Thursday, April 26, 2012

Nasty: "EPA Official Not Only Touted 'Crucifying' Oil Companies, He Tried It" (RRC)

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From Forbes: Confirming what many in the industry long suspected, a video surfaced Wednesday in which Al Armendariz, an official at the E...

A Hidden Potential Problem for Solar ETF's (beside all the others) TAN; KWT

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From MarketWatch: One Problem For Solar ETFs No One Is Talking About The ugly fate of solar stocks and the corresponding ETFs has be...

Signposts: "Natural gas surpasses coal in Southern Co.'s energy mix" (SO)

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The transition is happening but not nearly fast enough to save the soon-to-be-new-front-month June futures. From the Atlanta Journal-Consti...

Government Inflation Figures: The stupid, it burns!

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A fine little rant from Market Ticker: Look! More Advocacy Of Fraud! (Chained CPI) Sadly, Congress and the White House seem incapable o...

Natural Gas: Advice to the Shorts

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We are having our second largest snapback reaction in the futures since the decline began in the $2.80 area. After getting down to $1.902 ...

"PotashCorp cuts guidance after slow start to 2012" (POT)

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From Agrimoney: A worse-than-expected start to 2012 has prompted PotashCorp cut its guidance for profits, and sales, over the full year...

Has Obama Stacked the Fed? All The President's Central Bankers

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Not as audacious as Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court but potentially just as powerful. From the CFR's Foreign Policy Maga...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

"Marvel At The Derivative On Its Derivatives That Credit Suisse Wrote To Itself "

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From DealBreaker: Financial news is very serious business and you should probably fret more than you do about the economy and the bankste...

Arab Spring: Egypt’s Parliament Poised to Pass Legislation Allowing Necrophilia

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From Al Arabiya News via Improbable Research: Necrophilia might soon become specifically legal in Egypt, within specific bounds, according...

Manufacturing- "The third industrial revolution"

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Why do I think the next secular bull market will be based on some combination  of materials science, advanced manufacturing and nanotec...

Worth Noting - High Yield Breaks Out to Upside (JNK)

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Fred Sanford : Ow my heart. I think I'm having a heart attack. You hear that Elizabeth I'm coming to join you honey. Your dummy son...

Goldman Sachs on Saudi Oil Production

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Although not as murky as the silver or guar markets, figuring out what the giant oil producers and traders are up to sometimes reminds me of...

"Five Hedge Fund Managers Who Lost Their Superstar Status"

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From Institutional Investor: Oh, how the mighty have fallen. One of the more interesting things to learn from the newly required AD...

"No More Nouveau Bordeaux for Nouveau Riche"

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From the WSJ's Wealth Report: One of the more rarefied markets of the rich is the “ en primeur ” system, also known as the wine future...

"$1.6 billion in missing MF Global funds traced"

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From CNN Money: Investigators probing the collapse of bankrupt brokerage MF Global said Tuesday that they have located the $1.6 billion i...

"Marc Faber Discusses Imminent Market Crash, a Recession in China, Says Fiscal Condition of US a "Catastrophe""

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Other than that... From MISH'S Global Economic Trend Analysis: Faber says China faces a recession defined as a slowdown to 3%. Inte...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

"Tim Geithner’s Father-In-Law Sounds Like A Delightful Drunk* "

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From DealBreaker: Make what you will of this somewhat bizarre story but our takeaway is that the Treasury Secretary’s FIL would make a ...

"Jim Rogers: Lots of Growth Left for Agriculture Investors"

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Here's MarketBeat: Agricultural prices have been rallying for several years now, but Jim Rogers thinks there’s still room to grow. Th...

"IBM Call Buyers Foresee New All-Time Highs Ahead"

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Big Blue closed at $200.00, up a bit on the day but below the $210.69 all time high. From Phil's Stock World: International Business...

"Credit Suisse cuts forecasts for potash prices" (POT; MOS; MOO)

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From Agrimoney: Credit Suisse questioned potash groups' hopes of a revival in potash demand by forecasting a drop in world shipme...