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...“I don’t have a lot of technology to add to moonshine,” Tillerson noted on ethanol. His brashness was not without success....
...Occidental Petroleum reaches truce with activist investor Carl Icahn (WSJ) Activist investors: blame game (FT Lex) Credit Suisse cuts ex-chief Tidjane Thiam’s bonus after spying scandal (FT) Faltering ethanol...
...manufacturing is actually a close cousin to pharmacy, and the factory equipment could be quickly repurposed — LVMH already had the three main ingredients on hand that are needed to make sanitiser — purified water, ethanol...
...The anticipated policy change was a gradual tightening of a federal mandate for blending biofuels, such as corn ethanol, into motor fuels sold at service stations....
...It was unleashed by a law requiring a sharp rise in domestic ethanol sales....
...economist at Rome’s UN Food and Agriculture Organization, says there has been more fluctuation in agricultural commodity prices as they have become closely linked with other commodities such as petroleum and ethanol...
...We’re referring to the spectacular rise in the price of Renewable Identification Number (RIN) ethanol credits, which jumped 20-fold to records above $1 this March as traders feared stocks would be depleted...
...In spite of the difficult market conditions, some companies have managed to sell shares in the Sao Paulo market, most recently sugar and ethanol company, Biosev, a unit of international commodities trader...
...Andy Milnes, head of oil supply and trading for BP in North and South America, said company analysts are watching not only petroleum fundamentals but Brazilian sugarcane – a source of ethanol fuel....
...“The ethanol industry experienced sustained negative margins,” Ms Woertz said. Corn prices in Chicago jumped to a nominal all-time high of $8.4375 a bushel in August....
...Since then, he has built up the company, expanding into ethanol and biofuels in 2000....
...diversified oil and gas company based in Arkansas, will spin off its US downstream business into a new publicly traded company that will operate more than 1,000 gas stations, most of them at Walmarts; two ethanol...
...Valero Energy , the oil and ethanol refiner, added 2 per cent to $22.28. Shares of Alcoa , the world’s second-largest aluminium company by market capitalisation, moved up 2.5 per cent to $8.52....
...The impact on US companies would be exacerbated by the end of a tax credit on ethanol of 45 cents a gallon and a tariff of 54 cents a gallon that protected them against cheaper Brazilian ethanol, analysts...
...Signs at Main Street petrol stations advertise that the fuel for sale is “ethanol free” – a blasphemy in corn-growing states such as Iowa....
...Next year USDA expects ethanol groups will use another 100m bushels....
...Chuck Woodside, chairman of the Renewable Fuels Association and general manager of Nebraska-based KAAPA Ethanol, said: “As we sit here, ethanol produced in Minden, Nebraska, is the cheapest motor fuel out...
...Weekend headlines from the FT and other UK media:* From The FT, - Madagascar Oil to bounce back after dispute - Newmont faces probe over Indonesia assets - Pursuit Dynamics reacts to ethanol demand - Chariot...
...Gavilon trades a wide range of commodities, including corn, soyabeans, wheat, potash, crude oil, natural gas and ethanol. Like some of its investors, Gavilon is also a proprietary trader....
...It has bought full ownership of its joint venture with Verenium, the US biotechcompany, working on producing “cellulosic” ethanol from non-food crops such as switchgrass....
...The IMF also said continued strong demand for corn for ethanol production and high fuel and fertiliser costs would maintain upward pressure on food prices....
...Rising demand for alternative fuels has led to a boom in ethanol investment. Increased ethanol production has pushed corn prices up dramatically....
...Some guide prices: computer.com $1m – $5m taxes.com $1m – $5m stockquotes.com $1m – $5m investment.com $750,001 – $1m disease.com $750,001 – $1m photographers.com $750,001 – $1m ethanol.com $750,001 – $1m...
...Ethanol makers are expected to use 100m fewer bushels of corn than previously expected, with demand forecast at 3.3bn bushels over the next 12 months....
...tied to sub-prime mortgage lender New Century Financial, Greenlight Capital has raked a healthy profit or $113m so far this year from its holdings in the fertiliser company, which has benefited from the ethanol...
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