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The rebalancing of the major benchmark Dow Jones-AIG commodity index can in some sense be seen as a gift to speculators, and it’s certainly helping to help start 2009 off with some action. The new weights have been published and
Full story...Downgrades are the name of the game in alternative energy markets as 2009 opens and analysts rush to lower prices for biodiesel, ethanol and especially for the US$100 billion carbon market. Plunging output means factories and
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Picks to oversee the Obama administration’s energy policy won green plaudits – Nobel Price winner Steven Chu will be Secretary of Energy, heading a team that includes former Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner,
Full story...It was ironic that that the European Union’s 27 leaders met in Poznan, Poland, to endorse a 20 per cent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 as Poland generates most of its energy from coal and has not a cat’s chance in hell
Full story...Solar power is set to continue its slump, say the analysts. The miserable close to 2008 is going to be followed by more of the same in 2009 for many alternative energy markets, it seems. Equally depressing, much of 2008’s bad
Full story...A towering in-tray is already piling even higher on the empty Secretary’s desk at the US Department of Agriculture. Awaiting decisions on the US mammoth agriculture subsidies are not just US corn farmers, ethanol producers and
Full story...There are many hopes pinned on Barack Obama’s victory and his election pledge to spend US$150 billion over the next ten years on clean energy and green jobs. Mr Obama wants to increase renewable energy generation from the current
Full story...Roger Ballentine of China Energy Recovery (US:CGYV)
Full story...Annual forecast time is here again, and more gloom is promised… With New Year only days away, analysts are peering into their crystal balls working out how to spook the rest of us! One of those looking out into 2009 is
Full story...The suspension on 1st December of the accreditation of Norway’s Det Norske Veritas (DNV) to validate carbon trading credits came as an unpleasant surprise to the carbon markets. The project auditor has been responsible for
Full story...There’s no end to the bad news in sight yet! There will be yet more forced liquidations and redemptions according both to Australia’s Macquarie bank and to US asset manager and research group Bernstein. So the heavy pressure on
Full story...The credit crunch is wreaking havoc in many sectors, not least in the alternative energy sector from where investors have been withdrawing in droves as they seek to minimize the risk in their portfolios. But an unexpected blow
Full story...Alternative energy markets benefited, for a change, from the latest momentous events in financial markets. Most commodities rose after the People’s Bank of China lowered its one-year lending rate to follow on from its US$590
Full story...“Where are we now? We’re back where we started.” So says Richard Lockwood, manager of London’s City Natural Resources fund - now part of CQS - a man who rode the recent commodities boom upwards in some style, and who appears to
Full story...The US ethanol industry is headed for a shakeout and consolidation, according to a warning given at the American Bankers Association. The shakeout will occur in the context of overcapacity and the record number of plants facing
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ARF signs agreements with FMG Group, and Operational Update
