Green Ink: Brother, Can You Spare a Bailout?

paper Crude oil futures slipped toward $53 thanks to expectations of growing stockpiles in the U.S. and anemic demand for oil, Bloomberg reports ... s planned natural-gas pipeline could be in trouble, as plunging natural-gas prices and a slowing economy [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 13:38:50

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Energy Storage in Short Supply

Last Summer, we were reminded over and over how we were running out of oil ... just buy tanker futures. Despite the latest jump, they are roughly a third of where they were six ... ) More volatility coming and more ETF options Bill Ackman: Pershing Square Q3 2008 Letter World Markets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 07:33:28

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

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

Crude Oil Surges; OPEC to Make ‘Severe’ Cut

Crude oil futures jumped to near $48 a barrel on Thursday trading in New York, ... and other dollar-denominated commodities. OPEC, the supplier of 40 percent of the world’s crude [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 21:48:03

Links 6/27/08

The 'value' of protecting whales BBC Researchers study hidden homicide trend PhysOrg Boston Suburb's `Taj Mahal' Brings Ban on Luxury High ... . This is a very good post for those interested in oil and commodities futures markets generally. Antidote du [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 04:48:51

Green Ink: Packaging the Stimulus

paper Crude oil futures jumped above $43 Monday on the back of President-elect Obama’s plans for an economic stimulus package and talk of a deeper ... t have to worry, says a WaPo op-ed: Investing in critical infrastructure and boosting renewable energy would [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 13:07:37

DrumBeat: July 22, 2008

Peak Oil and Hunger Diesel farming feeds the world. But what happens if the fuel becomes too expensive for the farmers? Listen in to WYPR 88 ... , unwanted homes and few options. Huge oil trading loss sinks energy trader SemGroup NEW YORK — A $3.2-billion (U.S.) trading loss on oil futures [more...]

Date: 2008-07-22 13:13:12

Green Ink: With Obama Victory, What Next for Energy?

paper Crude oil futures remembered there is a recession and slumping demand and fell back to $67 after Tuesday’s rally, Bloomberg reports ... .) is sustainable investing. That means an end to investments in “subprime” assets like dirty old energy [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 13:22:03

Good Time To Hedge Against Higher Gasoline Prices?

I just filled up my tank for the least amount of money in a long time ... $1,000 of one of the two major oil ETFs tracking crude oil prices, USO or OIL. (Use a broker with free ... to compensate. If $4/gal comes back, your annual fuel bill would rise by $1,000, but your oil futures stock [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 14:20:17

Money Magazine recommends commodities (kind of)

It's only six percent and it's not really commodities, but commodity stocks instead, however, ... 9%, the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index, which tracks oil, metals and food futures, averaged a 13% annual return. In just the past five years, commodity-driven mutual funds have gained an annual average [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 13:18:00

Green Ink: OPEC?s Impotence and a Nuclear Revival

paper Crude oil futures plunged to $63 despite OPEC’s 1 ... to tighten supplies. More on OPEC’s decision here. Falling oil prices may be pinching big oil ... a $2 trillion piggybank, in the WaPo. Mexico is scrambling to increase production, but new oil laws [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 13:41:45

China fuel price hike may not sap demand

SHANGHAI, China (AP) — The jump in China’s state-controlled fuel prices will inevitably squeeze consumers at both filling stations and grocery ... the oil market may have overreacted to the news from China, with some traders buying oil futures [more...]

Date: 2008-06-20 16:15:11

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

Stopping Oil Manipulation

This morning on Money for Breakfast Commissioner Bart Chilton of the CFTC joined me to discuss yesterday’s charges against Optiver for manipulating ... for futures trading in oil as well as many more commodities), the right to oversee over the counter trading [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 19:22:22

Green Ink: What Windfall Tax?

paper Crude oil futures rebounded above $48 a barrel after OPEC said it would “definitely” cut output this month, but the oil cartel hasn’t yet managed to comply with its previous two production [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 13:09:30

12/31/2008 Farm Bureau Market Report

Click here to view this report online. Grain & Soybean Date: December 31, 2008 Soybeans Local Elevators: (Dec) EAST AR:  935 to 972 (NC) Summ ... Futures:Jan 09up26 1/2at 972 1/4 Mar 09 up 27 at 980 May 09up26 3/4 at 991 1/2 July 09up26 1/2 at 1002 3/4 ... rode a late rally in oil futures to a positive year end close. Weather concerns in South [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 19:40:00

Green Ink: Subprime Renewables

paper Crude oil futures jumped for the second straight day to more than $42 due to violence in the Middle East and Chinese stockpiling of oil, ... reqd.). Cratering energy and commodity prices push Kuwait to nix a $17 billion deal with Dow Chemical [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 12:59:49

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

Green Ink: Obama?s Energy Team

paper Crude oil futures rallied to almost $46 as Saudi Arabia said it has cut production to its official quota and is serious about cutting ... because of the dismal economy, which is trumping the rapid fall in gasoline prices, in the WSJ (sub [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 13:15:10

