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By Phil Flynn |
April 2, 2013
While manufacturing reported weakness caused a drop in oil, heating oil led a product comeback. Yet it was natural gas that quietly closed above $4.00 that was perhaps the most interesting move of the day.
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By Aya Takada and Yasumasa Song |
March 28, 2013
A slump in the yen against the dollar may be behind the Tokyo Commodity Exchange's first profit in six years.
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By Tsuyoshi Inajima and Sally Bakewell, Bloomberg |
February 20, 2013
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will ask U.S. President Barack Obama to allow shale gas exports as the world’s third-largest economy grapples with soaring energy costs after 2011’s nuclear disaster closed reactors.
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By Aya Takada and Yasumasa Song |
January 29, 2013
The Japanese government says the transfer of farm futures from the Tokyo Grain Exchange won’t boost trading enough to make Tocom profitable.
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By Joe Carroll, Bloomberg |
August 6, 2012
Slumping oil and natural-gas prices threaten to exacerbate a cash crunch at Chesapeake Energy Corp., adding to pressure on Chief Executive Officer Aubrey McClendon to sell oilfields from Texas to Ohio.
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By Alanna Byrne, Daniel P. Collins |
June 7, 2012
With Jérôme Kerviel back in court appealing his three year prison sentence, we wanted to see where he ranks compared to other rogue traders.
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By Thom Weidlich, Bloomberg |
April 7, 2012
A former New York commodities trader was sentenced to two years and four months in prison for threatening to kill federal financial regulators.
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By Canaccord Genuity Morning Coffee |
September 19, 2011
A strike involving thousands of workers at Freeport McMoRan's Indonesian copper mine and port has delayed around 133,000 tonnes of copper ore concentrate shipments
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By John J. Licata |
February 1, 2011
You can use the stock market to exploit one of today’s hottest commodities: uranium. But investing in the wrong companies can bite you big time
