A Critical Day For Commodities - A Look At Wheat, Aluminum, & Copper
A Critical Day For Commodities - A Look At Wheat, Aluminum, & Copper Posted December 5th, 2008 by Epiphany Investing Basic Materials Alcoa aluminum charts copper Freeport front month futures market mosaic Potash Corp technical analysis Read the full article: http [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 21:15:04
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Helping your consumers to gain more profits
Consumers are individuals or households that consume goods and services generated within the economy ... of consumers they are talking about person as consumer, an aggregated commodity item with little individuality ... in order to gain a greater budget in future periods. This investment choice may include either fixed [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 16:49:03
iBankCoin Spits on You
Why do you people bother blogging? No one reads your shit anyway. Let your readers come to my site and they will never go back to yours ... . There will be more bodies. I know oil is a very popular investment for the internet type these days. Back ... the ramifications of the credit squeeze and declining commodity prices, no doubt. COP has over 22 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 03:16:40
How Much Did Harvard Lose?
by Andrew GillenLost among the holiday shuffle was a piece in the Huffington Post (HT: Felix Salmon) ... physical commodities. Such "real assets" plunged in value, if they could be sold, much more severely ... : by investing in risky, illiquid assets (including shares in hedge funds who did same). Their ability [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 17:05:00
Byron Wien’s ten surprises for 2009
Dead on target at the beginning of the new year, 75-year-old Byron Wien again published his annual list of surprises to expect in 2009. Wien, chief investment strategist of Pequot Capital and one of Wall Street’s best known veterans ... /demand balance. Other commodities also rise, some doubling from their 2008 lows. Natural gas goes [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 08:09:07
AAA Spread Tightening a Sure 2009 Bet...
I wrote back on 18th December in Corporate Bonds: Discounting Depression that investment grade corporate bonds were a cheaper and lower risk play ... other markets like equities and commodities, and is a good each-way bet in what will be another volatile year for markets. Sphere: Related Content [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 12:14:00
Rigour? In a blog?
Brad DeLong has an impressively clear (although, or perhaps because, a bit technical) piece on risk appetite and fundamental values of assets ... of asset prices are the money-metric values that the costate variables associated with the commodities ... for the limited amount of savings capital available in the world? If I, as a productively investing busin [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 03:23:44
The Shortest Investment Book Ever by James O’Donnell
... in commodities or buying options and futures, but for 99% of individuals that stuff won’t matter [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 11:30:02
5 Legendary Investors Whom You Are Sure to be Interested In
We like to highlight the people that do exceptionally well in every industry. In sports, there are all-stars and in Hollywood, there are super stars ... in 1980 as he made bold calls such as predicting China’s huge growth, the rise in commodity price ... . Recommended Books By Jim Rogers: A Gift to My Children: A Father’s Lessons for Life and Investing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 14:00:57
What are Hedge Funds
In the securities world, the term "Hedge Fund" does not necessarily imply any use of "hedging" as commonly understood; for example where commodity traders use options to "hedge" a commodity position. Presently, in the securities world the term "hedge fund" refers to any type of Private Investment Company operating [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 22:27:00
I’m Investing - Now What?
The good news is that there are nearly an unlimited number of ways and strategies to be successful in investing and managing your money ... . Regardless of any sentimental meaning you may attach to it, it represents a commodity of value only. Tip #2: Don’t buy or sell from a broker on the last two days of a calendar month. If you don’ [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 02:31:09
All signs point to explosive rise in the gold price: Part 1
“Downside protection and potential extraordinary upside participation” With more than 20 years of experience in the investment industry, ... s got to stimulate. Is it going to be enough and what will that mean for commodities? Or, if it doesn ... it was in ’02, but there’s less gold around, ostensibly because the rise in all the other commodities [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 16:28:26
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
Inc Magazine Individual Investors Email List
42,430 Total Investors The Inc. Magazine Individual Investors Email list consists of entrepreneurs who play an active role in their personal ... for their financial futures. These savvy investors spread their investments across a wide spectrum in order to diversify their portfolios. Stocks, bonds, CDs, mutual funds, real estate, commodities [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 08:36:15
China’s FDI inflow seen at $95 bln in 2008 -minister
China will attract an estimated $95 billion of foreign direct investment (FDI) this year, Minister of Commerce Chen Deming said on Tuesday ... 22, 2008 — Aussie advances on firmer commodities, gains muted August 13, 2008 — Free Forex Trading ... Street Gains; Oil Extends Losses December 22, 2008 — HK dollar falls slightly, interbank rates ease [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 05:55:42
MortgageNewsClips: Bay Area, Dodging Inflation, Battle Plan, Gary Gensler is Back, Run Away Fast, Zubin’s Charts, Felix Salmon on Rates, Lumber, Desperate, On Refis, PMI Review, Different CRA Views
Median price for Bay Area homes down 44 percent from year ago - Eve Mitchell - San Jose Mercury ... to Commodities Post - By EDMUND L. ANDREWS - Nine years ago, Gary Gensler played a central role in fending off ... Investment Group ———— zubin-chris_mayer zubin portfolio 6 interesting charts [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 19:18:32
Philippines: Govt. subsidy program to offset rice price hikes.
