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Good Evening: As was speculated in this commentary last night, the FOMC did indeed take dramatic action today after concluding its two day meeting ... , and commodities were trying to levitate. Expectations by most analysts were for the FOMC to lop 50 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 04:15:02
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Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (Dec 8 – 14, 2008)
Despite a litany of bleak economic and corporate news confronting investors during the past week, global stock markets digested the bearish fodder with a sense of aplomb. The MSCI World Index and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index gained 4.4% and 10.9% respectively on the week, with other reflation trades such as gold (+9.1%) and oil (+20.4%) [more...]
Date: 2008-12-14 08:22:17
Sheldon Inwentash: All Signs Point to Explosive Rise in Price of Gold
Source: The Gold Report With more than 20 years of experience in the investment industry, Sheldon Inwentash, chairman and CEO of both Pinetree Capital and Mega Uranium sheds some light on the future of gold and navigating the “murky and tricky” junior space. The Gold Report: Sheldon, from a macro overview [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 15:29:20
El Toro Export Orders 15 Heavy-Duty Kenworth T800 LNG Trucks
El Toro Export, LLC of El Centro, California, a processor, marketer, and exporter of various agricultural commodities, ... will be deployed in the Imperial Valley area of Southern California. The seed, grain, and hay processing company will use the trucks as part of their 30-truck fleet, hauling the commodities for distribution [more...]
Date: 2008-10-06 15:58:35
Inflation is going away for a while
By Philip Brewer For a decade, starting in the mid-1990s, ... prices, grain prices--pretty much all prices except the prices of stuff made in low-wage countries ... evidence that the Fed is right. First, prices of global commodities are falling. In just the past [more...]
Date: 2008-10-08 15:14:20
A Primer on Money
Money is critical to civilization. Without it, the capital improvements and complex economic processes are impossible, ... you are a farmer. You want to purchase some shoes. You grow grain. To purchase shoes in a barter economy, you must find a shoemaker who wants some grain. If you want to purchase some eggs, you must find [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 03:56:17
USDA DOE Release National Biofuels Action Plan; UN FAO Report Calls For Review of Biofuels Policies
NBAP top-level advanced biofuels commercialization timeline. Click to enlarge. The US Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Energy (DOE) released the National Biofuels Action Plan (NBAP), an interagency plan detailing the collaborative efforts of Federal agencies to accelerate the development of a sustainable biofuels industry [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 19:02:24
Agriculture incomes are rising and investors are bullish as AgChoices conference nears
Alberta farmers and ranchers will gather in Red Deer on February 11th to discuss new opportunities and ideas in agribusiness ... . Inflation is a stealth tax on savings that can be seen only in diminished purchasing power and high prices [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 05:54:40
Economic history analyzed
The history of a region or people encompasses a multitude of aspects of social life: culture, religion, political institutions, social movements, environmental change, technology, population—and the circumstances and processes of economic change that the region undergoes [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 00:40:00
Farm and Dairy’s 2008 top stories in review
Weather woes Weather is always a hot topic in the farmhouse. In March, an ice storm hit northeastern Ohio and western Pa., followed by 23 inches of snow in some places. Snow emergencies were declared in 60 Ohio counties and homes and farms were without electricity for days [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 08:11:24
What Ever Happened to the Food Vs Fuel Debate ?
