Vultures

Nothing to see here, just move along: Regulators had long classified a private Swiss energy conglomerate called Vitol as a trader that primarily helped industrial firms that needed oil to run their businesses. But when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission examined Vitol’s books last month, it found that the firm was in fact [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 14:42:10

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More speculation about those oil speculators

I normally leave it to folks like Dean Baker to beat up on the press ... their businesses. But when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission examined Vitol's books last month ... in oil and a number of other commodity markets. The CFTC separates the holders of those contracts [more...]

Date: 2008-08-22 04:02:06

What’s Investing All About?

Forex trading strategy is also quite different from futures market investing and desired results - other than making money of course - are different ... of stock market investing. Through entertaining anecdotes and practical pearls of wisdom, the book ... . Online stock trading is without a doubt, one of most convenient ways to get into the stock [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 06:02:28

Getting Ready to Close the Books

Trading The last day of trading beckons with markets on target for the worst year since 1931, a year when investors elected to give their money to the government in exchange for nothing, lest they find a way to lose it themselves. Futures are a bit higher, for whatever that means [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 14:12:07

Breaking on the Web: July 11, P.M. Edition

Updated 4:55 pm EDT EPA Decides Human Life Worth Less Today - Seth Borenstein, AP Retired Colonel Criticizes Iraq Strategies in Book - Yochi J ... Block Stricter Regulation of Oil-Futures Trading - Ian Talley, The Wall Street Journal ($) Capital [more...]

Date: 2008-07-11 20:35:07

Population Bombs

Try as he might, Ross "every sperm is sacred" Douthat cannot locate a "key insight" about population growth in Ehrlich's book ... to fall in price unto the end of time, which is why trading in commodity futures is performed ... it is no less than John Holdren, Barack Obama's new science advisor, who claimed to have found [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 16:27:00

Trading the Exchanges: Buying CME Group

CME Group (CME) has lost more than half of its market value over the past three months and the stock price has cratered by nearly three-quarters ... stakes in the Company's new CDS platform while it awaits SEC approval to begin trading. Meanwhile ... at less than two-thirds of book value (0.66) despite its position as the world's largest futures [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 10:47:38

So how’s policy coordination in the G-20 going?

One of the lesser tragedies of this fall’s global recession is that the book I was going to write on the future of global governance is going to ... the round but also the WTO system”…. The outcome runs counter to promises made by leaders of the Group ... trading partners with measures to benefit local producers. Brazil and Argentina have argued [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 21:32:59

Rob's auguries for 2009

I have written predictions before and usually remove them if and when they don't come true. Such will be the case with this one ... downward. Commodity trading is not for the faint of heart. Rare book collecting will experience a surge ... . Nevertheless, I feel led to offer some of my own thoughts for the future [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 23:51:00

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