Studies show increased consumer interest in a variety of sports betting market areas
“I’m excited about the future possibilities in our sports betting industry,” said manager Sakamoto Bollacker, ... market will slow acquisition down, stocks will continue to trade hands. News of possible lay-offs ... leadership last year.” “I’m doubtful of a fast turnaround,” said Mechelle Mcevers, a commodities [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 05:01:01
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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
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
OPEC cuts can’t stop the slide
Crude oil is currently at $34.54/bbl, the lowest price in years. The OPEC cuts don’t seem to be affecting the law of supply and demand. Who knew? ... that had futures traders betting on $25/bbl by February. They may have been off by a month ... for the better. With any luck, Hamas, Hezbullah, and Syria will be cut off from their Iranian sugar [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 15:30:05
The Smoking Gun
As Bill Gates closed the door for the final time Friday on his ex-office (Ballmer takes over Monday) the rhetoric about continued one day a week doesn’t match the reality. Whether you believe Bill will have an ongoing role in Office and Windows futures, I bet most of Bill’s input is already [more...]
Date: 2008-06-28 20:28:27
Morning News Dump
I hope y'all got a good night sleep, cause today is going to be a busy day. Here's a quick snap of what happened why you were slumbering: Futures trading: Dow off 375 ... Street's Week (WSJ) ~~~ Intrade now has futures trading where you can bet on what US Bank will fail [more...]
Date: 2008-09-15 09:55:42
Soaring Soybeans
I believe that more investors are beginning to bet on future inflation by returning to the commodity markets. This is one reason why the price of gold has continued bouyant despite soft prices [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 19:03:00
Gold Investments Market Update - Savers Trusting Gold More Than Banks and Governments
Gold fell sharply yesterday on lower oil prices and the recently surging dollar, despite unprecedented physical demand for coins and bars in the UK, ... trading in futures, CFDs and spread betting is an extremely high risk endeavour in the current markets [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 13:18:36
Why is Gas at $4 a Gallon?
Conspiracy theories abound, but the soaring price of crude oil (today around $137 a barrel) is related to four more mundane forces: (1) ... is one of the commodities that looks like a good bet. Hence, there's speculation in oil futures [more...]
Date: 2008-06-09 14:05:56
The Energy-Stock Chasm
In the wake of the shuttering of Ospraie Management’s largest fund Tuesday, ... positions on commodities futures and long ones on resource equities — a bet that didn’t work out, because those stocks continued to decline. “The options pricing implies that these stocks are not done [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 19:01:57
Traders bet LA/OC home prices fall 18.5% more
blog-trade.bmp Traders making commodity-like bets on future home pricing think that the LA/OC market will be further smacked by losses through November ‘09. TFS Derivatives, which makes a market [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 20:17:57
According to Jim Goldman's Jan. 7 blog post, who was the butt of Steve Ballmer's joke about Facebook "friend requests"?
#fullpost{display:inline;}CNBC Bonus Bucks TriviaCNBC Million Dollar Portfolio ChallengeClosing BellQuestion: According to Jim Goldman's Jan ... Microsoft is betting its future on lucky number 7 -- as in Windows 7 -- the successor to Microsoft's [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 19:55:00
The Fed's rate at zero? It's no longer a far-fetched idea
Just a day after the Federal Reserve dropped its key short-term interest rate to 1% -- matching the generational low reached in 2003-04 -- the betting is intensifying on another cut. Trading in futures contracts on the federal funds rate ... , the probability of a cut to 0.50% was 32%. Fedfundschartoct29 At a minimum, the futures market expects [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 22:41:54
Brazil Inflation Rate Rose Most in Four Years Last Year -- Implications of This ...
Inflation in Brazil quickened to 5.9 percent in 2008 (it could have turned worse unless oil and commodities dropped in the last quarter of the year.) ... rate futures fell for a second day in Brazil, indicating that investors are betting that reduction [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 12:25:14
Don't Shoot The Price Messenger, aka Speculator
The futures market may be a convenient scapegoat, but it's simply a price discovery mechanism ... and demand, as well as the rate of inflation. The political theory is that such futures trading ... fundamentals. Thus, $4 gas. But there's no inherent reason to "bet" that commodities will go up rather than [more...]
Date: 2008-06-24 15:39:02
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
Surprise! More Jobs Lost & Unemployment Surges
A: Well, not a surprise actually. Anyone surprised by this report simply has decided to keep their head in the sand, to hold on to hope ... , as the fed futures traders and mass media led us to believe. Today's surge in unemployment, downward ... cut, from bets on a rate hike previously to combat commodity inflation. First the news [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 14:11:04
Speculators Fixing Oil Prices? Don't Bet On It!
I explain why Michael Masters misses the benefits of investors in commodities futures in this new IER piece. [more...]
Date: 2008-06-23 21:41:34
Derivative Bets Gone Bad May Worsen Shipping Industry Woes
When it rains, it pours. Amazingly, the list of possible casualties from positions on forward freight agreements includes not only ship owners, ... in charter rates for ships carrying coal, iron ore and other commodities. The sector’s Baltic Dry Index ... director in the futures division of London’s Simpson, Spence & Young shipbrokers, said the market’s [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 07:26:33
Coping With Challenging Markets By Hedging Your Bets: Financial and Personal
Dear Readers, It really has been an amazing time; I've traded the equity markets since late 1977, ... quantitative ones: when negativity is pervasive, it affects future decision-making, with self-fulfilling ... from a leveraged world to a deleveraged one, as credit is unwound throughout the financial system, from banks [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 12:23:29
Why bailing out AIG might be a good bet
Australian money manager John Hempton offers the clearest explanation of AIG's predicament that I've seen: The core business – the US Domestic Broker Group (DBG) is the best diversified primary insurance ... the present value of future commitments to Social Security and Medicare and yada yada yada). But it could [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 13:44:57
Whadda ya bet the price of gas goes up anyway
Last update: 3:50 p.m. EST Jan. 7, 2009 Comments: 89 NEW YORK (MarketWatch) ... started collecting Cushing data. On the Nymex, February heating oil futures fell 5.1% to $1.5431 ... -- Crude-oil futures tumbled 12% Wednesday, marking their biggest one-day percentage drop [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 22:11:28
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