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Friday, March 22, 2013

SG Commodities Review: Carbon

SG Commodities Review: Carbon

Paolo Coghe & Stephanie Aymes
2013.03.20

■ After the crucial success in the ENVI vote on February 19, the path to the formal approval process for backloading will continue and the Parliament and Council, along with the European Commission, will enter into ‘trialogue’ negotiations to arrive at a common text before the plenary vote scheduled for 15 April at the European Parliament.

SG Commodities Review: Thermal coal

SG Commodities Review: Thermal coal

Paolo Coghe
2013.03.20

■ Throughout 2012 the mining sector started to rediscover some of the investment discipline that had disappeared during the commodity bull run of the last decade, causing an oversupply of coal, exacerbated by a global economic slowdown, and in turn leading to a material price slide and current depressed price levels.

SG Commodities Review: The four consequences of the US shale gas revolution

SG Commodities Review: European Gas and LNG

Thierry Bros
2013.03.20

The four consequences of the US shale gas revolution

1/ US coal is displacing Russian gas in Europe

The US shale gas revolution pushed Cheap US coal and is displacing expensive gas for power generation in Europe. But, faced with record low European gas demand, Norway managed to increase its production, forcing Gazprom to act as the swing supplier.

SG Commodities Review: European Gas and LNG

SG Commodities Review: European Gas and LNG

Thierry Bros
2013.03.20

■ Norway exported a record 107.6 bcm of pipe gas in 2012, according to the gas system operator Gassco.

SG Commodities Review: US Natural Gas

SG Commodities Review: US Natural Gas

Laurent Key
2013.03.20

■ SG research’s Cal 13 price forecast was revised 20 cents higher vs last quarter at $3.70, due to the bullish withdrawals experienced at the end of the winter.

SG Commodities Review: Oil

SG Commodities Review: Oil

Michael Wittner
2013.03.20

■ Strong growth in Chinese demand is driving 1.1 Mb/d of global consumption growth this year. Total growth in non-OPEC supply, including OPEC NGLs, comes to 1.4 Mb/d, driven by 1.0 Mb/d growth in US liquids output. Saudi Arabia has been cutting proactively and aggressively to balance the market.

Office Vacancy Declines In Major Markets In Q1 2013

Office Vacancy Declines In Major Markets In Q1 2013

Biggest Drops in Denver and San Francisco Office Markets. Moderate Decline in Industrial Availability.

Los Angeles, March 21, 2013 – Office vacancy rates declined or held steady in most major U.S. markets during Q1 2013, according to preliminary data from CBRE Group, Inc. Six of the 12 largest markets showed declines in office vacancy, led by Denver and San Francisco, while two markets remained stable. Industrial availability* continued to decrease moderately in major U.S. markets, according to CBRE.

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Turkey May Block Use of Natural Gas for Cyprus Bailout

Turkey May Block Use of Natural Gas for Cyprus Bailout

Published: Thursday, 21 Mar 2013 | 3:13 PM ET

Turkey could challenge any move by Cyprus to speed up offshore natural gas exploration as a way of attracting desperately needed investment to save its teetering economy, senior Turkish officials said Thursday.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100579091

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

First Insights: China: HSBC flash manufacturing PMI rebounds in March

Economics Research | Asia Ex-Japan

21 March 2013

First Insights: China: HSBC flash manufacturing PMI rebounds in March

The HSBC China flash manufacturing PMI rebounded to 51.7 in March from 50.4 in February, much stronger than expected (Consensus: 50.8; Nomura: 51.0). The 1.3 percentage point (pp) jump in March cannot be explained by seasonal factors alone. Since the HSBC PMI data started in 2005, there have been four years when the lunar new year holiday fell in February; in these years, the PMI rose by an average of 0.6pp in March.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Colony Capital Securities Fraud Losses

Colony Capital Securities Fraud Losses

We are currently investigating claims of investors of Colony Capital. From approximately July, 2008 through July, 2010, Gary Snisky and David Burch of Colony Capital, LLC and other related companies such as Colony Capital Holdings and Colony Capital Group (“Colony”), carried out a scheme to defraud investors by investing his clients in a so-called “private equity fund” secuties. The clients lost at least $3.2 million with the promise of an annual rate of return on their investment based on the misrepresentations and omissions of the risks of making the investment.

http://www.jpedersonlaw.com/blog/2013/03/18/colony-capital-securities-fraud-loss/