All Posts Tagged With: "food crisis"
Beat the Recession With These Two Stocks
Editor’s Note: McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) is the cheapest place to eat in the US right now.And 12% Letter editor Tom Dyson says it’s going to get more and more business as the recession puts expensive restaurants out of reach. But are prices going to stay low as McDonalds’ transport and food production costs rise? Only time will tell.
Intelligence Guidance
This week I want to share with you one of the more important tools in my arsenal for keeping up with what is going on in the world. As I’ve told you before, George Friedman and his team at Stratfor are my go-to guys for geopolitical intelligence. Their insights into this facet of the world are simply without peer.
Why This Scarce Resource is Also the #1 Investment Opportunity of the 21st Century
Commodity prices have been going through the roof for years, thanks to a scarcity of supplies and ever-surging global demand.
Biofuels Power Global Food Crisis Talks
Tucking into vol-au-vents stuffed with mozzarella, delegations from 162 countries gathered in Rome this week to attempt to map a way out of the current global food crisis.
Malthusian Catastrophe Coming Soon
There will never be a better commodities buying opportunity than there is right now… read on to discover where I think your money should be.
U.N. Calls for Increased Cooperation to Fight Growing Global Food Crisis
The United Nations announced yesterday (Wednesday) that an additional $20 billion would be needed each year to combat global hunger.
Soros: Oil Prices ‘A Bubble in the Making’
Billionaire investor George Soros has told Congress that the oil market is “a bubble in the making.”
“You hear it everywhere in the press… ‘Oil is in a bubble and it’s all down to speculators driving up the price,’” says Garry White in his Garry Writes newsletter.
“But I’m telling you now, they are all wrong. The real driver of the price of oil is supply and demand. Long-oil speculation is not rising – it’s actually falling.
Put This Emerging Market Tiger in Your Tank!
A month ago, I wrote an article here in the A-Letter detailing the global food crisis. According to data from the World Bank, global food prices have soared 83% in the past three years alone.
High Corn Prices Make Livestock ETFs a Great Profit Play
A perfect storm is gathering that may make investing in a livestock ETF one of the best profit plays for 2008.
According to a report by Bloomberg, cattle prices may rise 13% by the end of the year on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Brazil’s Bolsa de Mercadorias e Futuros. More from this story:
Not since 1996, when corn reached what was then a record $5 a bushel, have cattle been this cheap relative to their primary source of feed.
Policy Makers Lose Appetite for More Fed Rate Cuts
The rising US inflation rate is dampening policy makers’ appetite for more Fed rate cuts, even if the economy sinks into a recession, according to recently released minutes of its last policy meeting. This from MarketWatch:
Surging prices for gasoline, food and other commodities forced the Fed to sharply boost its inflation outlook for this year, but not for next year. At the same time, their forecast for economic growth this year was revised much lower this year, with a rebound next year still in the cards.
Latest News
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- Food Producers Fail to Benefit from Spike in Market Prices10:23am CDT
- European Bank Stocks Rise on Improved Outlook9:34am CDT
- Crude Oil Prices Hit $146… Who’s to Blame?9:18am CDT
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- Iraq Seeks Foreign Investment to Rebuild Energy Sector10:37am CDT
- CIT Group Offloads Home Mortgage Business10:28am CDT
- The Decline and Fall of the American Empire9:16am CDT
- Gas Prices Remain High for Fourth of July Weekend7:49am CDT
- Crude Oil Prices Hit Another Record High Above $1401:26pm CDT
- Speculators Are to Blame for Sky-High Crude Oil Prices12:59pm CDT
- Gold Soars on Iran Attack Fears11:38am CDT
- Stimulus Checks Give One-Off Boost to Consumer Spending11:31am CDT
- Brazilian Industrial Output Slows11:14am CDT
- Qatar Sovereign Wealth Fund to Invest $8bn in Libya11:11am CDT
- June Slump Leads Dow Into Bear Market9:59am CDT
- Time to Jump In to GM Foods?8:19am CDT
