May 8, 2008
Cyclone May Blow Sequential Count Out of the Water
Rice Gains for Fifth Day on Myanmar Cyclone, Increased Demand
“Cyclone Nargis struck the country’s main rice-growing area on May 3 … Myanmar had been expected to export 600,000 tons of rice this year … If Myanmar becomes a net importer it ‘will seriously affect the prices of rice globally’ … Myanmar’s government has declared a state of emergency in five low-lying provinces in the Irrawaddy delta. The five account for about two-thirds of the country’s rice production and half of its irrigated area.”
Folks were hoping that the weekly trend in rough rice would exhaust around the $20 mark, but since the cyclone hit Burma all bets are off.
Cat: | Time: 4:03 pm (utc+8)
May 9th, 2008 at 9:05 am
wow~, chinese Windows?
May 9th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Jay: Yes, and it’s even a legitimate version. :-) Incidentally the language “localization” is pretty impressive on the Bloomberg — they have a team in Shanghai devoted to it.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:04 am
CM: out of curiosity, how fast is your desktop/labtop and how many gig of RAM do you use on it?
May 9th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Brandon: I have no idea. I’m not a technically savvy guy, I just push the button and it either works or it doesn’t.
May 9th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Well, legtimate chinese windows…..the intersting question is: how much is a totally illegitamate pw&login for BloombergAnywhere. Which “streetcorner” in Beijing would I have to go to? (A web address would be o.k. for me, too) ;)
May 9th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
j: Bloomberg Anywhere requires a neat little credit-card sized thingamajig which you have to hold up against the screen — the screen then flashes its Morse code — and voila you get a password for your username. Darn close to foolproof security, and exactly what you’d expect when the service goes for 1800 bucks a month.
May 10th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Anyway, before thinking about a Bloomberg, I guess I better learn to apply the programs already installed on my PC, e.g. the spellchecker.
May 10th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
So is it WORTH $1800 a month? I mean, that’s a half-hour of Eliot’s sloppy seconds!
Seriously, other than tracking some obscure indices, the “Facebook”-style profiles of folks in the business, and other assorted whatnot, what can you get there that you can’t get for a few hundred a year somewhere else?
May 10th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Bill: It’s the depth and breadth of info, plus the “one-stop shop” factor, that makes it cost what it does. They have 260,000 subscribers who think that it’s worth it.
May 10th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Yeah, but millions of Americans drive GM cars and hundreds of bloggers contribute to Seeking Alpha, and Big Picture is one of the most popular blogs. Obviously, large numbers of customers aren’t the be-all and end-all of qualitative analysis …
Examples of breadth/depth, pls?
May 10th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Bill: Take a test drive and you’ll be hooked.
May 11th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Next time I visit I’ll try yours.
May 11th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Bill: You can go to any Bloomberg office and spend some time with their always lovely saleswomen … much more pleasant than having to suffer the Chairman’s bad breath and occasional outbursts. :)