Tuesday, November 27, 2018

LNG Contango? Floating Storage Shows LNG Market Becoming More Like Oil

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Awww, look at that, all grown up and borderline predatory now. Via gCaptain: Some liquefied natural gas sellers aren’t in a rush to deli...

"Dow Jones Futures: Salesforce Earnings Bullish For Stock Market Rally" (CRM)

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The after-hours report from Investor's Business Daily, 6:36 pm EST: Dow Jones futures rose slightly late Tuesday, along with S&P 5...

"Aramco Plans To Significantly Boost Gas Output"

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From OilPrice: Aramco has plans to increase its natural gas production by 64 percent from the current 14 billion cubic meters daily to 23...

"Italy Seizes $1.7b in Mafia-Linked Property"

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From the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Nov. 27: Italian authorities have seized €1.5 billion ($US 1.7 billion) in asse...

Watch Out Intel, AMD: "Amazon Web Services introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor" (AMZN)

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From GeekWire: GeekWire is reporting this week from Amazon’...
Monday, November 26, 2018

Will Your Panic Room Defend Against Both Poison Gas and Radiation?

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Questions Americans want answered. From Dwell, August 22, 2015: Inside the Modern Safe Room: How Homeowners Today Are Fortifying Their Ho...

Société Générale's Albert Edwards Ponders:"Is The Market Right To Expect An End To Fed Tightening?"

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From ZeroHedge: While the G-20 summit starting this Friday is certainly the week's top market-moving event as investors and pundits w...

Longtime Urban Planner Leaving Bay Area for Sydney, Says: Well that didn't work

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Truth be told he didn't say "Well that didn't work." What he said was, and I kid you not, "Something has gone terribl...

"Brief TIPS Market Comment"

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From Bond Economics, Nov. 25 (also on blogroll at right): Brief TIPS Market Comment The U.S. inflation-linked bond (TIPS) market is i...

"A Chinese startup may have cracked solid-state batteries"

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Here's a version of our battery boilerplate from a 2016 post: Why We Still Don't Have Better Batteries We've had a lot...

Polarizing the Network: "How Twitter Impacts Reporters’ News Judgment"

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From the perspective of a mega-consumer of news, data, and information it appears that some journos have been rendered batshit crazy by Twit...

Cobalt: "Trouble in the Congo: The Misadventures of Glencore "

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A major piece from Bloomberg Businessweek, November 16: What a time to own the world’s most valuable cobalt mine, and to have to fight to ...

Capital Markets: "Greenback is Softer but the Market may be Getting Ahead of Itself"

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From Marc to Market: Overview: Global equities paid no mind to the losses seen in the US before the weekend. After falling for three wee...
Sunday, November 25, 2018

It's Like The St. Louis Fed's FRED Database, But For the World

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From Econbrowser Researchers have long relied upon the St. Louis Fed’s FRED and ALFRED databases for (primarily) US series. Now, Banque ...

Chinese AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking

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From Caixin Global : Cities across China have debuted crime-fighting facial recognition technology to much fanfare over the past year....

"The Big Bet Against Italian Banks"

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From SafeHaven, Nov. 22: The eurozone’s third-largest economy, Italy, is marooned in a deep political and economic crisis, with seeming e...

Shipping: South Korea Yards Dominate LNG Newbuild Market

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A deep dive into who's who and what's what from Reuters, Nov. 20: FOCUS -South Korean shipbuilders' lock on LNG tanker market ...

Bar Fights, Lawsuits and the Flu Pandemic: The War Between Henry Ford and the Dodge Brothers

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From Jalopnik: Henry Ford is practically revered as the patron saint of American cars, and the Model T is his holy text. But it would...

The City of the Future Is a Data-Collection Machine (sensors; IoT; data centers etc)

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From The Atlantic: In Toronto, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, hopes to create the sensor-filled metropolis of tomorrow. In Silicon V...

Italy’s olive crisis intensifies as deadly tree disease spreads

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From the journal Nature , November 13: Containment measures meant to stop a rampant bacterium have been frequently delayed. A vicious ba...