Evergreen Solar Extends Slide On Lehman-Related Fallout
a second-straight day on concerns about complications related to a stock-lending agreement with Lehman Brothers in connection with a May 2008 ... by Lehman and indexed to something called the ” Lehman Brothers Commodity Alpha Trading Strategies I Excess ... %, to $10.09. Best Buy (BBY) shares are trading lower this morning after the company posted [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 13:46:57
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Mosaic (MOS) Earnings - as Expected
After Mosaic's (MOS) warning in early December and Potash's (POT) a few weeks later [ ... - Phosphates Not Up to Snuff but the 'horde' trading in commodities has basically taken the winds out of my sails in terms of analyzing any commodity company's specific results - it really does not matter [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 14:00:01
Weyerhaeuser Finds No Buyers for its Freighters (WY)
Weyerhaeuser (WY) announced late Monday that it has stopped trying to sell its seven ocean-going freighters ... business has held up better as there is a strong demand in transporting commodities, and an ability ... began, when the stock was trading at $58.23. The company will now have a dividend yield of 3.34%, based [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 15:57:00
Senate Republicans Block Windfall Profits Tax on Big Oil Companies
... work on separate legislation to increase oversight of trading by the Commodity Futures Trading [more...]
Date: 2008-06-10 19:50:46
Reliance-MTN Deal Offers an Opportunity for Private Equity
The proposed share-swap deal between India’s Reliance Communications and MTN Group of South Africa could throw up one of the biggest deals so far ... , a local commodities and futures exchange, and Bovespa Holding, the publicly traded company [more...]
Date: 2008-06-24 10:35:16
Eka Software Solutions, Bangalore, J2EE Lead / Architect
We have a critical requirement with a product development company EKA SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS Pvt Ltd. Bangalore ... . . Knowledge and experience in Commodity Trading / Financial / Risk Management products ... . Currently we are looking for some people on the below mentioned skill.COMPANY: Eka Software [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 07:47:00
CBOT Limits Ag Receipts Held by Non-Grain Companies to Improve Performance of Hedging
In response to pressure over the last year, the CBOT has responded to requests from its regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, ... are the parameters below:Commodity - LimitCorn shipping certificates - 600*Soybean shipping [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 02:59:00
Riding the Chesapeake Waves
Chesapeake As major commodities have been hammered in the quest to unwind losing positions, commodity-related companies have also taken a big hit ... to heavy volatility in the options market of late. Equity derivatives strategist Sveinn Palsson ... than an established S&P 500 component.” Trading in options has been heavy, with activity both in put [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 16:07:01
While Greenspan Slept
This Bloomberg special report may have slipped by unnoticed last week during all of the market mayhem ... of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to study regulating over-the-counter derivatives. In 2000, Congress ... on a company's debt, would grow to $62 trillion from $631 billion in 2001. While the swaps spread risk [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 11:00:00
Carbon Trading: A $64 Billion Economy And Growing
Josh Margolis keeps a grueling schedule, brokering deals between buyers and sellers and forecasting how government actions could affect his clients ... company CantorCO2e, Margolis is part of an exploding branch of finance in a new commodity: carbon ... going to have a carbon trading system in the near future.” He notes that the president-elect supports [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 06:59:27
HOT POSNER | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog Constant ABC presence Rupert Posner takes a break from hanging by the pool in tropical Poland to chat ... available under any future trading system introduced by President-elect Barack Obama. Bankers are broadly ... that could grow into the largest commodity market in the world. Heavily emitting companies [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 21:19:59
Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings
Stock-Net presents custom stock ratings, powered by Caprock Analytics ... on energy trading activities focused on buying and selling futures contracts and other derivative instruments based on the commodities it produces. The Company has four principal subsidiaries [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 13:03:08
Stocks in Europe, Asia Decline, Led by Banks; U.S. Futures Fall
By Adam Haigh Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) — Stocks in Europe and Asia declined for a second day, ... analysts who study charts of trading patterns. Stocks in Europe and futures on the S&P 500 recouped ... led by commodity producers and financial companies on concern the deepening recession will erode [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 13:44:57
CME Owners Bracing For Earnings (CME)
CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) is set to report earnings after the close of trading today. The futures and commodities exchange giant estimates (from First Call) are $3.98 EPS and $644.3 million in revenues. Exchanges and financial companies do not offer guidance, but next quarter [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 14:47:34
Carbon Trading: Crisis In Waiting
Posted by lobotero on 3 December, 2008 The plan, at first glance, seems simplicity itself: by charging companies for the right to emit CO2, ... the birth of the greatest and most complex commodity market the world has seen. Last year alone, permits worth more than £55 billion were traded on the world’s carbon markets – but future trading [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 07:36:17
Lawsuit Targets Banks With Novel Tactic
Some Cleveland neighborhoods have a message for banks that abandon their foreclosed houses or unload them at fire sale prices to speculators: ... go downhill from there: “The vacant property enters the cheap housing ‘commodity’ market, where ... , sometimes for less than $1,000 - the housing equivalent of trading in ‘penny stocks.’ “The vast majority [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 08:11:08
Alcoa Shedding Costs to Bare Bones
