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Warren Buffett Is Still Riding the Rails PKOL

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+89.83% in 372 days Warren Buffett Is Still Riding the Rails <> <> As evidence of a bullish long-term outlook for railroads, Warren Buffet's Berskshire recently increased its stake in Burlington Northern (BNI) and the CEO of Kansas City Southern (KSU), Michael Haverty, appeared on Larry Kudlow's show on CNBC Thursday evening, stating that rail transport was showing continued strength in the transport of coal, chemicals, and grains with weakness in the transport of consumer goods and housing related commodities. Berkshire paid $79.65 each to add 825,000 shares of BNI, upping its stake in ... Continue reading »

Analysis of Global Coal Prices & Energy Commodity Funds PKOL

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+18.91% in 5 days (closed on 10/31/08) Analysis of Global Coal Prices & Energy Commodity Funds <> <> The accompanying 5-month chart presents an analysis of the global price of near-month coal futures contracts from the U.S. (QL – Central Appalachian NYMEX Coal Futures), South Africa (AFR – Richards Bay ICE Coal Futures), and Europe (ATW – Rotterdam ICE Coal Futures) compared to the Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL), U.S. Natural Gas Fund (UNG, and U.S. Oil Fund (USO). Although this is not a huge amount of historical data, the past five months presents an interesting analysis given the tremendous volati< />< />< />< /><>< />< />< />< />< />< />< />< />... Continue reading »

A Commodity Fund to Track Global Coal Price PKOL

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+0.00% in 21 hours (closed on 10/26/08) A Commodity Fund to Track Global Coal Price <> The accompanying table contains a summary and statistics for 16 ETFI global equity indexes and two commodity pool fund ideas, with the short/inverse and defensive themes outpacing the overall market averages over the past year in the midst of ongoing market turmoil around the world. <> Although currently out of favor with investors, new commodity pool fund ideas include timber and coal. The CoalFund is a commodity pool that is structured to track the performance of exchange-traded, near-month futures contracts ... Continue reading »

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Emerging Market Catch All Part Deux

The fascination with emerging markets continues on the web and in the market. China is up over 80% YTD and there are other markets that have also had eye popping gains. I wrote about emerging markets last week but since then there have been a few more things that have come up that could be worthwhile to address. <>First was the Barron's interview this week with Arjun Divecha who manages the GMO Emerging Markets III Fund (GMOEX). Barron's said the minimum initial purchase is $50 million. I thought the minimum was $10 million but either way with that type of minimum I wonder why they even use th... Continue reading »

An 8-Week Analysis of Global Coal Prices & Energy Commodity Funds

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<>The accompanying chart presents an 8-week analysis of global coal futures prices as a follow-up to my previous 5-month analysis last month, Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL), PowerShares Global Coal ETF (PKOL), S&P 500 ETF (SPY), U.S. Natural Gas (UNG) + Oil (USO) Funds, and the Energy Sector ETF (XLE). The global price of coal is tracked by the near-month coal futures contracts from the U.S. (QL – Central Appalachian NYMEX Coal Futures), South Africa (AFR – Richards Bay ICE Coal Futures), and Europe (ATW – Rotterdam ICE Coal Futures) – posting a decline of 38% on an equally-weighted av< />< />< />< /><>< />< />< />< />< />< />< />< /><><>< /><><>< /><>< /><>< /><>< /><>< /><>< /><>< /><>< /><>< /><>< />< />... Continue reading »

An 8-Week Analysis of Global Coal Prices & Energy Commodity Funds

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<>The accompanying chart presents an 8-week analysis of global coal futures prices as a follow-up to my previous 5-month analysis last month, Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL), PowerShares Global Coal ETF (PKOL), S&P 500 ETF (SPY), U.S. Natural Gas (UNG) + Oil (USO) Funds, and the Energy Sector ETF (XLE). The global price of coal is tracked by the near-month coal futures contracts from the U.S. (QL – Central Appalachian NYMEX Coal Futures), South Africa (AFR – Richards Bay ICE Coal Futures), and Europe (ATW – Rotterdam ICE Coal Futures) – posting a decline of 38% on an equally-weighted av< />< />< />< /><>< />< />< />< />< />< />< />< /><><>< /><><>< /><>< /><>< /><>< /><>< /><>< /><>< /><>< /><>< /><>< />< />... Continue reading »

A Commodity Fund to Track Global Coal Price

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The accompanying table contains a summary and statistics for 16 ETFI global equity indexes and two commodity pool fund ideas, with the short/inverse and defensive themes outpacing the overall market averages over the past year in the midst of ongoing market turmoil around the world. <>Although currently out of favor with investors, new commodity pool fund ideas include timber and coal. The CoalFund is a commodity pool that is structured to track the performance of exchange-traded, near-month futures contracts for global coal prices from the following four major coal-producing/exporting regions... Continue reading »

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