Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Commodities: So Gunvor, Noble, Trafigura and Mercuria Walk Into A Bar...

From FT Alphaville:

Dispatches from the 2015 FT Commodities Summit
FT Alphaville is in Lausanne, Switzerland, for this year’s Commodities Summit. The conference is taking place at the Beau Rivage — a hotel so good that John Oliver has even expressed a desire to have intimate relations with it — and the opening keynote from Ning Gaoning, chairman of China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) is about to begin....
...later this morning — the panel everyone is waiting for — FT editor Lionel Barber interviewing Yusuf Alireza, CEO of Noble, Marco Dunand, CEO of Mercuria, Claude Ehlinger, deputy chief executive of Louis Dreyfus Commodities, Torbjorn Tornqvist, CEO of Gunvor and Jeremy Weir, CEO of Trafigura....MORE
And for the tweetstream:

FT Commodities Summit: US oil independence to bust dollar-pegs

Wow.
Just wow.