Alcoa (AA) announced after the close of trading yesterday that it will cut some 15,000 jobs or about 15% of its workforce ... its unprofitable foil, electric-systems, automotive-wheel and European transportation-products businesses ... recession since the “Great Depression.” However, you would not know this from looking at AA’s stock price [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 18:24:53
Bookkeeping: Closing Mosaic (MOS)
I never thought this day would come - long time readers know that I once considered naming my first unborn child Mosaic (MOS) ... of just about all our commodity exposure by early fall 2008 I only kept 3 names for trading purposes and MOS ... from one of the two names into the remaining but with the drunken stupor that has now overtaken commodity stocks [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 20:44:47
Dogshit Cafe 1/8/2009
Good Morning, Yesterday’s session showed signs that investors didn’t seem to want to wait until Friday to begin worrying about job loss ... , that he’s been hiding company losses for years. Some commentators described this disclosure as “India’ ... of the rest of the session. A small pop in the final hour of trading nudged stocks back off [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 10:20:03
Potential Portfolio Candidates
I've been jettisoning some names this week to make way for new kids on the block; or in some cases, old friends we've once owned ... commodity stocks since HAL9000 trades** almost all of them in 1 group; if oil and/or the Baltic Dry ... you get trounced. These are just day traders paradise for now. Remember, to HAL9000 oil = coal = iron ore [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 18:58:41
THE WEEKEND
Not a lot of exciting stuff in Barron's but a nice interview with Birinyi- whose market expectations are about in line with my own(Lots of volatility but not much headway in either direction). Also, an interesting article on bonds (get out now!) by Andrew Barry. What does Laszlo say: You spend a lot of time looking at various market indicators [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 13:51:30
THE WEEKEND
Not a lot of exciting stuff in Barron's but a nice interview with Birinyi- whose market expectations are about in line with my own(Lots of volatility but not much headway in either direction). Also, an interesting article on bonds (get out now!) by Andrew Barry.What does Laszlo say:You spend a lot of time looking at various market indicators [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 12:45:00
DrumBeat: December 8, 2008
Oil rises on talk of auto bailout, stimulus NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil prices rebounded from a nearly 4-year low Monday as U.S. automakers neared a deal that would keep them out of bankruptcy and President-elect Barack Obama pledged to stimulate the economy of the world's largest oil consumer. U.S. crude for January delivery rose $2 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 13:37:28
Some Opening Comments December 10 2008
Prices of Treasury coupon securities are retreating in overnight trading as the prospect of an agreement on an auto industry bail out, ... to 2.70 percent and the yield on the Long Bond is higher by 5 basis points at 3.10 percent. Equity ... . Trading in futures markets indicates that US markets should open with modest gains today. Reports [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 12:25:44
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Asia Sentinel - Is Badawi Bailing Out his Friends?With barely three months until March when Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is due to relinquish his office, he has approved a project that reeks of an attempt to salvage the profitability of conglomerate Sime Darby and to further buoy the country’s budget airline, AirAsia, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 12:24:37
DrumBeat: December 21, 2008
Shadowed by $200 oil It’s not too early to talk about the prospect of $200 oil. That may sound crazy, because crude is trading more than $100 a barrel below its highs from the summer, when it peaked at $147. I recently spoke to a group of local energy economists, though, and they weren’t worried about how low prices would go, but how high [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 14:12:23
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
Deals of the Day: Is BCE the Next Busted Buyout?
Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity ... to provide labor, parts, repairs, upgrades, improvements, service, software and equipment in a long ... company Rio Tinto, saying the recent fall in commodity prices and worsening world economy made [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 13:47:54
DrumBeat: December 18, 2008
Oil drops 9 pct as demand outlook overshadows OPEC NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. crude prices dropped more than 9 percent to $36 a barrel Thursday as slumping demand and swelling U.S. inventories offset OPEC's record supply cut agreement. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries on Wednesday agreed to cut output by 2 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 13:42:11
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
DrumBeat: December 23, 2008
Steve LeVine - Blunder: A New Age for Russia In August, Putin’s Russia seemed unstoppable, specifically after its five-day war with Georgia punctured the appearance of a new era of U.S. power in the former Soviet Caucasus and Central Asia. Georgia seemed the crowning achievement of a several-year-campaign of projecting Russian power over its [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 14:14:56
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
As The Politicians Battle It Out Ukraine’s Economy Tunnels South In Search Of Australia
“In Ukraine, the evidence is still that policymakers do not quite understand the seriousness of the challenges they face,”. Timothy Ash, analyst at the Royal Bank of Scotland. “There is a burgeoning economic crisis in the European periphery,” Krugman said on the ABC network Dec. 14. “The money has dried up [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 16:06:18
DrumBeat: November 26, 2008
Russia’s Comeuppance Any international economic crisis afflicts different countries in different ways, but an unfortunate few experience every painful dimension of it. In the current crisis, Russia is confronting virtually all the negatives at once--sharply declining export earnings from energy and metals, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 13:53:17
Invest on Stocks or Property?
