Hints and tips:
...Last year, he helped endow a new economic research centre at Yale, and his family foundation focuses on improving opportunities for inner-city children, according to his biography on the American Prairie...
...“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....
...A tough week for the Prairie State....
...Meanwhile the American brand Coach staged its first ready-to-wear show, having previously done presentations, in a prairie-grassed glass box on the High Line....
...Biofuel refiners are pumping out plenty of ethanol, though they have throttled back their once-headlong pace of expansion....
...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 Canadian Wheat Board, with sales of $5.1bn in 2010, has enjoyed a monopoly to market wheat and barley from the prairie provinces of western Canada for decades....
...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....
...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....
...Much of the rise was fuelled by a rash of new maize-hungry bio-ethanol refineries....
International Edition