Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Starbucks Corp. said raw-material costs may ease in the second half of the year. Chief Financial Officer Troy Alstead said today on a conference call with analysts that the company took advantage of a recent drop in arabica-coffee prices to “lock in” some supplies.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Starbucks - Commodities to ease in 2nd half
Soros says Italian bonds are a fantastic buy!
George Soros explains why his fund bought 2 billion dollars of MF Global Italian bonds - and why he would buy even more. The secret sauce: Deflation. That, Soros tells Chrystia Freeland, will give Italian bonds a fantastic yield, even though it shows that financial markets aren't functioning properly.
Super-frack? Who do you think you are? Rick James?
Few energy industry practices have sparked more controversy than hydraulic fracking. First, wells are drilled horizontally below the surface, allowing a single bore or pathway to reach vertical pockets of oil and natural gas trapped between formations of shale and other rock. Then high-pressure jets of water, sand, and chemicals are pumped into the ground to create fissures through the rock so oil can seep out and be retrieved. Regulators, environmentalists, and academics are studying whether the practice can damage the environment.
Euro holding at 5-week high
(Reuters) - The euro traded unchanged against the dollar on Thursday, after earlier hitting a five-week high, as moves to cover bets against the currency petered out as a Fed induced rally faded.
How to buy a state
Harold G. Hamm is lost. The 66-year-old founder, chairman, and chief executive of Continental Resources (CLR) is steering a Chevy Tahoe past sunflower fields and grazing cows in western North Dakota. He’s found millions of barrels of oil in these low prairie hills, but on this bright fall day, he’s having trouble locating one of his own drilling rigs.
Greek Default Unavoidable
Negotiations over how to shrink Greece’s unaffordable government debt make the brinkmanship over the U.S. debt ceiling last summer look simple. In the U.S., almost everyone agreed that default would be disastrous. In Greece, default is probably unavoidable. The battle is over whether it happens gently, in what is known as a “consensual restructuring,” or chaotically, in what is known as “all financial hell breaks loose.”
Crude Oil Self-Sufficiency By 2030 for North America
Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- North America may be self-sufficient in oil by 2030 because of growing U.S. domestic production and Canadian output, according to Julian Lee, a senior energy analyst at the Centre for Global Energy Studies.
Barcap's commodities investments lowest in nine years. A contrarian indicator?
(Reuters) - New investments in commodities almost ground to a halt last year, Barclays Capital said on Thursday, with inflows into the sector dropping almost 78 percent from 2010 to the lowest in nine years.
Volatility dropping on crude options
Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil options volatility fell as underlying futures rose for a second day after the Federal Reserve pledged to maintain low interest rates into late 2014. Implied volatility for at-the-money options expiring in March, a measure of expected price swings in futures and a gauge of options prices, was 27.7 as of 3 p.m. in New York, down from 28.8 yesterday.
It all comes back to commodities! Here's a limited risk way to trade them.
Almost every equity play has an underlying commodity component that drives it. The stocks that you invest in are heavily influenced by the finite global resources and financial commodities as much as anything else. It ALL Comes Back To Commodities!!!
Dollar down, bonds up on speculation Fed will be bond buyer
Treasuries and commodities rose for a second day after the Federal Reserve yesterday pledged to keep interest rates low and said it is considering more bond purchases. U.S. stocks reversed early gains, while Europe’s benchmark equity index entered a bull market.
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