2,787 posts tagged commodities
SubscribeFertilizer Crisis ?
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/ comments/ 2008/ 05/ fertilizer-cris.html-
Buy, Sell or Hold Pan American Silver (PAA: TSX, PAAS: NASDAQ)
http://please-dont-take-me-seriously.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ buy-sell-or-hold-pa…Event On May 13, 2008 Pan American Silver reported its unaudited financial and operating results for Q1/08. Company Profile (from Reuters) Pan American Silver Corp. (Pan American) is engaged in silver mining and related activities, including exploration, mine development, extraction, processing, refining and reclamation.
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Buy, Sell or Hold Cameco (CCO: TSX, CCJ: NYSE)
http://please-dont-take-me-seriously.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ buy-sell-or-hold-ca…Event On May 13, 2008 Cameco reported its financial and operating results for Q1/08. Company Profile (from Reuters) Cameco Corporation is a Canada-based company. The Company operates in four segments: uranium, fuel services, nuclear electricity generation and gold.
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Commodity Readings: Food for thought, Looming crisis?, Speculative inflation
http://www.galatime.com/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ commodity-readings-food-for-thought-loomi…Investors Insight: Food for thought . . . it takes 232 kg of corn to fill an average 50 litre car tank with ethanol - enough corn to feed a child for an entire year. It is estimated that almost 20% of total US corn production will go towards ethanol this year and the number is set to rise to 45% by 2015.
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Protect Your ETF Portfolio If That Boom Goes Bust
http://www.etftrends.com/ 2008/ 05/ three-rs-with-e.htmlWhen a particular "boom" goes "bust", what should investors do with their related exchange traded funds (ETFs)? Gary Gordon for ETF Expert takes us back to 2000: the dot-com bulls were running rampant, convinced that the stock prices for those companies could do nothing but soar.
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As ETFs Have Evolved, So Have Investors
http://www.etftrends.com/ 2008/ 05/ how-etfs-have-1.htmlExchange traded funds (ETFs) are such phenomenal investing tools they are actually changing the way investors invest. They've come a long way since they first landed on the scene in 1993. Billy Fisher for The Street highlights some major advances arising from the advent of the ETF.
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series of “bubbles”
http://blog.globotrends.com/ ?p=11Over the past decade, we have seen two major asset bubbles build up, and then burst. First we saw the internet bubble, and then the housing bubble…so, whats next? My guess is commodities. But, the real question to ask is… why are we seeing these asset bubbles rise in the first place?
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What is causing the “commodities bubble?”
http://blog.globotrends.com/ ?p=10One interesting theory (hotly debated) is that the US Federal Reserve is causing the commodites bubble by keeping interest rates so low, effectively a negative real interest rate (after you consider inflation). The theory is nicely outlined here.
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Australia just got more attractive (Stuff)
http://www.8b2b.com/ news/ australia-just-got-more-attractive-stuff/Low-paid workers looking for a big tax cut in next week's Budget could get a 37 per cent chop by moving to Australia instead, according to a report from an accountancy firm.
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Home Foreclosures and Food Prices Up and ETFs Are Mixed
http://www.etftrends.com/ 2008/ 05/ foreclosures-up.htmlReal estate and home builder exchange traded funds (ETFs) are mostly higher this morning, even after foreclosures shot higher in April. The number of U.S. homeowners falling behind on their mortgage payments rose 65% last month over the same month last year, which sent home values down even further, reports Alex Veiga for the Associated Press.
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The Largest Freezer in the World
http://www.contrarianprofits.com/ articles/ the-largest-freezer-in-the-world/ 20…The largest freezer in the world is in Le Mars, Iowa. The freezer is six stories high and shaped like a cube. The local newspaper calls it a "high rise freezer." The freezer belongs to Wells' Dairy. Wells' Dairy is America's largest private producer of ice cream.