBeat: December 18, 2008
Oil drops 9 pct as demand outlook overshadows OPEC NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. crude prices dropped more than 9 percent to $36 a barrel Thursday as slumping demand and swelling U.S. inventories offset OPEC's record supply cut agreement. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries on Wednesday agreed to cut output by 2 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 13:42:11
DrumBeat: December 23, 2008
Steve LeVine - Blunder: A New Age for Russia In August, Putin’s Russia seemed unstoppable, specifically after its five-day war with Georgia punctured the appearance of a new era of U.S. power in the former Soviet Caucasus and Central Asia. Georgia seemed the crowning achievement of a several-year-campaign of projecting Russian power over its [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 14:14:56
Forex Market Seasonal Patterns - Really!
Much of the time, when the idea of seasonal patterns is brought up in trading and the financial markets it is related to commodities. The commodity market, with its production cycles (crop harvest times, winter heating, summer ... was something many traders would probably find extremely valuable, I put together a full 175 page research [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 13:25:57
DrumBeat: November 26, 2008
Russia’s Comeuppance Any international economic crisis afflicts different countries in different ways, but an unfortunate few experience every painful dimension of it. In the current crisis, Russia is confronting virtually all the negatives at once--sharply declining export earnings from energy and metals, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 13:53:17
Four at Four: Unstable Foundations
It’s almost as if the oil contract itself saw the equity rallies of Thursday and Friday as a personal affront, ... , senior vice president at Alaron Trading. “The big question is, ‘Is it just one commodity fund ... massive spikes — oil hit $130 a barrel in trading today [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 11:36:00
How To Register Your Business In The Philippines
What are the Philippine government agencies that you need to register with when starting a business? Remember that it is important to register your business to avoid any legal problems once business operations start. Furthermore, it’s common practice for competitors to check on you if you have all the necessary registrations completed because if [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 23:35:26
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Last year, the Financial Ombudsman Service received almost 800,000 complaints about financial products, a 27 per cent rise on the previous year. Even if we grant that many of these came from trouble makers and idiots, this still leaves a massive amount of discontent with financial services. Which raises the question [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 16:45:24
2008: Annus Horribilis, RIP
I meant to take yet another Friday away from my writing, but as I am researching for next week’s annual prediction issue, there is so much material that begs to be covered that I thought I would put out a short letter with 3 or 4 points as a preface to my prognostications of next week [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 12:42:15
Proceed with Caution
This is one of those "the market will either go up, down, or sideways" posts. Read no further if that infuriates you ... . Others are saying an up close on the first trading day of the year means an up year. "All the bad ... time. The last two years' star stocks are trading substantially below their highs. How [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 22:06:55
DrumBeat: October 13, 2008
Growth Economics on a Finite Planet Over the weekend, I asked Herman Daly, the specialist in “ecological economics” at the University of Maryland, about the recent financial turmoil. He pointed me to a short piece he wrote that was posted on the Oil Drum blog a few days ago and that he gave me permission to post below [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 13:20:00
DrumBeat: October 21, 2008
As Oil Prices Drop, OPEC Ponders Tough Solutions At the beginning of the year, OPEC producers felt confident that strong economic growth and tight supplies would keep oil prices high. When oil crossed the $100-a-barrel threshold in February, the cartel’s president blamed speculators and said there was not much OPEC could do [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 13:15:19
Resurgence of Risk - A Primer on the Develop(ed) Credit Crunch
This is a post run just over a year ago, by emeritus TOD contributor Stoneleigh. It was instructive as much as it was prescient so I wanted to give its author a public hat tip. Both Stoneleigh and her writing partner Ilargi at The Automatic Earth have had a consistently, [more...]
Date: 2008-10-10 14:10:25
4 Secrets of the Successfully Self-Employed
#1 – We Only Have 2 Products: Time and Knowledge No matter how you make a living or who you think you work for, ... to pick fruit or vegetables for a farmer in exchange for money. A perfect example of trading hours ... stored in his/her brain. A perfect example of trading hours and knowledge for dollars. Best [more...]
Date: 2008-09-27 18:14:50
All Is Well In Stepfordville: More On The Pre-Election Chicanery of The Plunge Protection Team
Posted by dandelionsalad on November 3, 2008 by Dr. Ellen Hodgson Brown featured writerDandelion SaladEllen’s post Nov 3, 2008webofdebt.com “The Dow is a dead banana republic dictator in full military uniform propped up in the castle window with a mechanical lever moving the cadaver’s arm, waving to the Wall Street crowd [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 01:37:01
Ukraine Wobbles As The Financial Ground Beneath It Trembles
The medium-term outlook (for Ukraine) is sensitive to both external developments and policy responses. A benign external environment, featuring even higher steel prices and additional FDI, could produce growth in excess of 7 percent, but inflation could prove hard to control under a peg [more...]
