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  • Crop-killing drought will cost you at the grocery store
  • By TERRY SAVAGE  |  @07-23-12
  • While politicians are still wrangling over the twin deficit dangers of tax and spending cuts, an even more dangerous financial crisis is about to hit the economy: the food prices crisis. The searing temperatures and drought in the heartland of America have already devastated the corn crop — and ...

  • Sawtooth Trading Hits Coke, IBM, McDonald's, and Apple Shares
  • By Paul Vigna and Tom Lauricella  |  @07-20-12
  • Call it the rise of the machines. The markets have been erratic lately, for sure. But erratic trading patterns in four blue-chip stocks on Thursday showed a bizarre correlation, setting the market chateratti abuzz on an otherwise quiet summer afternoon. Dow components Coca-Cola, IBM, McDonald's, as well ...

  • Mapping the Internet: Undersea cables
  • By Andrew Blum  |  @07-19-12
  • Data has a long way to travel across the World Wide Web. It needs a lot of help getting around. FORTUNE -- If the Internet is a global phenomenon, it's because there are fiber-optic cables underneath the ocean. Light goes in on one shore and comes out the other, ...

  • PROFILE-PFGBest chief: Prickly Iowa hero met stiff welcome in Chicago
  • By Ann Saphir and P.J. Huffstutter  |  @07-13-12
  • (Reuters) - Russell Wasendorf Sr., the founder and CEO at failed futures brokerage PFGBest who now stands accused of a massive fraud, has a giant smile and a jeweled pinky ring, a private jet and a temper. "You could have not sent me a more clear ...

  • Meet the New Market Makers, Same as the Old Market Makers (‘Dark Pools’ Review)
  • From Internet  |  @07-12-12
  • 'Dark Pools' is a fun, intelligent, beach weekend read. Apart from the obvious Wall Street / HFT focus, the book struck me as a cross between War Games, The Matrix, and Terminator: Rise of the Machines. You immediately enter a world of high tech mayhem, with super-algos, blaster bots, and hunter-sniper cloaking ...

  • UPDATE 3-Louis Dreyfus sued by trader over cotton squeeze
  • From Internet  |  @07-12-12
  • * Louis Dreyfus said to illegally corner cotton mkt in 2011 * Case filed by former senior trader at Glencore * Dreyfus has no immediate comment By Josephine Mason and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, July 2 (Reuters) - Commodity trading giant Louis Dreyfus Commodities BV has been sued by a former senior trader at ...

  • 6 Reasons Why Day-Trading Your 401k is a Recipe for Disaster
  • BY Ken Sweet, Contributor   |  @07-10-12
  • Apparently it's now kosher to day-trade your retirement account, at least that is what The Los Angeles Times told investors on Monday. I didn't know what to make of the story when I first read it – other than I wanted to hit my head repeatedly against ...

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