It was just a few months ago that the production of bio-fuels had replaced global warming as the most favored scientific crisis of the moonbat ... Luft and Frank Gaffney COMMENTARY: The sharp drop in world prices for oil and grain precipitated [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 04:54:35
DrumBeat: December 12, 2008
U.S. Northeast Heating-Oil Delinquent Bills Top $100 Million (Bloomberg) -- Heating-oil dealers in the U.S. Northeast have more than $100 million in unpaid bills from residential and business customers after fuel prices rose to a record, a consumer-debt service found [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 13:55:16
Jim Wyckoff’s Morning Blog–Wednesday
Wednesday, January 7–Jim Wyckoff’s Morning Web Log OVERNIGHT/EARLY MORNING DEVELOPMENTS The market feature in overnight/early morning ... of holding physical assets such as raw commodities, as opposed to paper assets such as stocks and bonds.–Jim [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 13:16:16
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
Gold, Not so Golden in 2008
Gold It’s been a terrible year for most major asset classes — stocks, real estate, hedge funds, and commodities ... other commodity.” The yellow metal settled at a record $1003.20 on March 18 and has lost nearly 16 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 16:07:07
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Some thoughts for 2009
As we approach the end of this year, it's this time of the year when we review and reflect how the current year has been, ... ). Commodities everywhere literally crashed. Financial institutions like AIG with AAA rating by various [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 06:02:00
Are your Skittles destroying the rainforest? Part 1
Daily Kos: rossl’s diary Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/4/02729/62116/428/679963 Today, I’ve decided to start a series on palm oil and palm ingredients - and alternatives to them. I’m in the process of building a website on the same subject ( http://www.nomorepalm.com ) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 00:27:26
DrumBeat: September 25, 2008
Nigeria threatens to halt energy firms' LNG schemes ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria could suspend the liquefied natural gas (LNG) ... ethanol. That is 100% of average annual world coarse grain trade and 6.4% of global cereal grain [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 14:01:38
18 Most Horrible Things of 2008: Why 2009 is Zimbabwe’s year of Change or Rebellion.
231 Million Percent Inflation With an official rate of 231 million percent as of October 2008, the sky is the limit for Zimbabwe’s astronomical inflation. In Zimbabwe anything called official is a lie! It is the highest inflation rate ever recorded since recording began [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 13:29:36
Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings
Stock-Net presents custom stock ratings, powered by Caprock Analytics. These stocks, which represent a small portion of all rated stocks, highlight a sample of the strongest rated stocks from over 4,000 stocks that are actively tracked and analyzed by Caprock Analytics [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 13:03:13
Video-Rama: Will Markets Bail You Out in ‘09? (December 27, 2008)
Despite a litany of bleak economic and corporate news confronting investors during the past week, ... briefly trading in negative territory for the first time since 1940, indicating the willingness [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 14:29:25
DrumBeat: October 24, 2008
Heating Oil Distributors Fear Tough Winter Amid Credit Freeze NEW YORK (Dow Jones) ... been our view that the value of commodities, including oil, should be determined in open, competitive [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 12:30:39
Inflation is Unavoidable
BY JAIME E. CARRASCO CFP 12.24.2008 What the rational investor has to understand is that the coming inflation is inevitable ... in the agriculture sector where grain prices are showing nice gains off their lows [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 21:09:27
Confirmation of the Role of Financing Difficulties in Collapsing Trade Volumes
One of our pet themes in recent weeks is that the fall in trade traffic, ... as an excuse for buyers to break commodities deals struck when prices were higher. However [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 09:03:46
Baltic Dry Index posts first upward session in 2009
Technorati Tags: Baltic Dry Index,Baltic Dry Indices,Ship Chartering,Shipchartering,Voyage Fixtures,Time Charter Fixtures,Panamax,Capesize,Handymax, ... vessels to carry commodities like iron ore, grain and coal, managed to post its first rise. The index [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 04:29:00
Nix Agonistes
Maybe those payday loan providers just want to help? ... . Poor customers are commodities, deposits are irrelevant, bad credit makes for a good loan candidate [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 14:04:00
Largest Private Companies in the US
... and animal feeders. The company processes grain, oilseeds and other agricultural commodities and provides ... Private Companies #2 Cargill agricultural commodities, food 05 Rank: #1 Headquarters [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 18:36:02
2009 Top-Ten List for Boys Crying Wolf
2009 Top-Ten List for Boys Crying WolfObamageddon and Other Disastersby Edgar J. SteeleJanuary 1, 2009Downloadable audio file of 2009 Top Ten List for Boys Crying Wolf: mp3 audio Streaming audio ( 2.6 mb, 28 min)Latest Nickel Rants:12/13/08 - Billions for Bankers mp3 audio11/12/08 - Dear Mr [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 19:31:00
Words from the (investment) wise 12.15.08
Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (December 8 - 12, 2008) ... briefly trading in negative territory for the first time since 1940, indicating the willingness [more...]
Date: 2008-12-14 12:42:13
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