Date: 2008-10-12 12:15:13
Oil price outlook from Roger Wiegand: Part II
... up in the commodity market to invest, that investors should look at as a general trend? RW: The two best commodity plays for next year, in my view, are gold and soybeans. Corn and wheat are going to be good, too [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 14:33:58
The Financial Fire Trucks Are Gathering
The Financial Fire Trucks Are Gathering “It will therefore be crucial that you see the world anew. That means looking from the outside in to reanalyze much that you have probably taken for granted. This will enable you to come to an understanding. If you fail to transcend conventional thinking at a time when conventional thinking is losing [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 11:58:29
S&P 500, Gold in Cash
I updated my latest signals table this morning based on yesterday's holiday-delayed Commitments of Traders data ... signal is based on: (1) the commercial traders, who have sat at extremes of bearish net positioning ... in 2009!TAGS: S&P 500, SPX, gold, COT, Commitments of Traders, derivatives, Black Swans, market timing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 18:43:00
Parallel Petroleum Chooses Triple Point's Solution for Fair Value Disclosure
/India PRwire/ - Triple Point Technology®, the leading global provider of multi-market commodity and enterprise risk management software solutions, ... company with proved reserves of 43.8 MMBOE, has selected Triple Point’s Commodity XL for Fair Value ... for its energy commodity derivative transactions. Parallel joins the impressive ranks of Copano [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 09:21:22
Trading Options: Short Term Power Moves
trading options has many advantages over other investment vehicles ... Strangle.Option contracts also provide traders with an enormous amount of leverage. In the US, 1 option ... of 1,000 times the underlying stock or commodity. Our Newsletter Services are backed by years [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 05:01:16
The Global Financial Crisis: A Short Course on Commodity Trading
Due to all the recent global financial strife, DBKP wanted to look at one segment of the global financial sector, commodity trading, and how it fits into the world’s economy. Commodities What is a commodity? Lets start ... products, metals, petroleum, gasoline, heating oil, and natural gas. The term commodity may refer [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 21:18:59
Limit Your Costs and Risks, Some New Year's Resolutions
As investors we cannot generally control the prices of the assets we invest in. We can control only two things: our risk exposure and the costs we incur. All else being equal, minimizing these ensures better returns. With this in mind, below is a list, New Year's resolutions as it were, of things we can all do to limit our costs and our risks [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 21:30:49
WSF Headline Roundup - 1/8/09 - SEC Probes Pequot again; Wal-Mart warns; India's Enron; Frank: TARP aid for munis; Mtge rates < 5%; BOE cuts rates to lowest since 1694!; Intel warns; Lower '09 metals prices?; Other retailers warn; MGM Mirage to cut debt
SEC Reopens Probe of Trading at Pequot Wal-Mart’s Fourth-Quarter Earnings Will Miss Forecast $1bn fraud at India IT group Satyam Accounting Scandal Erodes Confidence in India As scandal rocks Satyam, rivals may pick off clients U.S. House’s Frank Says TARP Funds Should Aid Muni-Bond Issuers PennyMac, Led by Ex-Countrywide Head, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 13:40:42
DrumBeat: September 22, 2008
Oil spikes $25 a barrel on anxiety over US bailout NEW YORK - Oil prices spiked more than $25 a barrel Monday — the biggest one-day price jump ... trading. The November contract, scheduled to become the front-month contract at the end of Monday's session, was trading at $108.80, up $6.05. Crude has gained about $40 in a dramatic four-day rally [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 13:49:59
Bill Richardson Offers An Olive Branch to Clintons?
Bill Richardson Offers An Olive Branch to Clintons? At his announcement event today, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson offered words to help heal primary campaign wounds. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) "There are some who speak of a team of rivals. But I've never seen it that way. Past competitors, yes [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 17:45:37
Stocks pummeled as value plays increase
Stocks are getting absolutely pummeled here, and given the fact that I have turned a lot more bullish on certain market sectors of late, ... to do with fundamentals and everything to do with commodity market liquidity. Proof comes from refining margins. ' Big [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 08:00:56
Here’s How People Make Money With Forex
by Sam Lockwood The Forex market has expanded into the private sector and that means that everyday investors can take advantage of the income stream ... in the US. All you need is a willingness to take the leap into the market. The basic principle of Forex trading ... of trades, the amounts of the investment and the dividend it can compound to make a [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 18:42:14
DrumBeat: December 4, 2008
The Peak Oil Crisis: July 2008 – A Month To Remember Most students of the subject at first thought that world oil production was going to peak for geological reasons --- the inability to find and produce enough oil to keep our annual consumption of 30 billion barrels increasing [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 14:07:31
Stock Analysis: Procter & Gamble Co. (PG)
Linked here is a detailed quantitative analysis of Procter &amp; Gamble Co. (PG) (alt.1, alt.2) ... Avg. P/E Price Graham NumberPG is trading at a discount to 1.) and 3.) above. Since PG's tangible book ... valuations and average the remaining two, PG is trading at a slight discount. PG earned a Star [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 11:30:01
“To the Bunkers!”: Central banks slash rates in emergency “midnight” meeting By Mike Whitney
Dandelion Salad By Mike Whitney 10/08/08 “ICH’ Stocks fell sharply across Europe and Asia last night following another down day on Wall Street ... at one point slumped more than 7 percent. Trading was suspended in Indonesia and Russia where [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 00:51:50
Lowongan Kerja terbaru Agricultural Commodity trading Company
We are a agricultural commodity trading company is seeking for dynamic, energetic and highly qualified candidates for : I.Certification / Survey Supervisor Qualifications : * 3 – 5 years Experience in Surveying and gathering information from agricultural farms/ Worked for NGOs in agricultural sector * Maximum Age [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 13:15:00
In The News Today
Jim Sinclair’s Commentary A hint for the market "Wise Guys ... Gold Shares (trading symbol GLD) climbed to 705.90 metric tons on July 11, before backing down ... . Rising ETF holdings are generally described as supportive for a commodity such as gold or silver [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 18:43:51
Deflation, Deleveraging, and the Stimulus Effect
Forecast 2009: Deflation and Recession January 10, 2009 By John Mauldin Where are we headed in 2009? We will explore that in detail over the next few issues of Thoughts from the Frontline, but today we will start with some of the larger forces which will have a major impact on the economies of the world, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 12:32:28
Market extends losses fall for the third day as heavyweights slide; Satyam recovers
Key benchmark indices, remained in negative zone throughout the day, ... largest software services exporter in terms of sales, tumbled 10.63% after the company said ... of the institution shares in its initial public offering. The company made the announcement during trading [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 15:37:00
