Archive for April, 2008

High Petroleum Prices – Foreign Currencies Effects – Petrodollars – Biofuels Influences on in Future

As the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC keeps oil supply steady, it has been revealed that the injection of bio-fuel through Corn and Sugar cane could jerk up oil production capacity to three million a barrel on daily basis.
This is coming just as oil prices set fresh record of $118 a dollar yesterday.
OPEC’s crude [...]

Ethanol Blended Petroleum Products – Grain , Corn Subsidizes

Ethanol blended gas and petroleum products may appear good for farmers and agriculture. Yet are the financial subsidizes to those industries a good thing – either overall for the economy, for the consumers or even for those financial sectors? Is the financial emphasis a good idea in terms of economics?
Not so – not [...]

Wisdom from Esteemed Economist – Milton Friedman Cash and Currencies

The third of three episodes in a major natural experiment in monetary policy that started more than 80 years ago is just now coming to an end. The experiment consists in observing the effect on the economy and the stock market of the monetary policies followed during, and after, three very similar periods of rapid [...]

Trading Financial Futures

There are major differences between trading stocks and trading futures. While stories of fortunes made or lost overnight on the futures markets are largely untrue, the futures trader, if using a sound trading system, can usually make more money on the futures market and make it much faster. However, if that trading system is not [...]

Thrills and Chills in the Risky Futures Market

Unlike options contracts that give the buyer the rights ( or the option) to purchase or sell a stock. bond currency or amount of gold futures contracts commit the buyer, who owns the financial contract, to take actual physical delivery of the commodities or financial instruments for a specified price, at some future date . [...]

Energy Costs , Pricing and Inflationary Financial Trends and Trendlines

European should brace themselves for further food price rises as Europe’s agriculture commissionaires have said. High cereal prices have increased animal feeds costs and farmers will soon have to pass on these increased costs to the ultimate consumers. What can the consequences be regarding wheat and wheat prices and pricings ? [...]

Once up and running however world wide global power plants have a distinct advantage of those which run on coal or natural gas , they need comparatively little fuel to operate . Areva, a French nuclear company with international global sales is building even more powerful plants worldwide through the worldwide marketing reach. [...]

Reduced Foreign Currencies Costs

At the moment 439 nuclear reactors in 31 countries supply 15 % of the world’s electricity. Even without a price on carbon, the worldwide generating capacity of nuclear power will probably increase from 370 megawatts today to 550 megawatts in 2035. But if there were [...]

Uranium Futures Electrical Power Surges Currency Flows

             Over the next few decades global electricity consumption is expected to at least double.  At the same time , many power plants in rich countries , built in the 1960’s and 1970’s are nearing the end of their projected lifespans/  Meanwhile concern is swelling both about global warming, and about the Western World’s increasing [...]