This is from the daily Tribune.The price of rice in the Philippines is almost half of what it was at its peak. However as the report projecting prices notes there is less investment globally in inputs due ... in demand. As a staple, rice demand is less elastic than with many other commodities. Also [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 14:40:00
Investment Banks, By the Numbers
At the beginning of 2007 the five major investment-banking firms (not including those, such as J.P. Morgan Chase & Co ... tons, both on bets in currency and commodity markets, and on the trading of those assets ... billion Merrill Lynch financial advisors, second quarter 2008: 16,690 Bank of America financial [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 15:09:09
Madoff's "Woman on Wall St."
NYTimes reports:VIENNA — With an aggressive style that stood out in the staid world of Austrian banking even more than her bouffant red wig, ... last week.Embarrassment from investing heavily with Mr. Madoff could explain wanting to disappear from public view ... . (Russia’s richest men have been especially strapped as commodity prices and their stock [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 08:40:00
Live-Blogging Goldman Sachs’ Fourth-Quarter Earnings
We nominate this for the securities industry’s saddest sentence: “For the period ended Nov. 30, Goldman reported a net loss of $2 ... of long-term investing decisions…we entered into these decisions with a full understanding of fair-value implications…” 11:09: M&A, rates, currencies, commodities and asset management were [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 16:26:31
Live-Blogging Goldman Sachs’ Fourth-Quarter Earnings
We nominate this for the securities industry’s saddest sentence: “For the period ended Nov. 30, Goldman reported a net loss of $2 ... of long-term investing decisions…we entered into these decisions with a full understanding of fair-value implications…” 11:09: M&A, rates, currencies, commodities and asset management were [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 19:11:00
Tell Me About Forex Scalping
Trading on the Foreign Exchange market, or forex, has become increasingly popular due in no small part to its sheer size and volume of trading ... Forex investment strategies and at its simplest involves anticipating short-term movements ... in the Forex. Just as with equities or commodities traders, investors in the Forex need some type [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 18:58:00
Now The US Steel Industry Is In Collapse and Looking For A Massive Government Bailout Of $1 Trillion
bangheadagainstwall To stimulate demand for the key commodity, a report said Friday ... , The New York Times reported. Industry executives are pleading for a huge public infrastructure investment [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 21:36:58
Golden Ratios
Carolyn Cui reports: Precious metals ratios are far from a sure-fire indicator ... , gold tends to stand out as an ultimate store of value. Commodity investors often look at these ratios for clues, as hard assets such as oil, gold or wheat don’t enjoy handy investing yardsticks [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 17:38:15
Weekly Futures Positions Review - November 30, 2008
Top posts from the past week: Are Any Grains Worth Buying At These Prices? ... are the most attractive investment opportunity I see today. They are actually trading below the prices they were at when the entire bull market in commodities began. Other existing positions I've got [more...]
