The Daily Reckoning Australia (Free subscription) | yesterday
In addition to the massive human tragedy from the earth quake in China, base metals prices are jumping in the futures markets as China shuts down zinc and aluminium smelters. China's days of being a large aluminium producer are probably numbered.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
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BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
engage the public in discussion on our energy, but who? Very few have any credibility in Washington, which brings up another thought. If anyone has any understanding on the futures markets dealing with commodities, it would leave you with some thoughts. I wonder how many of our Wash. legislators have bought into oil futures, knowing nothing would be done about increasing the supply?...
Mondo Visione (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight (DMO) today released a report that re-examines long-term and recent allegations of misconduct in the silver markets and finds that there is no evidence of manipulation in those markets for the trading period examined.
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Oilseeds prices in the futures market began to fall sharply on reports that states such as Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra would enforce storage limit on edible oils and oilseeds.
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Who will be our next president? If you want an accurate guess, don't ask the pundits. Go where people put their money where their mouths are. Intrade.com (www.intrade.com), for example. It's a prediction market, basically a futures market like those where people bet on the future price of oil, gold and pork bellies. But at Intrade, people bet mostly on politics. The...
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The price signals emanating from the commodities futures market may not be very comforting for the government...
Market Movers (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Mark Gongloff has a rather silly attack on prediction markets today. Let's start at the beginning: John McCain's presidential campaign is doomed -- at least, if you still believe what political futures markets indicate. At the Irish electronic exchange Intrade, on which people bet on election outcomes and other events, the futures market suggests Mr. McCain has a 38% chance...
Leftlane (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Earlier on Tuesday, Nissan unveiled its new business plan — dubbed 'Nissan GT 2012' (G for Growth and T for Trust) — which outlines the company's goals through the year 2012. While the future market outlook is less than ideal, Nissan has set some pretty ambitious targets, and even revealed a couple of future [...]
Liberally Conservative (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Watching the gas prices is an introduction for the consumer to the futures market and it may seem like blood and guts while you sweat out the daily fluctuations. Is this another George W. Bush cause and effect, some Right-Wing conspiracy or is Dick Cheney secretly helping OPEC to energize his bank account? We’re not here [...]
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
... will increase 20 percent. Prices are projected at $5.00-$6.00 for corn, down from the $6.14 July futures contract on the CBOT; $6.60-$8.10 per bushel compared to $8.05 for the July CBOT contract,; soybean oil is projected at $0.50-$0.54 per pound, compared to $0.6128 for the July CBOT contract. Export demand for corn, wheat and soybeans are expected to drop based on high production and lower...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Academic studies suggest political futures markets are more reliable than opinion polls, but that might be giving the markets too much credit.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
New Delhi, May 12: The government today said it had no plans to ban more goods from the futures market and hoped that the suspension of trading in soya oil, chana, potato and rubber would not be extended beyond four months.
Business Times Asiaone (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
THE closure of Hong Kong for a public holiday yesterday meant that traders found themselves dozing off at their terminals while looking for inspiration from other avenues, the main one being the US futures market. As a result, a 40-point bounce in the June contract on the Dow Jones Industrial Average was probably the main motivating force behind an 18.13-point rise in the Straits Times Index...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said that the decision to suspend futures trading is taken by commodity market regulator Forward Markets Commission after much deliberation.
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