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Sugar-for-Ethanol Purchase Now One Step Closer

Posted: April 9, 2013 at 7:35 am

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has sent a proposal to President Obama spelling out the details of a sale of as much as 400,000 tons of surplus sugar to U.S. ...
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A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Medicine Go Down

Posted: March 13, 2013 at 9:15 am

U.S. sugar growers and processors have long been criticized for taking a disproportionate share of government support for sugar beet and sugar cane crops. And it appears that another substantial ...
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BRIC Shocker: No Money, or Less Money, in Brazilian Ethanol (PBR, ADM, VLO)

Posted: June 1, 2011 at 12:25 pm

In our daily internal reviews of looking for trends in commodities, one trend stood out rather clearly... Cane-based ethanol might not even be solid for the Boys from Brazil. The ...
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Commodities Watch: Copper Stockpiles Falling in China; Weather Concerns Push Up Corn Prices; Silver, Gold, and Sugar in Brief (FCX, BHP, ADM, VLO, CORN, SLV, GLD, SGG)

Posted: May 13, 2011 at 1:43 pm

Today's commodities news starts off with a drawdown on copper from bonded warehouses in Shanghai. There are also new doubts about the US corn crop, and we finish up with ...
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Commodities Watch: The Commodities Flush on Crude; Rare Earths Stumble; Russian Wheat Exports to Resume; Sugar Demand to Rise (MCP, REE, AVL, REMX, NOBGY, RDS-A, CZZ)

Posted: May 11, 2011 at 3:05 pm

Today's commodities news centers on the more than -4% drop in WTI crude oil prices which has led to a broad sell-off in most other commodities.  This was a day ...
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Media Digest 2/3/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 3, 2011 at 4:18 am

A judge said BP plc (NASDAQ: BP) $20 billion fund head Ken Feinberg is not independent of the oil company. (Reuters) Record snow will hurt retail sales. (Reuters) Poor weather ...
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The Good, The Bad, And The Irrelevant: Turkey Prices Hit All-Time High

Posted: November 13, 2010 at 7:08 am

Bad. As Thanksgiving approaches, the price of turkey has hit an all-time high, evidence that inflation may have begun to affect the economy more than most Americans imagine Bloomberg reports ...
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