GLG News in Energy & Industrials

While a nation's economy can go through normal business cycles, its middle class will continue to use convenience products with which they've become accustomed.  Examples are bath and facial tissue, paper towels, baby diapers, adult briefs, feminie hygiene, incontinent pads and air laid nonwoven products (i.e.disposable hospital gowns).  These products would seem to be immune to business...

General Motor's admits that "The Volt...has a range of 40 miles (when all power equipment has been turned off, including air conditioner, stereo and headlights),...."   General Motors apparently suffers from "We will build it, and they will buy it syndrome." Who now needs a short range, environmentally touchy, expensive small car for running around the empty subdivision or going...

  YRC Worldwide is hoping it can ride out the current credit crunch and sour freight environment to avoid bankruptcy or further erosion of customer confidence.   With about $1.19 billion in debt, the $9.6 billion trucking concern is trying to pay off long-term debt to preserve liquidity and to stay within its loan covenants.    YRC's stock has been pummeled, off nearly 90 percent...

Anyway, I was surprised at an attached URL news. And I read the comment of that African-Kimono deginer. I felt he is wise because he said one side of the common truth. He said "I do not want the end result to belong to Africa, nor should it belong to Japan. It is not a 'fusion,' " says Mouangue, who was born in Cameroon and grew up in Paris. "I want it to be something else. It should transcend...

The rush to analogy by the mainstream media has recently brought us such oversimplifications as the comparison of modern America to ancient Rome and of Barack Obama to John F. Kennedy, but the MSM may be on to something with a description of the disappearance of interest by investors in thinly capitalized junior (exploration oriented) mining companies as a Darwinian "culling, a destruction of...

Japanese domestic solar cell market has been sluggish since the subsidies were abolished in 2005. Japan's solar cell manufacturers have instead relied on rapidly increasing overseas demand, particularly in Germany, Italy and Spain, which have put in place incentives to promote solar cells and other renewable energy sources. Japanese market leaders such as Sharp and Kyosera now export more...

As a result of the tightening of credit and the drop in crude oil prices Oil company executives will act rationally with regard to what they perceive as in the best interests of their firms.  This will involve a focus on cash generation through 1. focus on production 2. reduction in costs 3. delay and /or reduction in exploration 4. delay in expansions with a focus on...

The critical metals for consumer electronics are all byproducts of the production of base metals. Any cut in base metal production is automatically a cut in byproduct metal production.

    The Dakota Minnesota & Eastern (DM&E) Railroad was recently acquired by the Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway.  The DM&E has for years been proposing an extension to the Wyoming Powder River Basin coal reserves.  This project, if commenced, would upgrade an existing 600 miles of track and provide for 260 miles of new track expansion into the coal fields of...

During the middle of the summer in 2006, refining economics began to be turned upside down. NYMEX Heating oil futures prices and cash diesel prices were higher than NYMEX gasoline prices. This phenomena ended in February of 2007 but reappeared once in again by August and have remained with us since.  Consequently refiners have maximized distillate production setting all sorts of...