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How to Profit From the “Fertilizer Wars”

There’s nothing like scarcity and supply disruptions to fuel violent price spikes. And there’s nothing like the basic human needs for food and water to light that fuse.

Today’s world food supplies run on razor-thin inventories.

While the food riots of 2008 have all but disappeared from our short-term memories, the threat of them returning grows stronger with every passing day.

According to the World Bank, food prices increased 83% between February 2005 and February 2008. In April 2008, when the United Nation’s World Food Programme warned that a “silent tsunami” of hunger was sweeping the globe because of soaring food prices, it was more than just a clever sound bite tossed off by a bureaucrat: It was a warning that the world’s poor were being squeezed as increasingly higher portions of their family incomes were being spent on the food they required for their very survival.

Improved fertilizers will be a key to the solution of this problem. And they won’t just promote crop growth – savvy investors who fertilize their portfolios will be pleased with their profit harvest.

Let me explain …

To discover how to profit from zooming fertilizer prices, please read on….

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Buy, Sell or Hold: Ford Motor Co. Is Ready to Haul In a Fortune for Investors

Last week the Money Map team got together at the Baltimore Marriott and had a two-day conclave to discuss the market and what we can do to better serve you. We had many productive exchanges about our market views, preferred ways to profit, and other important issues.

Keith Fitz-Gerald, Martin Hutchinson and Shah Gilani all had terrific ideas that I am sure you will be reading about here in Money Morning, as well as in their trading services and in the Money Map Report.

But ultimately, we all see opportunities to make very good money out there.

I saved this one for you: Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F).

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PetroChina, Shell Target Australia’s Arrow Energy

Oil companies Royal Dutch Shell PLC (NYSE ADR: RDS.A) and PetroChina Co. Ltd. (NYSE ADR: PTR) yesterday (Monday) made a joint offer for Australian energy producer Arrow Energy Ltd. in yet another demonstration of how China is turning Australia into its personal commodities broker.

The $3.4 billion (A$3.26 billion) deal would give shareholders A$4.45 per share – a 28% premium from Friday’s share price – and a share in a new Arrow international-business entity for each current Arrow share.

Market reaction was favorable as Arrow’s prices soared 47% Monday following the news, up to A$5.11 on the Australian stock exchange (ASX).

“It’s an opportunistic bid and good for Arrow shareholders,” Tim Schroeders, Pengana Capital portfolio manager, told CNBC.

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