Tuesday, April 26, 2016

"A Bright Side to the Financial Stumbles of Digital Media"

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From the New York Times' The Upshot blog: People who don’t work in the news media might not have noticed the outbreak of angst that fo...

Natural Gas: The Impact Of Spring Storage Surplus On Summer Prices

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Soon-to-be front month June's $2.182 down 0.005. From RBN Energy, April 21: The U.S. natural gas market ended the winter withdrawal ...

Currencies and Stuff: "Greenback Mostly Softer, Sterling Shines"

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From Marc to Market: The gains the US dollar registered in the second half are being pared, but it is sterling's strength that stands...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Sanctions Working Out Okay For Russia's Billionaire Farmers

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From Bloomberg:   Billionaire Farmers Reap Fortunes From Russia Food Sanctions Ros Agro's plan for sale of London stock shows fa...

Fraud and Deceit At One Of The Oldest Art Galleries In the U.S.

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For a large part of the late 19th century the dealers were Knoedler in New York; Agnew's in London and Duveen in both. France had a fe...

"Uber Spends $100 Million to Save its Business Model, But It May Have Just Doomed It"

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So, is Uber just a big price fixing cartel? From Reuters, April 1, 2016: Uber made a fateful decision early in the litigation of an anti...

"Behold, the world’s most powerful millennial"

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Matt Phillips writing at Quartz: Plenty of millennials believe they know exactly how the world should be run. One is actually doing i...

China Stockpiling Oil At a Furious Pace

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From OilPrice: China might be in the midst of another round of stockpiling, stepping up crude oil imports to fill its strategic petroleum...

"Hedge funds buy grains at fastest rate in six years"

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I'm with Albert Edwards, not sure how much more of this I can take . Here are the May corn futures regaining half of what they lost las...