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Commodities Trading Needs to Shape Up

Posted: April 16, 2013 at 10:40 am

Over the past 10 years the world’s largest commodities trading houses have racked up nearly $250 billion in profit. That is more than the net profit of Goldman Sachs Group ...
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Big Earnings Drop at Cargill Indicates Caution on Agribusiness Players

Posted: April 9, 2013 at 12:56 pm

Privately held agribusiness giant Cargill today reported that net earnings for the company’s third fiscal quarter ending in February fell 42% year-over-year to $445 million. Sequentially earnings rose from ...
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Cargill Reports Earnings Quadrupled

Posted: January 9, 2013 at 12:51 pm

Privately held Cargill today reported net earnings of $409 million for its second fiscal quarter, which ended November 30th. That’s more than four times the company’s reported earnings for the ...
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Steel Makers to Take Advantage of Cheap U.S. Natural Gas

Posted: December 31, 2012 at 12:13 pm

Low prices for natural gas have led to lower demand for coal as a fuel for electricity generation and to wider margins for chemical products makers. Now it looks like ...
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Firms Approved to Make E15 Ethanol (ADM, BIOF, VLO)

Posted: April 3, 2012 at 7:23 am

The US Environmental Protection Agency yesterday released a list of 20 companies that have been approved to manufacture ethanol for use in blending the 15% ethanol-gasoline blend known as E15. ...
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Cargill to Boost Ethanol Production (ADM, VLO, GPRE, ANDE, PEIX)

Posted: March 23, 2012 at 7:37 am

There are more than 200 ethanol refineries in the US with a total nameplate production capacity of nearly 15 million gallons/year. One of the largest producers, privately-held Cargill, plans to ...
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The Nine Foods The Government Is Paying For You To Eat

Posted: July 6, 2011 at 6:42 am

Over the past 15 years, the federal government paid nearly $150 billion in subsidies to U.S. farmers. It paid $77 billion to plant corn in the U.S. between 1995 and ...
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Six Huge American Companies With Total Revenue Over $250 Billion That Will Never Have An IPO

Posted: May 19, 2011 at 6:51 am

With all the hubbub surrounding the IPO of professional social networking site LinkedIn, along with rumored deals involving Facebook and Twitter, it's worth remembering that there are some companies that ...
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Alternative Energy Watch: More Biodiesel Planned in Brazil; Solar Struggles on Two Continents; So Does Wind (ADM, BG, LNT)

Posted: May 6, 2011 at 12:01 pm

Today's alternative energy news looks at a new joint venture for biodiesel in Brazil, a country that already has much more capacity than it uses. Solar and wind energy are ...
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Media Digest (1/19/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 19, 2011 at 4:10 am

Obama and China president Hu Jintao are likely to clash on economic issues. (Reuters) The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai said regulations which are not enforced are the largest ...
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