Bobbys Corner- Open Market 1.7.2009

Bobbys Corner- Open Market 1.7.2009 Posted by Bob Slade on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 8:33am in BOBBYS CORNER-FX Good Morning: ... rates as low as other central banks. Asian stocks rose and European equities fell.  U.S. futures ... packages. Oil:$48.50                        Gold:$859.60    Today we have some secondary data on jobs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 13:33:52

Oil sinks again, but market tries to draw line at $60 a barrel

The crude oil market looks as if it’s trying to make a stand at the $60-a-barrel level, raising questions about how much lower gasoline prices might go. Near-term oil futures fell ... materials. The price then bounced up to $63 by 11 a.m. PST, only to fall back again. Futures ended [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 21:08:58

Green Ink: Cheap Solar and Green Cemeteries

paper Crude oil futures rose above $48 on continued violence in Gaza, and many traders now say supply-side concerns will keep oil above $40, ... -Ukraine natural-gas dispute enters day five, with both countries trading accusations of bad behavior [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 13:08:15

Wednesday morning links

TOP STORIES Vote on Detroit Bailout Nears - Washington Post China’s Exports Decline for First Time in 7 Years - MarketWatch Rio Tinto to cut 14, ... offer to resolve worker sit-in - Reuters MARKETS/INVESTING Gold futures rise for a third session as oil rallies - MarketWatch Questioning the Commodities Super Cycle - Naked Captialism The Shadow Gold [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 16:33:55

Green Ink: Big Oil Waits for Obama, and What About All Those Green Jobs?

paper Crude oil futures elbowed their way above $62 Friday on the back of rising stock markets, Bloomberg reports ... . Environmentalists can expect some horse trading on issues like coal and nuclear power, but expect [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 13:24:40

#19-AubreyJ’s Energy Update Report - Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008

AubreyJ’s Energy Update ReportCrude Oil Price falls below $40.00 a barrel -- again...+ LATEST News out on the Shale Plays.. ... posted on their website today and it goes in part link this...Oil futures slipped below 40 dollars ... downwards: traders.* The LATimes.com website reports... The U.S. average retail gasoline price fell [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 00:03:00

Crude rises

Crude registers biggest yearly drop in CY 2008Ongoing conflicts at Middle East, ... -oil futures for light sweet crude for February delivery closed at $46.34/barrel (higher by $1.74 ... production cut ever.Against this background, February heating oil rose 2.6% to $1.4803 a gallon. February [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 04:12:00

Up or down?

Crude Oil Futures dropped to $39 /barrel today ( see side panel of this blog): no real surprise as recession deepens across the world. Businessweek, though, has an interesting take on speculators [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 09:20:00

How Did The Price of Oil Get So High? And Why Is It Now So Low? The "Enron Loophole"

.fullpost{display:inline;}It's beginning to look like we've reached the bottom as far as gas prices go ... markets and run up energy prices. Olbermann called it "a legalized form of insider trading" which "lets speculators overwhelm trading in oil futures." The result? A huge increase in your energy [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 17:39:00

'60 Minutes': Did speculation fuel oil price?

There was an excellent item last night on 60 Minutes about the role speculators played in the oil price spike this summer ... problem was a result of the commodities markets being "invaded by a new breed of investor." "Approximately 60 to 70 percent of the oil contracts in the futures markets are now held by speculative [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 06:26:00

Oil Prices Hit Eight-Week Low

Oil prices fell to an eight-month low below $90 a barrel Monday on speculation that the spreading financial crisis will exacerbate a global economic ... was down $4.03 to $89.85 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Earlier ... $3.64 to $86.61 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange. Oil prices have tumbled nearly 40 percent [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 12:40:31

Oil jumps 14 percent, products up

Oil jumps 14 percent, products up NEW YORK (Reuters) ... supply this winter. U.S. crude oil futures for February settled up $5.57 to $44.60 per barrel, but down ... on production rates to try to boost margins. As heating oil and gasoline prices are rallying, crude [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 20:53:31

Oil Ink: OPEC Slashes Output, Crude Price Falls

OPEC did exactly what it promised in Vienna, slashing oil output by 1 ... two years and crude futures fell to $63 in New York. With global demand for oil retrenching ... the cartel’s official forecasts. The Washington Post quotes the Qatari oil minister saying “We hate [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 12:24:06

The Petro-Manipulators

The Petro-Manipulators Anyone who lived on the West Coast during the phony energy crisis of 2000 and 2001 cannot help thinking of Texas and two of ... used to tread. Big investors are free to run up oil futures contracts thanks in part to former Senator [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 22:43:51

DrumBeat: July 17, 2008

Oil futures: Know when to hold 'em NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- In the last three days oil prices have fallen by roughly $10 a barrel ... Trading in Chicago, who also thinks there's a good chance prices have peaked. "If I were an oil [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 13:02:18

