The spike in the price of crude in May is having the anticipated effect of arousing the Congress in this election year. Earlier this week, Congress passed a bill with veto-proof margins to suspend intakes into the Strategic Petroleum Reserves till crude oil prices go under $75/barrel and stay there for ninety days. …
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Crude Oil: Congress Acts, Iran Hoards, RTX Soars
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Carl Icahn: The Pre-Nuptial Counselor
http://multithreader.com/TheInquisitiveMind/2008/05/15/carl-icahn-the-pre-nuptial-counselor/The Yahoo!-Microsoft merger saga has taken a new twist with the revelation that the activist investor Carl Icahn has built up a major stake in Yahoo. Mr. Icahn owns about 50 million shares of Yahoo, investing more than a Billion dollars of his own money. Proxy Fight: Complete Slate of Directors Mr. …
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The New Peak Oil: Peak Demand
http://multithreader.com/TheInquisitiveMind/2008/05/15/the-new-peak-oil-peak-demand/Crude Oil rallied to a new intra-day high of $126.98 today, before pulling back to close the session close to $126/barrel. The trigger for the rally was a International Energy Agency report that the stockpiles of distillates in Europe were down 6.7% in March over the same time year ago. …
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icebergfinanza
http://icebergfinanza.splinder.comAN_ESPLANATION_FOR_SOARING_COMMODITY_PRICES_by_VOX ENERGY_WATCHDOG_WARNS_OF_OIL_PRODUCTION_CRUNCH_by_WSJ WHITER_THE_PRICE_OF_OIL_by_John_Mauldin COMMODITY_SPECULATORS_CAUGHT_IN_THE_LINE OF_POLITICAL_FIRE OIL_HAS_REACHED_A_TURNING_POINT TNE_NEW_PEAK_OIL_PEAK_DEMAND Click for Ginormous Chart Thanks to BIGPICTURE Pubblicato da icebergfinanza | Commenti Tags: shock oil 2008
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Peakish
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2008/05/peakish....that production is ever after declining. This phenomenon is called peak oil, and its arrival would usher in an era of near ceaseless oil price growth until major adjustments in energy use had been made. But is that the peak to focus on? A post at the Inquisitive Mind
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Extra Credit, Thursday Edition
http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/2008/05/1...Why H-P’s Stock Is Stuck: "It??s a well-run, slow growing giant of a company" The New Peak Oil: Peak Demand Chicago Overturns Foie Gras Ban Is "the X-word" Dead? First it was XFRML. Then it was XBRL. Now it's ID, or Interactive Data. Icahn Sends Open Letter to Board of Directors of Yahoo! Related: Microhoodonald's
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Finance
http://itfinances.netMicrosoft: Listen to Your Heart (And Ignore the Bean Counters) April 27th, 2008 at 02:03pm Under Uncategorized Cameron Newlandâ??s Official Website wrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt Microsoft: Listen to Your Heart (And Ignore the Bean Counters) April 27th, 2008 Microsoft surprised no one with their unsolicited offer for Yahoo! in January 2008. What surprised some Wall
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Microsoft: Listen to Your Heart (And Ignore the Bean Counters)
http://itfinances.net/2008/04/27/microsoft-listen-to-your-he...Cameron Newlandâ??s Official Website wrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt Microsoft: Listen to Your Heart (And Ignore the Bean Counters) April 27th, 2008 Microsoft surprised no one with their unsolicited offer for Yahoo! in January 2008. What surprised some Wall
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Google Earnings, Earnings Whispers, and What In the World?
http://seotuts.com/2008/04/20/google-earnings-earnings-whisp...Listeners on the Google conference call could virtually hear the sound of much gnashing of teeth from naysayers who cried doom and gloom this quarter. The news was so good you’d think Quattrone was in the house. Google blew away all revenue predictions, posting $5.19 billion for the first quarter, a 42% increase over the first quarter of 2007 and an increase of 7% compared to the retail and holiday-driven fourth quarter. We’ll have more on what the Q1 call means to search marketers later. (It
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Google Earnings, Earnings Whispers, and What In the World?
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080417-202816Listeners on the Google conference call could virtually hear the sound of much gnashing of teeth from naysayers who cried doom and gloom this quarter. The news was so good you'd think Quattrone was in the house. Google blew away all revenue predictions, posting $5.19 billion for the first quarter, a 42% increase over the first quarter of 2007 and an increase of 7% compared to the retail and holiday-driven fourth quarter. We'll have more on what the Q1 call means to search marketers later. (It's all
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Google Earnings, Earnings Whispers and What In the World?
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080417-202816earnings estimates. Listeners on the Google conference call could virtually hear the sound of much gnashing of teeth from naysayers who cried doom and gloom this quarter. The news was so good you'd think Quattrone was in the house. Google blew away all revenue predictions, posting $5.19 billion for the first quarter, a 42% increase over the first quarter of 2007 and an increase of 7% compared to the retail and holiday-driven fourth quarter. We'll have more on what the Q1 call means to search marketers later. (It's all
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Housing, Credit and the Economy: At an Inflection Point
http://itfinances.net/2008/04/13/housing-credit-and-the-econ...[Technorati] Tag results for finance wrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt Housing, Credit and the Economy: At an Inflection Point April 13th, 2008 Sub-Prime Mortgages have been at the top of the air-waves for about a year now. The collapse of two hedge funds run by
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How much money do I need
http://howmuchmoney.netGary wrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt A number of market observers are now talking about the same thing, with the Fast Money crew specifically noting that Morgan Stanley (MS) was extremely aggressive in booking the $9B+ write-down
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