WR Grace: Another 43 Million Settlement?
March 11, 2011
Montana negotiating $43 million asbestos settlement - daily inter lake: local/montana | www.dailyinterlake.com
Will WR Grace ever stop paying for its mistake?
Trailer & Truck Underride Issues Are Not Simple - But Expensive & An Opportunity
March 5, 2011
Insurance Institute Wants Underride Guard Improvements | www.truckinginfo.com
Cars underriding BIG trucks and trailers rear-end and sides have been going on for decades. I offer as a historian that there have been many improvements in minimizing the effects of such, but we keep changing other things that increases the risk. Could higher Gross Weight Combination help here? We offer that it would...
Oil Drilling to Resume in the Gulf?
March 4, 2011
Noble Energy Gets First Permit for Deepwater Gulf Drilling - NYTimes.com | www.nytimes.com
Should the drilling resume so quickly in the Gulf?
March 3, 2011
USDA unveiled its acreage assumptions for 2011 wheat, corn and soybeans. Much more important will be the March Prospective Plantings USDA report. You must include the three key drivers when making a choice.
YRCW Numbers Follow LTL Market - Yet Dependent On Economic Recovery & Oil Price
March 2, 2011
YRC Reaches Tentative Agreement on Debt Restructuring | www.truckinginfo.com
YRC Worldwide announced they were offering another debt for stock deal to keep things going. Some folks calculate we still have excess capacity in the Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) sector, so what does this mean for YRC's profit potential? Then there is the oil price impact on the consumer, trucking rates and flowing fuel costs.
Understanding the Low Prices of the Rare Earths in China Itself
February 27, 2011
Li Gang, Deputy Gov. of the Peoples Bank of China said on Sat, Feb 26,2011 “In addition to boosting the flexibility of the yuan exchange rate, China also should adjust resource prices to address imbalances,” he said, “as many resources are still traded in China at below their natural prices[ Emphasis added by me]. China also should boost wages and social benefits to lift consumption, step up its enforcement of environment regulations and undertake other structural reforms to address imbalances.”
Why Toyota and Daimler Looked At And Passed On Tesla
February 26, 2011
It is far cheaper for Global 1000 manufacturers to pay technology developers for a look-see at their wares than to try and develop tens of thousands of even good ideas in-house. Toyota and Daimler follow this rule of limiting their costs on reserach and development.For this reason, primarily, they both paid some money or, in the case of Toyota, gave a discount to Tesla for a look at its battery use technology.Neither one seems to have been impressed.The pump and dump press has ignored this.
Pharmaceutical Companies Win a Huge Victory!
February 24, 2011
Supreme Court rules against parents in vaccine case | yourlife.usatoday.com
Should the US Government & Pharmaceutical companies be immune from lawsuits regarding immunizations?
Tobacco Companies: Big Win, actually its Biggest Loss!
February 22, 2011
fla. ruling big tobacco won comes back to bite it | www.washingtonpost.com
Should you at times leave well enough alone?
Class 8 Diesel Engine Trends - Integrated Approaches Showing In Market Share
February 21, 2011
Truck-builders are moving toward putting their own engines in their own trucks / buses (internal / vertical integration) addressing a variety of issues including cost, profits, complexity, etc. Cummins Inc. and (now non-player) Caterpillar, Inc. share has been displaced by integrated approaches of Volvo, Paccar, Inc and Navistar Corporation. That trend is showing up in the Wards Communications numbers, which we our share "derived share-info" in the following.
Shale gas abundance provides new options for energy companies
February 13, 2012
Chesapeake Energy bites the natural gas bullet
January 25, 2012
Flurry of newbuild drilling rig deliveries in 2012 may dampen rig rates
January 20, 2012
Talisman joins the ranks of cautious E&P companies
January 12, 2012
Early signs of caution begin to cloud frontier exploration and production
January 4, 2012