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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...
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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...
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The volcano in Iceland is still spewing ash into the air. While many Americans have discussed investment banking scandals, the volcano situation in Iceland is affecting far more than many might...
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Some of these ethanol stocks are almost becoming permanent members on the list of 52-week lows. Some of these were major hi-flyers that went to flying under the radar to merely being...
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More than 40% of this year’s US corn harvest, about 5.05 billion bushels, is expected to be used to produce ethanol. That surpasses an estimated 5 billion bushels that will be used for livestock...
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Last February, Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE:RDS-A) and Brazil’s Cosan Ltd. (NYSE:CZZ) signed an agreement to create a joint venture to distribute and sell cane ethanol in Brazil. The two companies...
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It’s no accident that the investing scene in renewable energy stocks resembles the boom-and-bust cycle familiar to hard-rock mining. When the stuff is scarce, a new discovery can get rich. When the...
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has released its expected increase in the ethanol “blend wall” from 10% (E10) to 15% (E15) for light vehicles built in model year 2007 and later. The agency...
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Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, Inc (NYSE:AVR) is one of the names that seems to show up on the list of 52-week lows more often than it doesn’t. Today is a repeat of that...
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Toward the end of 2008 (and even sooner), ethanol may have seemed like a fad that came and went. Then came the dull year of 2009 that seemed as though it would yield little. Yet ethanol stocks...
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The federal subsidy of $0.45/gal for domestic ethanol is set to expire at year’s end, and the sparks are flying now as the embattled industry seeks to renew government payments. On one side are the...
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What will happen to ethanol makers when the US subsidy ends in December, as appears increasingly likely? Bunge Ltd. (NYSE: BG) apparently believes that demand will continue strong, at least in...
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This morning’s earnings report from Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM) offers proof that if a company is going to be in the ethanol business, it had better have a fallback position. ADM blew past...
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We have been reviewing which publicly traded energy companies have lost the most value in the past year, and we are breaking these down by sector and by sub-sector. While composing this list is not...
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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. With just two of these...
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