http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/futures/ en-us Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:56:47 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395278/posts Dow Futures down 327 as of 2:41AM. NASDAQ down 70.75. S&P down 41.70. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395278/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:56:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380931/posts NEW YORK, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Gold futures in New York rose to a record above $1,100 per ounce on Friday as the dollar eased in the wake of disappointing U.S. employment data. At 9:48 a.m. EST (1448 GMT) December gold GCZ9 was up $10.20 at $1,099.50 an ounce at the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, having topped at $1,101.90 in morning trade. Spot gold XAU= reached a record at $1,100.90 per ounce. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380931/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:56:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374592/posts Oil Futures Give Back Some Of Previous Day's SurgeCrude still set to gain more than 11% for October as dollar slumps.Oct. 30, 2009, 11:15 a.m. EDT Polya Lesova, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures dipped on Friday after a 3.1% surge in the previous session on news the U.S. economy returned to growth, as a mixed batch of economic reports led traders to reassess the outlook for energy demand. Crude oil for December delivery was recently down 80 cents, or 1%, at $79.07 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Still, oil has gained more than 11%... Market Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374592/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:39:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2317713/posts Stock futures signal sharp drop after Asia selloff On Monday August 17, 2009, 4:28 am EDT PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - Stock index futures extended their losses early on Monday, mirroring a selloff in Asian and European stocks on mounting worries the equities' recent surge had run ahead of the global economic recovery. At 4:18 a.m. EDT, futures for the S&P 500 were down 1.92 percent, Dow Jones futures were down 2.11 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures were down 2.11 percent. Chinese stocks (^SSEC - News) sank 5.8 percent to their lowest close in two months on Monday on worries about added... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2317713/posts#comment Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:46:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2259597/posts Changes in the sun is shortening growing season while credit crunch leaves farmers unable to purchase fertilizer at a time when world food supplies are at all time lows. Crop failures around the world are snowballing into a dangerous climax that may lead to social unrest and famine. Suggest reading entire article and links within it. Very scary... and this is happening... it is not conjecture. A mini ice age may be on the way because of sunspot cycles and already existing empty grain, coffee, et al silos. Research Capital http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2259597/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 04:51:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204913/posts Futures point to lower Wall Street open By Barbara Kollmeyer, MarketWatch Last update: 5:52 a.m. EDT March 12, 2009 MADRID (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock futures were heading south on Wall Street Thursday, with stocks overseas lower on the view a sustained turnaround for stocks can't be called yet, while Genentech agreed to a buyout worth $48.6 billion from Roche. S&P 500 futures fell 5.1 points to 715.40 and Nasdaq 100 futures fell 6.5 points to 1,125. Dow industrial futures fell 45 points to 6,869. U.S. stocks eked out their first back-to-back gains since early February Wednesday after JPMorgan Chase Chief... Market Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204913/posts#comment Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:26:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2184077/posts VIENNA - Surging crude inventories and investor skepticism over the U.S. stimulus package dragged oil prices below $36 ($35) per barrel Thursday. Investors seemed more wary than relieved after U.S. lawmakers finally agreed overnight to a $790 billion stimulus bill designed to pull the economy out of recession. Minneapolis Star Ttribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2184077/posts#comment Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:54:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166977/posts When oil rocketed past $100 on its way to $147 a barrel last summer, analysts frequently commented that prices "were not supported by the fundamentals." Now, with oil trading between $35 and $50 in recent weeks, a few questions keep crossing my mind. Do the current "fundamentals" support $40 oil? What price do the "fundamentals" support? In 2009, with the world a different place after an economic meltdown, just what the heck are the modern "fundamentals" of the energy market? I called John Olson, the co-manager of Houston Energy Partners, for some answers. Olson told me that the fundamentals of... Tulsa World http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166977/posts#comment Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:05:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2125380/posts DOW 1month FUTURES FUTURES FAIR VALUE (-90.75) 8691.25 8450.0 -324.00 8683.25 8450.0 -233.25 S&P 500 1month FUTURES FUTURES FAIR VALUE (-6.79) 908.11 880.5 -34.70 908.41 880.5 -27.91 NASDAQ 1month FUTURES FUTURES FAIR VALUE (-10.34) 1239.16 1208.0 -45.50 1243.16 1208.0 -35.16 CNBC.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2125380/posts#comment Wed, 5 Nov 2008 04:22:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117397/posts Crude oil prices could possibly fall to as low as $40/barrel, and as crude continues to lose value it may soon be oversold, Deutsche Bank chief energy analyst Adam Sieminski told an audience at a Washington think-tank Monday. "Just as we overshot with $140/b oil, we could undershoot with oil at $40/b," Sieminski told attendees at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Global Energy and Environment Initiative. Crude oil prices are down more than 50% since reaching an intraday record high of $147.27/b on July 11. NYMEX December oil futures Monday fell as low as $61.30/b earlier in the day, before rebounding... Platts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117397/posts#comment Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:58:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100298/posts World's leading economies -- led by U.S. Federal Reserve and European Central Bank -- announce half point cut in interest rates. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100298/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 11:20:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100296/posts Fed Orders Emergency Rate Cut to 1.5 Percent; Futures Soar Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100296/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 11:14:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082625/posts ...and it *was* down to $94.13! Wouldn't it be great to see it go below $89.99 by the end of the day? ;OD Oil-price.