Date: 2008-11-30 21:31:00
The Fed Shouldn’t Escape Blame for Investment Bubbles
If you haven’t noticed, gas prices are back down ... the credit mania and then compounded the felony with a commodity bubble and run on the dollar whose ... can be a problem. But if we want more stable markets in the future, we need to be sure to address [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 13:16:17
Not an optimal investment allocation
Bob Greer and John Cavalieri at Pimco have put together an interesting article that drives yet another stake into the investment thesis favored by ... two-thirds of their retirement money to stocks and continuing to do so indefinitely into the future ... commodity prices as well. We saw it most obviously at the gas pump, but in fact a very broad range [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 15:39:00
HOW OBAMA WOULD STIFLE DRUG INNOVATION
The pharmaceutical industry has begun to give up on developing drugs for routine medical problems in favor of discovering "specialty" ... controls -- based on a view of medical care as a commodity to be purchased at the lowest price, with little ... economically pernicious effect of price and access controls is how they distort future investment decisions [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 13:35:56
Morgan Stanley eyes to own Brazilian ethanol plant
Sao Paulo, July 10 (IANS) US investment banking giant Morgan Stanley has said it wants to expand its presence in the alternative fuel industry from ... through its commodities trading desk, EFE reported Thursday quoting business website Valor Online ... trading to production and is negotiating to buy stake of a planned sugarcane-based ethanol plant [more...]
Date: 2008-07-10 11:39:10
Introducing GalaTime 5L Virtual Portfolios
I’ve been mulling over some new initiative in the area of portfolio management for retail investors in India ... . Q: Is this an investment / trading game? Is this an online tool that allows me to track ... ; these include - stocks, stock & index futures & options, ETFs, commodity futures &amp [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 14:18:04
THE DEMON ECONOMIST OF MAIDA VALE; AMERICA SINGING "DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY" ALL THE WAY TO THE COLLAPSE
I have written extensively about both the commodity shock on Terra of the past summer and the deep decline in the price of petrol at the pump in the ... or investment. The class jealously that revolves around yachts and furs and diamond necklaces would [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 11:37:00
Bookkeeping: Tax Loss Selling in ReneSola (SOL) and Life Sciences Research (LSR)
Well unlike most mutual funds and institutions if you invested in this (future) mutual fund you will see what I do every week ... of consolidation in this space as it is a commodity but I thought it would come later - 2010/2011 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 18:45:42
Friday morning links
TOP STORIES Payrolls plunge by stunning 533,000 in November - MarketWatch Auto bailout could be tied to gov't-run overhaul - AP Fake inflation ... no silver bullet - CNN/Money MARKETS/INVESTING Oil near 4-year lows on dire economic news - AP Commodity Fundamentals Are ‘Unimpaired,’ Rogers Says - Bloomberg High Anxiety About High Yield - NY [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 14:01:20
A critique of the market as optimal system, and remedies for the meltdown
Why is it that: “The need for a pervasive, permanent role of government in directing investment also emerges from more recent studies of economic ... outcomes rests on Pareto optimality, an absurdly narrow definition of social goals. A proposal ... competition only leads to the right outcomes if everything that matters is a marketable commodity [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 12:48:22
Tuesday morning links
TOP STORIES ‘Bernanke-san’ Signals Policy Shift, Evoking Japan Comparison - Bloomberg Schwarzenegger declares emergency - CNN/Money States Want $176 ... for a bailout - LA Times Goldman may post $2 billion loss - report - CNN/Money MARKETS/INVESTING Oil ... - Raymond James Slowdown in China hits commodities badly - Commodity Online ECONOMY Economic Signs [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 15:14:14
Fed?s Stern Optimistic on Treasury Plan to Buy Assets
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Gary Stern said Thursday he is “cautiously optimistic” about the recently passed Treasury plan to buy ... -related investments from the market in a bid to get the financial system trading openly again. Stern ... of inflation, absent a resurgence in energy and other commodity prices.” He added that inflation [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 10:52:00
Sitka Pacific 3rd Quarter Results
Regular readers of this blog know that I am an investment advisor representative for Sitka Pacific ... we have witnessed for a very long time. The equity markets declined over 9% for the month, commodities [more...]
