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Closing Bell for Thursday on Wall Street: Lower Opening and Close Despite Jobs Report

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 4:07 pm

U.S. equity markets opened slightly lower this morning after the Bank of England left its key interest rate and asset purchase program unchanged (more coverage here). In Asia, China’s consumer ...
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Closing Bell for Wednesday on Wall Street: Markets Open Lower, Stock Prices Rise All Day

Posted: May 8, 2013 at 4:05 pm

U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning on relatively little economic data. In Europe, Germany reported that industrial production rose 1.2%, while a house price index in the U.K.rose 1.1% ...
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Corn Field

Corn Brings the Death of Food Inflation

Posted: May 6, 2013 at 1:10 pm

If you have been paying attention to consumer prices and producer prices of late, the drop in the price of oil and other energy related items has been keeping a ...
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Biofuel Cans

Brazil Slashes Ethanol Tax

Posted: March 11, 2013 at 8:50 am

Brazil is the world’s largest producer of ethanol, which the country’s producers make from sugar cane stalks. The bad news is that lower petroleum prices have cut demand for ethanol ...
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Alternative Energy and Cleantech Picks and Pans for 2013

Posted: December 11, 2012 at 8:02 am

The alternative energy sector is supposed to be one of the great winners of the 2012 election outcome. After all, an Obama victory would indicate further government support for what ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — August 15, 2012: Markets Don’t Impress Again (ETR, GBG, OCZ, RGR, JIVE, JDSU, PEIX, PAAS, ANF, A, CSIQ, DE, SPLS, TGT, A, AMAT, CSCO, LTD, NTAP, PETM, SINA, DLTR, DANG, GME, ROST, SHLD, WMT, S, SPLS, CSIQ)

Posted: August 15, 2012 at 4:07 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened somewhat lower this morning following an announcement from the Bank of England that it would not change interest rates nor asset purchases. In ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — August 14, 2012: Markets Mixed Ahead of Tomorrow’s Inflation Report (GRPN, WEN, MCP, EXPE, VALE, IAG, DKS, HD, KIOR, KORS, SKS, EL, TJX, JDSU, PEIX, PAAS, ANF, A, CSIQ, DE, SPLS, TGT, ASTI)

Posted: August 14, 2012 at 4:48 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning following data showing that GDP in several countries grew better than expected (more coverage here). Which indicates that if the ...
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Corn Prices Challenging Food, Seed, Ag and Ethanol (CORN, MOS, POT, MOO, TSN, ADM, MON, PEIX)

Posted: July 30, 2012 at 11:01 am

Corn is going to wreck whatever gasoline savings we had going into summer. By driving up the cost of the ethanol gasoline additive and by driving up feed costs for ...
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The Ethanol Paradox: Higher Prices on Lower Demand

Posted: July 16, 2012 at 11:27 am

Hot, dry weather in the nation’s main corn-growing region have pushed corn prices to nearly $7.80/bushel this morning, a level not reached since last September. About 40% of the US ...
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Another Shattering Secondary Offering for Renewable Fuels (PEIX, GEVO, BIOF, GPRE)

Posted: June 28, 2012 at 12:00 pm

Ethanol producer Pacific Ethanol Inc. (NASDAQ: PEIX) is watching investors crush the company’s stock following this morning’s announcement of a secondary offering of 28 million units at a price of ...
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Flood of Secondary Offerings Coming To Market

Posted: June 28, 2012 at 8:07 am

The market is about to get a flood of secondary offerings.  Some are post-IPO shares, others are established companies raising cash. Bazaarvoice, Inc. (NASDAQ: BV) has filed to sell up ...
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Posted: May 9, 2012 at 4:06 pm

The major US stock indexes opened sharply lower again this morning as investors consider Greece’s commitment to the austerity measures it had previously agreed to. Renegotiating the deal seems out ...
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Pacific Ethanol Brings Fears of a Capital Raise (PEIX)

Posted: April 16, 2012 at 10:24 am

Pacific Ethanol, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEIX) is paying the price this Monday morning after a filing from Friday came from the company allowing it to raise up to $100 million in ...
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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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Posted: February 28, 2012 at 4:14 pm

Stocks started the day nearly flat before turning down on a poor report on US durable goods orders (more coverage here) and a slide in the Case-Shiller home price index ...
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