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2082625/posts#comment Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:18:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2078429/posts There are 5 contracts that I intend to examine to get a start on finding some kind of number to quantify Liberal Bias on Intrade. The first contract is 2008.PRES.CLINTON(H) which seems like it should have zero value. This gives a good glimpse at a baseline bias value. Taking into account the volume of the contract, bias might be expressed as Price * Volume of such a baseline contract. In this case it's 3.2 * 522834, but that's unnecessarily high because the volume is over the life of the contract. So I would use the volume since the convention ended,... Free Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2078429/posts#comment Tue, 9 Sep 2008 20:40:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074249/posts Now whose got yer Bounce, Baby Bama Baller?!? Dat B SARACUUUDAAHHHH!!!!!! http://www.intrade.net/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074249/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 04:17:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051661/posts CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Proposals to reign in wallet-draining gasoline prices by curbing speculation in oil markets would likely increase costs at the pump instead of trimming them, a University of Illinois economist says. Scott Irwin argues congressional efforts to curb trading by speculators is a “misguided witch hunt” that ignores the root of America’s energy problem – a finite global oil supply that has been stretched thin by surging demand in China, India and other developing countries. “We need to have a real national debate about issues related to both the demand side and the supply side of our energy... University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051661/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:28:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050814/posts NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The government charged an oil trading firm Thursday with manipulating oil prices in the first complaint to be announced since the regulators began a new investigation into wrongdoings in the energy markets. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission accused Optiver Holding, two of its subsidiaries and three employees with manipulation and attempted manipulation of crude oil, heating oil and gasoline futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange. "Optiver traders amassed large trading positions, then conducted trades in such a way to bully and hammer the markets," CFTC Acting Chairman Walt Lukken said at a press conference. "These... money.cnn.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050814/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:25:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049534/posts NEW YORK (Reuters) - A massive $3.2 billion trading loss on oil futures and derivatives sank high flying energy trader SemGroup LP, which at one time billed itself as the 14th-largest private company in the United States. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049534/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:46:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048351/posts ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Alaska | This place is a Zen thing. The only way to tell you’ve wandered in is the absence of anything saying so. No signs. No road to get here. No advice from government stewards about what to seek out or what to avoid. No entrance fees and no officially licensed T-shirt. This isn’t just wilderness, contend those who want to keep it pristine, but a sanctuary for wildness. It is also oil country. With just the last half of the last year of the petroleum-friendly Bush administration remaining, the window for opening the land to... The Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048351/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:36:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042551/posts NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil prices extended a post-July 4th descent Tuesday - falling more than $9 a barrel over two days - as Iran's president downplayed concerns about possible war in the Middle East and investors anticipated falling demand due to high gasoline prices. The price of light sweet crude for August delivery tumbled $5.33 to settle at $136.04 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It was the lowest level in nearly two weeks, and followed a drop of $3.92 Monday. Iran:Concerns over supply disruptions in the oil-rich Middle East eased after Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said... money.cnn.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042551/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:23:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042263/posts Congress is back in session and oil prices are still through the roof, so pointless or destructive energy legislation is all but guaranteed. Most likely is stiffer regulation of the futures market, since Democrats and even many Republicans have so much invested in blaming "speculators" for $4 gas. Congress always needs a political villain, but few are more undeserving. Futures trading merely allows market participants to determine the best estimate – based on available information like supply and demand and the rate of inflation – of what the real price of oil will be on the delivery date of the... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042263/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 07:29:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040723/posts Without a doubt, crude oil is the most important commodity on our planet. Hypothetically if it vanished overnight, our entire modern world would collapse. No goods could move without the oil-derived transportation fuels, so virtually all trade would implode. Unlike nearly every other major commodity, there is just no economically-viable substitute for oil. And the fundamentals driving oil’s secular bull are unparalleled in their strength. As Asia awakens and enters the modern era, global demand for oil is rising relentlessly. Despite today’s unprecedented prices, demand remains strong all over the world. And of course once oil is burned, it is... Zeal Speculation and Investment http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040723/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:34:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040675/posts NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Atlanta hedge fund manager Michael Masters has been a star witness in two recent Congressional hearings on how speculators are supposedly driving up oil prices. Masters and I don't see eye-to-eye on this issue, so I was surprised to get a call from him after my "Don't Blame The Oil Speculators" column went up on Fortune.com last week. Masters contends that without speculators, the price of oil would be $65 or $70 a barrel. He points out that the amount invested in commodities index products has risen from $13 billion to $260 billion in five years,... Fortune Magazine/money.cnn.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040675/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:53:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2038874/posts <p>Before the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission starts scrutinizing the role that speculators may have played in driving up fuel and food prices, investigators may want to take a look at price swings in a commodity not in today's news: onions.</p> Fortune/CNNMoney http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2038874/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:03:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037405/posts LEGISLATIVE COMMENTS May 22, 2008 Via Facsimile and Overnight Delivery The Honorable Dianne Feinstein 331 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510 Dear Senator Feinstein: I write on behalf of IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (“ICE”) and ICE Futures Europe in response to recent comments regarding the role of regulated, global exchanges that provide centralized and transparent price discovery for commodity markets. Specifically, with regard to energy, ICE has strived to demonstrate leadership in supporting efforts of both the CFTC and Congress further enhancing market transparency. As you know from our work together on the 2008 Farm Bill, ICE strongly supports the objective... oilfuturesmarketfacts.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037405/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:38:31 GMT