Archive for the ‘markets’ Category

What A Ride

If you haven’t been following the markets, you are missing out. What a ride! Take a look at this weekly chart of DEC 08 Corn.

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Poorer Than You Think

Just a friendly message from the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX)

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After A Hard Day of Trading

This really will mean the most to you that are getting beat up with the stock or commodity markets, but has a broad appeal with the risk of global recession and/or depression.    I can tell you that I personally laughed so hard I was in tears.    This is what it is like after [...]

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Maple Leaf CEO Message

Many of you must have heard about the recall of meat from the Maple Leaf Foods plant in Toronto due to an outbreak of Listeria that has left several sick and has also led to some fatalities.   It is a difficult issue as I know from being in the food industry, but I will leave [...]

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Record Corn Update

Every single time that I write a post about historic high corn, it seems to get even higher.   There are record flooding going on in the corn belt and we are at the tightest ending stocks in history.    The real question we have to ask now is how high is high?    We all assume that [...]

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What’s New On Sunday

Let me tell you briefly what I know since I have been up since 5:00 am MST. I found out the following:

Obama pulled ahead 1,617 to 1,498 over Clinton yesterday with a few more pledged delegates
Raincoaster got the big laugh for me with her tumblr blog entry:

Why are the links I put [...]

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What’s New On Sunday

Let me tell you briefly what I know since I have been up since 5:00 am MST.    I found out the following:

Obama pulled ahead 1,617 to 1,498 over Clinton yesterday with a few more pledged delegates
Raincoaster got the big laugh for me with her tumblr blog entry:

Why are the links I put in days ago [...]

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JBS The Biggest Packer/Feeder

In a dramatic chain of events, JBS purchased both National and Smithfield Beef today.   With this purchase they also picked up 5 River Cattle Company with a one-time feeding capacity of 800,000 on feed!   If this one is approved by the Justice Department, they will become the largest packing/feeder company in the USA.   The following [...]

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Corn Moving, But Where?

If you are in the business, it has become a new reality that corn and other grains are on the move upwards. We saw the fall of 2006 take corn upwards when it seasonally would go down. That led to few people buying corn expecting it to go lower. [...]

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