It’s a very strange economic climate at the moment with stocks at very low levels, property prices well off their peaks, oil prices down, and commodity prices down as well. So if you were looking to invest your money somewhere, which ... account automatically. The major drawback with share investing is that you have to pick quality [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 13:34:31
Friday Worries Arrive Ahead of Schedule
Good Evening: Investors decided today not to wait until Friday to begin worrying about large scale job losses in the nonfarm payrolls report. This morning’s data points from both ADP and Challenger, Gray, and Christmas indicated the U.S. might have displaced as many as 700,000 workers in December [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 00:32:09
What if it's all a Ponzi scheme -- more
Earlier, I grew depressed thinking that the reason all that bailout money wasn't helping right the economy was that the whole thing was a vast Ponzi ... this one is smaller.The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission brought civil charges against a Pennsylvania man accused of running a $50 million Ponzi scheme [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 18:47:00
DrumBeat: December 9, 2008
Oil and OPEC: Can the Cartel Possibly Cut Production Enough? Just how daunting is OPEC’s challenge to rein in falling oil prices? Beyond its control, if economist and oil-market analyst Philip Verleger is right. Mr. Verleger, a former Carter administration official, academic, and energy-industry consultant, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 13:44:44
Alcoa (AA) Shedding Costs to Bare Bones
Alcoa (AA) announced after the close of trading yesterday that it will cut some 15,000 jobs or about 15% of its workforce ... of $450 million per year. Apparently, with the stock trading ... its unprofitable foil, electric-systems, automotive-wheel and European transportation-products businesses [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 19:20:20
DrumBeat: December 31, 2008
The Peak Oil Crisis: Civil Unrest Before grappling with 2009, it might be useful to remind ourselves that there is a dark side to what lies ahead. There was a little flurry in the news last week when it was discovered that the Army War College had released a report talking about preparing for civil unrest in the U.S [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 13:58:02
2009 Top Stock Is Already Looking Up
The lavish praise you see here comes from people just like you.They had a chance to double their money during 2008…making just 17 smart plays.They followed the recommendations of Dan Amoss' Strategic Short Report…bagging gains of 92%…162%…173%…238%…even 462%.And I'm not cherry-picking those numbers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 14:07:00
2009 Top Stock Is Already Looking Up
The lavish praise you see here comes from people just like you.They had a chance to double their money during 2008…making just 17 smart plays.They followed the recommendations of Dan Amoss' Strategic Short Report…bagging gains of 92%…162%…173%…238%…even 462%.And I'm not cherry-picking those numbers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 14:07:00
2009 Top Stock Is Already Looking Up
The lavish praise you see here comes from people just like you.They had a chance to double their money during 2008…making just 17 smart plays.They followed the recommendations of Dan Amoss' Strategic Short Report…bagging gains of 92%…162%…173%…238%…even 462%.And I'm not cherry-picking those numbers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 14:07:00
DrumBeat: November 29, 2008
OPEC freezes crude output quota CAIRO (AFP) – OPEC decided on Saturday to leave its oil output quota unchanged and vowed to take any action necessary to balance the market next month, the cartel's president said after a consultative meet in Cairo. "Ministers agreed to take any additional action on December 17th (in Oran, Algeria) [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 14:01:57
Four at Four: OPEC Gets Burned
This is a situation the market has not witnessed in some time: declines in oil, the dollar, bond yields and stocks ... Scott Magnuson, commodity trading advisor at MF Global. “The perception of another six to seven ... Paul Brigandi, vice president of trading at Direxion Funds. macys_art_160_20081217161108.jpg [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 12:26:00
Four at Four: OPEC Gets Burned
This is a situation the market has not witnessed in some time: declines in oil, the dollar, bond yields and stocks ... Scott Magnuson, commodity trading advisor at MF Global. “The perception of another six to seven ... Paul Brigandi, vice president of trading at Direxion Funds. macys_art_160_20081217161108.jpg [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 12:26:00
YET ANOTHER PONZI SCAM...PHILADELPHIA'S JOSEPH FORTE
Another scam surfaced over the weekend, this time it was a Philadelphia scumbag by the name of Joseph Forte ... . Joseph Forte raised funds from as many as 80 clients and withdrew millions of dollars in fees while ... said. “He recognized that his inability to raise additional funds would result in the scheme collapsing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 13:30:00
Get Buy / Sell Call on BSE, NSE & NSE F&O Shares: 13 Jan 2009
1. Satyam has proved itself as Zhootha and Raju7 has become a Conman from being a gentleman. The real story and Raju motive behind the whole story is as assessed by me and a few pertinent questions which needs to be probed by SEBI. 2. Raju in a deliberate move kept inflating the profit to keep Satyam ahead in the race in so many years but his [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 18:21:56
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