Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Mid Week News 07 Apr

  • EIA reports it plans to dramatically alter the way it collects and reports natural gas production data based on increasing evidence that the current methodology grossly overstates production data (a major cause for the past year's decline)- Surely, it is coincidental that this occurs at the low after a year of government saber-rattling.... (Seeking Alpha)
  • EIA Paper on Natural Gas Revisions & Methodology. (EIA)
  • Contango & Energy ETFs. (Seeking Alpha)
  • WSJ v. Bloomberg on credit investor risk appetite. (FT Alpha)
  • Reserve Bank of Australia raises key interest rate. (FT Alpha)
  • NYSE European Dark Pool trading surges in Q1. (Bloomberg)
  • Huge call option activity in TZA- Quite logical since the Squids have made IWM perpetually hard to borrow/unshortable. (Stockmasters.com)
  • Greek CDS Spreads continue to show danger. (FT Alpha)

Friday, April 2, 2010

Weekend News 2 Apr

Non Farm Payroll Update 2 Apr

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Natural Gas Update 31 Mar

22 Billion Cubic Ft/Day demand during winter 2010-All time record
  • Natural Gas gets cheap compared to Oil. (Seeking Alpha)
  • Statoil buys additional US Shale- Another multinational oil conglomerate buying worthless Natural Gas. (Bloomberg)
  • Environmental & Drilling issues with Fracking which could cut drilling in half- Suddenly the never ending shale supply is threatened.... (Bloomberg)
  • Obama's domestic energy proposal. (Bloomberg)
  • Goldman reverses course near low on Natural Gas. Now bullish due to Exxon/XTO acquisition- Depressing price and accumulating at the low much?? (Bloomberg)

Mid Week News 31 Mar

  • 24 Hours until the end of MBS Purchases by the Federal Reserve- See you again soon for QE 2! (Zerohedge)
  • Morgan Stanley: Equity Market rally nearing its end. (FT Alpha)
  • Canaries in Swap Spread Coalmine? Or not.... (FT Alpha)
  • Copper confirms new highs in Equity Markets. (Seeking Alpha)