Trade, Letter of Credit Woes Finally Go Mainstream

We have been writing for a few weeks that the credit crisis had engulfed letters of credit, a crucial instrument in international trade, particularly of commodities (ex oil) and other raw materials. With banks hesitating to extend ... of regulators and international trade organizations . From the Times Online: The credit drought [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 02:24:33

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Trade Watch: Further Confirmation of Slowdown in Container Shipments

We've taken an interest in shipping as an indicator of international trade ... have confirmed a falloff in trade, such as plunging commodity prices, factory closures and even declining ... up this week, but many brokers urged considerable caution in seeing this as a harbinger of change [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 08:16:40

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

Spanish Civil War: Beginnings and Colliding Forces

Women militia fightersThis Maoist analysis of the Spanish Civil War offers an important and scathing critique of the Communist International’s ... in turn cut off trade in key Spanish agricultural commodities. The bottom quickly dropped away [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:41:57

E-Futures International

E-Futures International 3.2.0.4 download Free commodity futures trading software with live quotes and charts [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 18:52:59

CME permits limited AIG block trades

NEW YORK (Reuters) - CME Group said on Tuesday that it took emergency action on Tuesday permitting limited block trades by American International Group Inc in certain CME and CBOT commodity future products to help protect orderly functioning of the market. [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 01:53:02

IFE inc. - COMMODITY TRADING ADVISOR CTA - FOREIGN INTRODUCING BROKER FIB - Home

The International Future Exchange, Futures and options online trading, systems trading, managed futures, discount trading, simulated trading, free re 1 Vote(s) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 01:04:30

Market Monopoly

A bonus Friday afternoon guest post via Macro Man -- a portfolio manager at a London-based hedge fund, he trades global currencies, equities, fixed income, and commodities. Over a long and varied career, Macro Man has been an international economist, a sell-side currency strategist, and a currency options market-maker. His amusing Friday [more...]

Date: 2008-08-29 18:30:00

International Trade Seizing Up Due to Banking Crisis (Updated)

I have been more than a tad concerned about near-paralysis in the money markets and imploding equity prices ... shortages of commodities begins to show up. THE CENTRAL BANKS CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN OR WE HAVE NO ECONOMY ... comes from the Financial Post, "Grain piles up in ports" (hat tip reader Vox Sanus): The credit [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 02:56:53

New world order will emerge in 2009, with U.S. plunging

By Paul Kennedy >Every so often in the history of international affairs, ... , frozen credit markets or the near- paralysis of maritime trade. Yet we also hear cries of distress ... to commodities), and Japan, Taiwan and South Korea (too wedded to exports, shipping, electronics [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 07:48:18

Obama Risks Slide to Protectionism

There are few who know more about international trade policy than Jagdish Bhagwati ... subsidies. But the issue has become even more difficult with the collapse of commodity prices and hence [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 15:01:00

Fxworking - Fxworking.com

I'm not the admin. QUOTEFXworking is a private international membership club, it is not a HYIP-game or HYIP-pyramid ... team, as well as, by highly experienced traders involved in real estate, commodities, forex, futures ... . Interest payouts are done on trading days, and will be made directly to your LR account. Payments [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 03:06:22

Rot in the Apple

René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, founder of investment fund Access International, ... Gramm – a champion of deregulation – proposed an 11th-hour bill known as the Commodities Futures ... be legal under the proposed law – they would be allowed to trade off of exchanges and thus beyond [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 22:52:00

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