US Natural Gas Fired Power Consumption Hits Record High
Filed under: Commodities, Energy, Natural Gas, Oil & Gas
Data from the U.S. Department of Energy shows the nation’s energy sector used a record amount of natural gas-fired generation this past February, reports Reuters.
Consumption from natural gas power plants rose 34 percent from a year before in February, as prices lingered at a 10-year low and many utilities began to switch away from coal-fired generation in response to tightening environmental standards.
Through April 10 of this year, the gas-fired power plants consumed an average of 5 billion cubic feet per day more than over the same period last year, Arun Jayaram from Credit Suisse told the news source. Even Southern Company, which traditionally has relied on coal-fired power plants more than most utilities, saw coal fall below natural gas consumption. Read more
New Copper ETFs Are In Demand
Copper ETFs are set to be the next big thing in commodities trading. Latest estimate says that China will triple its consumption of copper to 20 million tons by 2020. China will account for 49% of world copper sales by then. With ETFs getting active, copper price is going to be bullish in the coming months. Base metals analysts have predicted that copper price might rise by 50% to $12,000 a metric ton in the next 12 months.
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, and BlackRock are leading investors behind new Copper ETFs that would trade on leading stock exchanges like NYSE, while investors derive prices from LME copper index and comex copper futures.
There are already a few Copper ETFs listed across exchanges in the USA, like:
- First Trust ISE Global Copper (NASDAQ: CU)
- Global X Copper Miners ETF (NYSEArca: COPX)
- iPath DJ-UBS Copper (NYSEArca: JJC)
Investment Opportunities in UK for 2011-2012
Filed under: Biotech & Pharma, Capital Markets, Commodities, Crude Oil, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrial Goods, Investment Opportunities, Natural Gas, Real Estate, Recommended, Renewable Energy
Hello Folks, since Jan 2011, we have been researching a few good Investment Opportunities in UK that can be used by investors and entrepreurs in our network – anyone based in the UK or abroad – location does not matter in such investments.
Our focus has been to look at businesses that are net exporters to the world, and have solid assets that will appreciate with time, even if the current economic weakness drags on for 1-2 years more. For some reason, many people in the UK automatically associate investment opportunities with property investments in the UK, but it does not have be like that because by investing in UK property, you are missing out on the growth happening in emerging economies like Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Many UK companies have business interests in these growth economies, and you must profit from them. Given the QE2 and overall positive liquidity in the global capital system, we believe natural resources are present a strong investment opportunity for anyone with 4 to 5 year timeframe.
Within the UK, Internet services, financial services, renewable energy, and pharma/biotech industries also present great investment opportunties that could give 25-50% return on investment in 2011-2012 timeframe. If you are interested to know more, please contact us .
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Filed under: Business-Services, Commodities, Consumer Goods, E-Business, Energy, Financial, Healthcare, Industrial Goods, Recommended, Technology
Using our large website network of 50+ websites in different industries, we can generate high quality business leads for any marketing campaign in almost any industry. These business leads are high quality because they are searching the web for solutions to their problems/requirements are are ready buyers.
We generate business leads by placing ads (text and/or image) on our website network, and by having a custom page for each campaign, which is used to share initial information and collect the contact info/inquiry from the interest person/lead. Read more
Crude Oil Futures Set To Trade on Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX)
Filed under: Capital Markets, Commodities, Financial, Financial Services
Financial Technologies (FT) Group’s Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX) has received final approval from Singapore authorities to operate as an international commodity and currency derivatives exchange there.
SMX is the first pan-Asian multi-product commodity and currency derivatives exchange. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) granted ‘Approved Exchange’ status to SMX to operate out of Singapore as a regulated and licensed exchange, a company release said here. SMX has announced four products, which will be traded when the exchange goes live:
- Gold futures contract with physical delivery
- West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Crude Oil
- Brent-Euro Crude Oil and
- Euro-US Dollar futures contracts
“SMX will create a new generation international commodity and derivative trading platform at par with best global exchanges in New York and London,” Financial Technologies Group CEO and SMX’s Vice Chairman, Jignesh Shah said. SMX is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Financial Technologies Group.
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