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Jun 10th, 2009 |
By Ian Mathias |
Category: Politics & Economics
The Dow crashed 1.4 points yesterday, wiping out Monday’s 1.3 point moonshot. Desperate for something beyond these 0.014% “swings,” the market’s putting China in the driver’s seat today… and these guys still have quite a lead foot: Chinese auto sales soared 34% in May, year over year. According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, the Red Nation scooped up 1.12 million vehicles last month, outpacing any nation in the world.
Tags: AA, ADM, BG, Cargill, china, Crude Oil Prices, food crisis, Ian Mathias, investing in oil companies, resources, XOM
Posted in Politics & Economics |
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Jul 14th, 2008 |
By Tom Dyson |
Category: Featured, Financial News
Heavy rains and floods in the Midwest will cut the U.S. soybean harvest by 3 percent and push the farm-gate price to a record $12.75 a bushel, $2.60 more than the 2007 crop, reports Reuters.
This is good news for Brazil.
Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of soybeans. It is also fast becoming the world’s agriculture superpower, says Tom Dyson in DailyWealth. But Brazil’s soy business is heavily reliant on fertilizer – and this opens up a huge profit play…
Tags: BG, FFTL4, investing in agriculture, Investing in Brazil, PB, Tom Dyson
Posted in Featured, Financial News |
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Jun 24th, 2008 |
By Jason Simpkins |
Category: Featured, Financial News
Bunge Ltd. (BG), fertilizer and oilseed producer, said it will buy Corn Products International Inc. (CPO) for $4.4 billion, or $56 a share, a 31% premium to its Friday closing price.
The purchase will help Bunge expand its product line to include Corn Products’ starches, syrups and sweeteners.
The deal will help Bunge diversify its sources of revenue with a “solid cash-flow business,” Chief Executive Alberto Weissar told Reuters. Weissar expects the deal to be closed in the fourth quarter of 2008 with a bump in earnings coming as soon as late 2009 or early 2010.
Tags: BG, Commodity Boom, corn etf, CPO, Jason Simpkins, US stocks
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Jun 2nd, 2008 |
By Martin Spring |
Category: Oil Investment & Alternative Energy
Oil is the energy resource that captures public attention, but its poor cousin natural gas could be the one now offering more interesting investment opportunities.
Tags: Baltic Sea, BG, Bp Pipeline, Central Asia, coal, coal deposits, ConocoPhillips, ECA, energy, energy prices, EOG, EPG, Fossil Fuels, GAZP, Global oil Consumption, HGT, HZBNF, Liquified Natural Gas, LNG, natural gas etfs, natural gas investments, new oil reserves, NGAS, NGSP, oil, Oil Sands Industry, Private Sector Construction, Russian Natural Gas, Russian Pipelines, SJT, UNG, WPL, XEC, XTO
Posted in Oil Investment & Alternative Energy |
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