Selling decimates the markets; gold rallies, T-bill rates dive

Calamity rules in markets today after the House, in a shocker, voted down the financial-system bailout bill ... demand to dry up if the global economy contracts sharply. Crude oil futures are down $9.26 to $97.63 a barrel. The Reuters/Jefferies CRB index of 19 commodities is down 5%. The only major commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 19:36:55

Oil's Well That Ends Well

Well, no shit Sherlock speculation drove up the price of oil to obscene levels, as did the nonsense of "peak oil ... the commodities futures market. At the New York Mercantile Exchange, it's traded alongside cotton [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 02:34:00

[IMG The Nissan UK factory in Sunderland]

Nissan axes 1,200 as car industry cull begins Nissan is to cut 1, ... ratios Black Swan Theory Oil futures A to Z of all 30-second guides LATEST ON... shares and dice Summary of the financial crisis And the latest... - Oil prices - Interest rates - FTSE [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 21:51:19

Pre Session Commentary - Jan 12 2009

Today the markets are likely to negative, as majority of Asian markets have opened with a blood bath and the US markets on Friday closed in red ... so as to reduce the cost. Crude oil futures for the month of February delivery fell $0.87 to $40.83 per barrel [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 04:20:00

MINOR CORRECTION EXPECTED ON THE PRICE OF CRUDE PALM OIL

In My previous article more than a month ago, I have mentioned that the price of Crude Palm Oil Futures is set to rally with a target of RM2, ... Advisor. Click on chart to view enlarged chart.The current price does not warrant a low risk trade [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:39:00

Are Speculators Really That Bad for Commodities Markets? (pfblogs.org)

David Enke submits: Commodity index investors (ie, speculators) sold $39 billion worth of crude oil futures between the July market peaks and September 2nd, a time that saw a rapid sell-off in crude oil prices (see Independent.iearticle).Complete Story » ... [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 11:41:59

Crude drops for fifth straight day

Prices drop by more than 7% on demand concernsAfter rallying for four previous sessions, ... Monday, crude-oil futures for light sweet crude for February delivery closed at $37.59/barrel (lower ... reformulated gasoline sank 2.4% to $1.0841 a gallon, while February heating oil lost 2.1% to $1.4877 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:42:00

Daily Report for Saturday, Jan 10, 2009

Daily Report for Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 January 10, 2009 by Bill Cara After the release of the Department of Labor’s December Employment Report, which was even more negative than expected, there was a broad-based sell-off in equities and pressure on oil futures [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 16:30:43

Fool's Mission By OPEC

Oil has fallen below $70 in the wake of a slowing global economy and massive deleveraging by hedge funds ... and commodity funds that started rolling over ever increasing numbers of oil futures. This put upward [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 19:53:00

Crude Oil Contango, And Not A Tanker To Be Found

Crude oil is currently in contango as futures are trading at a significant premium to spot prices (see WSJ article). As of yesterday's close, spot prices were around $43 a barrel as May futures were trading near $50 a barrel. Unfortunately, to profit from the difference, you need to store the crude somewhere, yet [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 14:52:52

Energy Blast - Jan 1, 2008

The natural gas dispute between Gazprom and the Ukraine is creating upward pressure on crude oil futures, along with the conflict in the Gaza Strip. Official data shows that Russian oil production [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 17:19:17

ForexGen | Oil Falls Below $54 as US Demand Outlook Worsens

Oil falls below $54 as rising oil inventories, bad economic data point to falling US demand Oil prices fell below $54 a barrel Thursday as dismal U ... of $52.62 earlier in the session. Investors tend to increase their holdings in commodities like oil ... to $53.27 on the ICE Futures exchange. Prices have hovered just above three-year lows this week as [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 13:16:13

Green Ink: The Bailout Bails Out

paper Crude oil futures gave up their big gains from Thursday and fell below $45 on worries that the collapse of the Detroit bailout talks will spell even more demand destruction in the world’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 16:15:00

Morning Brief: U.S. and Iraq nearing troop agreement

Morning Brief: U.S. and Iraq nearing troop agreement Thu, 08/21/2008 - 9:54am Top Story Khalid Mohammed - Pool/Getty Images U.S ... of speculators appear to rule the oil markets. According to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ... for the New York Times Magazine. Obama advisors Richard Clarke and Susan Rice slammed "quick-draw [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 13:05:11

Harry Dent, "housing prices have to go back to 1996-2000 levels. That is a 60% drop"

Andrew Mickey, Q1 Publishing, recently interviewed Harry Dent, author of "The Great Boom Ahead" and "The Roaring 2000's ... years, give or take, in the future." "we may see oil bounce back to $80 - $110 and retest its high ... the surprise is going to be a rebound in inflation pressures and a rebound in commodity prices." "I think [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 12:44:00

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