Date: 2008-10-14 10:09:00
Non-Stock Investment Options
I discovered this very informative article, “No-Stock Portfolio, ... building I’ve ever worked in for the last 5 years (well, except my house). Energy: Specifically funds ... I was in Vanguard’s tax exempt money market but the yield on that baby pretty much dried up. Gold: Another commodity [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 16:15:30
How To Make Money through Investment
Listen to this article As a result of the global financial crisis ravaging the world, it is pertinent to proffer solutions to this breakdown ... that could be spent on more fruitful activities, like making money). Look into equity mutual funds. Watch the fees. Look for good long term funds with low expenses. Index funds are a good starting [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 16:22:00
Sunday morning links
TOP STORIES White House assessing options to aid carmakers - AP 'All Just One Big Lie' - Washington Post China plans to increase money supply 17% in ... MARKETS/INVESTING Wall Street focus: Autos and the Fed - CNN/Money Comex said warning brokers about December gold squeeze - GATA Commodity Boom Is So Over - Washington Post Comparison of 1928-32 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-14 13:53:50
Mining Exploration Result, Demand and Trade Review : Metal Demand May Be Slow Hope Runs High for Gold
By now the global financial crisis has hopefully taught investors that just like property prices, metal prices do not always go up ... , often a year or so apart. Last year bulk commodities such as iron ore, coal and manganese proved ... agreed, advising investors to go long on gold and short on bulk commodities and base metals. Boom times [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 16:52:18
Tips for Improving your Investing
Many investors -- especially beginning investors -- want tips for improving their investing. There are a lot of tools out there ( ... strategies. However, Stock Trading To Go has some very basic and active things you can do in order ... as funds, bonds, currencies, options, commodities, futures and other opportunities might [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 19:38:01
Sovereign Wealth Funds Shun Global Investing amid Crisis
Only 12 months ago pundits claimed most emerging markets would be immune from the credit crisis engulfing the United States and Europe ... constituent of the four commodity indexes I track (CRB, GSCI, Rogers and AIG-Dow Jones), has tanked ... or Sovereign Wealth Funds. That picture is now dampened by rapidly compressing asset values [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 14:17:56
Did Speculation Fuel Oil Price Swings?
(CBS) About the only economic break most Americans have gotten in the last six months has been the drastic drop in the price of oil, which has fallen even more precipitously than it rose. In a year's time, a commodity that was theoretically priced according to supply and demand doubled from $69 a barrel to nearly $150 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 15:10:00
Thursday morning links
TOP STORIES Murky future for auto rescue amid GOP opposition - AP Foreclosure Storm Will Hit U.S ... , Companies - Washington Post Commodity crash tests faith in supercycle - Telegraph U.K.'s door open ... , SafeHaven MARKETS/INVESTING Global oil demand to shrink - report - CNN/Money OIEA sees oil demand [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 13:40:49
2009 Top Stocks: A Bull with Growing Horns
In trading earlier this week, several water companies got off to a great start. Midway through trading on Monday, Northwest Pipe (NASDAQ: NWPX), Layne Christensen (NASDAQ: LAYN), Gorman Rupp (AMEX: GRC), and Badger Meter (NYSE: BMI) were all showing sizable chunks of green.Yet other water industry stalwarts, like Consolidated Water ( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 08:10:00
2009 Top Stocks: A Bull with Growing Horns
In trading earlier this week, several water companies got off to a great start. Midway through trading on Monday, Northwest Pipe (NASDAQ: NWPX), Layne Christensen (NASDAQ: LAYN), Gorman Rupp (AMEX: GRC), and Badger Meter (NYSE: BMI) were all showing sizable chunks of green.Yet other water industry stalwarts, like Consolidated Water ( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 08:10:00
2009 Top Stocks: A Bull with Growing Horns
In trading earlier this week, several water companies got off to a great start. Midway through trading on Monday, Northwest Pipe (NASDAQ: NWPX), Layne Christensen (NASDAQ: LAYN), Gorman Rupp (AMEX: GRC), and Badger Meter (NYSE: BMI) were all showing sizable chunks of green.Yet other water industry stalwarts, like Consolidated Water ( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 08:10:00
Economic Potpourri December 26, 2008
The barrage of noteworthy economic news continues unabated. I took a lot of time off posting Christmas Eve and Christmas. Here are a few headline news reports of interest from the past couple days that have been stacking up.MetLife Drops as Commercial Mortgage Defaults LoomMetLife Inc. and Prudential Financial Inc., the largest U.S [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 11:26:00
Ship Industry Hits Skids
An investment adviser points out that the world-wide shipping industry is taking an economic pounding here: ... ocean-going cargo vessel available for shipping dry bulk commodities. Six months later that same tanker ... : Ocean shipping costs have plunged to 22-year lows, skewing global grain-trading patterns to the point [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 13:22:56
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