Earnings season is in full swing and the coming week is going to be extremely active with big earnings reports. 24/7 Wall St. has tried to preview several top earnings for the week…
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. Among the…
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 add a…
Canadian grain handling company Viterra Inc. (OTC: VTRAF.PK) is reported to have three potential buyers in its data room, in advance of making an offer to acquire the firm. Bloomberg News is…
Ethanol makers like Archer Danials Midland Co. (NYSE: ADM), Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: GPRE), and Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRE) are expected to experience lower prices for ethanol in the…
Ag products giant Archer Daniels Midland Co. (NYSE: ADM) posted second fiscal quarter results this morning and the company is in for a rough ride in the equities market today. In what…
Paul Ausick Privately held ethanol maker POET has rejected a US Department of Energy loan of $105 million to help with the expansion of a cellulosic ethanol plant in Iowa. POET, with 27 ethanol…
Texas Congressman Pete Olson has introduced legislation to classify ethanol made from coal and natural gas as a renewable fuel. The bill has three Democratic and two Republican co-sponsors. The largest ethanol…
Olympus may partner with Samsung. (Reuters) RBS cuts 3,500 investment bank jobs. (Reuters) RealtyTrac reports that foreclosures reached a four-year low in 2011. (Reuters) International Monetary Fund senior executive Lipton sees no…
After 30 years of payments to farmers and blenders, the federal subsidy on corn-based ethanol expired when Congress adjourned last week without taking any action to renew the payments. A cynic might…
In 2007, the U.S. Congress established mandates for the amount of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels to be used in the nation’s transportation fuel supply. Cellulosic ethanol and fuels based on algae…
Fears for a supply shortage of corn earlier this year led the world’s farmers to plant more of the crop on expectations of higher prices. Now that the crop is in, it…
Cocoa prices spiked earlier this year when Ivory Coast, the world’s largest producer, banned exports in a political dispute. The bean reached a high of more than $3,600/metric ton in February. Since…
Paul Ausick Our series on expected upside in stock prices continues today with a look at the biofuels sector. What you are about to see are numbers that, for the most part, defy gravity.…
The companies we’re looking at today run the gamut from large farm and food products producers to the packaged goods makers that make the products on store shelves. It’s a wide range,…
