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Study: Price gap threatens Chicago Board of Trade's wheat futures market

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A commodity market that has long helped wheat growers and processors manage price risks could lose its relevance unless the Chicago Board of Trade bridges a wide gap between futures and cash prices, a new University of Illinois ...





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Gartner said in a statement that semiconductor revenue is on pace to fall 11.4 percent this year

Semiconductor revenue to fall 11 percent: Gartner

Technology / Business

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to decline by more than 11 percent in 2009 over last year, less than previously forecast, market research firm Gartner said Monday.


Limits on futures trading could boost gas prices, expert says

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 25, 2008 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 7

Proposals to reign in wallet-draining gasoline prices by curbing speculation in oil markets would likely increase costs at the pump instead of trimming them, a University of Illinois economist says.


Study: Oil speculators dominate open interest in oil futures

Other Sciences / Economics

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A new policy paper by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy shows a clear increase in the size and influence of noncommercial traders, or "speculators," in the oil futures market since regulations were eased ...


Elpida Completes Development of 1-Gigabit GDDR5

Elpida Completes Development of 1-Gigabit GDDR5

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory, today announced that it had developed a 1-gigabit GDDR5 (product name: EDW1032BABG) that operates at a world-class high speed ...


UK economy is hostage to oil, warns expert

UK economy is hostage to oil, warns expert

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 09, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The UK's economy cannot make a sustainable recovery until it breaks free of its dependence on oil, an expert at the University of Liverpool is warning.


Cisco announces its first servers, riling rivals

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc. wants a bigger chunk of the corporate computing market, and plans to start selling servers in competition with old partners like Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM Corp.


Game theory and machine learning offer better bidding strategies

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- By combining techniques from game theory and artificial intelligence, computer scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a better way to find the best bidding strategy in a simulated auction ...


Breast cancer: A market-driven industry

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created Aug 22, 2006 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

A Canadian scientist is questioning the effectiveness of privately funded efforts to stop the epidemic of breast cancer among North American women.


Grid computing, the new commodity

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a platform for trading computing resources that allows the selling and buying of standardised computing resources. In the process, they could make computing a utility like ...


Is nitrogen the new carbon?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 3

In looking forward to the next Green Revolution, researchers have been carefully examining the role of nitrogen fixation in delivering successful crops around the globe.



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