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|By Roger Strukhoff
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|July 13, 2011 07:46 AM EDT
Well, analysis paralysis is something that comes to writers as well as organizations. A mild form of writer's block, it occurs when there is too much to say, but not enough time or energy to say it.
Such was my thought today as I worked to give you 500 or so great words.
I was intrigued by a column by a person with one of the major research companies, who said that today is one to mark, because "our beloved cloud computing market showed significant signs of maturing." This assessment was based on big announcements from VMWare, Citrix, and Microsoft - all of which you can read about @sysconmedia.
Actually, I thought the Citrix announcement was more about Cloud.com - whose CEO I was lucky enough to interview recently - and the $200 million at which it was valued. There continues to be real gold in them-thar open-source hills.
The Summer of Cloud
But I also thought this researcher was just slightly behind the times, as my friend and colleague Jeremy Geelan proclaimed this "the summer of Cloud" more than a month ago, when the 8th International Cloud Expo opened to hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of guests.
In fact, that was the week that rocked the cloud, according to a report I filed on June 7. For starters, Cloud Expo started to feel almost mainstream, as the certitude of cloud computing gave the show a practical and focused, rather than revolutionary, air.
In addition to Cloud Expo, the week saw an Apple WWDC in which Steve Jobs defined cloud computing on his terms; other large, corporate events from HP, IBM, and Dell (all of whom are talking cloud cloud cloud these days); the latest edition of the E3 Expo (with much talk of how gaming is moving toward the cloud); and on a smaller scale, an Android meetup in Seattle.
So yes, our beloved cloud computing market showed significant signs of maturing - in June, not today.
Now, Onto Jeremy
Thinking about Jeremy means thinking about a column he wrote yesterday about his battle with the chemotherapy that has followed his surgery earlier this year for pancreatic cancer.
Grim as the story is, I had to laugh when I saw him decry that he is now sleeping 12 hours per day. Anyone who knows Jeremy knows that his unflagging humor and energy are seldom interrupted by more than 4 hours of sleep per day.
Prior to his surgery, he was among the stronger people on the planet, with an archetypal vice-like grip, the ability to do a 10-mile run at 5am, run back and forth between TV lights and the main stage at Cloud Expo for 12+ hours, then dash off another 5 or 6 miles that evening for good measure.
So I'll take his current sleeping pattern as his body's way of restoring him to his previous uncanny strength. This summer of cloud will be followed by several more decades of its inevitable reform of the way we think about computing, and Jeremy needs to observe it, write about it - and help drive it - for a long time to come.
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Does growing your own vegetables save money?
The thread started by Raptor, asking for help as a beginning gardener, has me asking this question. How many gardeners are actually saving money growing their own vegetables? I find myself wondering if anyone has actually kept track of their expenditures and calculated how many vegetables they produce and what it would cost them to buy it. I have not.
Personally, I'm sure I'm not saving money. I don't have ideal conditions. I don't have a lot of land, and the one thing that is most difficult to overcome, lack of full sun, limits the amount of food I can grow. Gardening is an activity that I just happen to love to do, so saving money on produce has not been a factor.
But I like to think that there are people who can save money growing their own food. Well, I have read accounts of individuals with a lot of love of growing and motivation who have done that, but I don't think they are the 'average' gardener.
So, what are your experiences? Are you growing to 'save money'? And do you think you are accomplishing that?
The last two years if I take into account the stuff I bought to set up the garden since I moved into my current house just a few years ago I may not have saved $. I spent $ on materials for tomato cages, raised beds, containers, seed starting setups.
I've raised a bunch of veggies. And the quality is great, they are fresh picked and I got to choose the varieties I wanted.
Next year I may save money because I will have very few expenses. I'm going to save seeds, so really all I will pay for next year is soil amendments/fertilizer and water.
And it seems to me that the price of grocery store produce is rising.
look into permaculture and Hugelculture.
after the initial setup, it costs virtually nothing and is less work too.
Fruit trees are a good bang-for-the-buck
the can provide food for many years.
For me, it has to do with vitamins and minerals which are almost non-existent in grocery veggies and fruits.
what price do you put on that ?
Here is a link that might be useful: permaculture gardenweb
An interesting ?? lol i seriously doubt I've saved money in fact probably cost more particularly tomato lol.
For me the advantage is quality .Amazes me how they can grow such beautiful looking fruit and have the flavor of styrofoam . ?? Since there is only the two of us i try to grow generally expensive or hard to find produce Such as tropical fruits ,citrus herbs. winter crops of tomato, english peas,chard, leaf lettuce . After building raised beds , irrigation systems , buying seedlings feeding the bugs various sprays etc etc lol
Quality ?? yes . Saved money ??no gary
I think I am saving money.
We are lucky to have the land and a sunny spot for the garden.
We barter wood from our dead trees for aged cow manure. I use paper pots to raise my seedlings and I save waxed OJ and milk containers to transplant them in.
It's really not about saving money though. What price do you put on vegetables grown without chemicals that taste really good, and being able to run outside and pick something fresh for supper?
It's like a well-insulated house, LED light bulbs, things like that. I did not spend $800 on insulation because it would save me money quickly. It's probably not even a good investment. I did it so I could keep my house at 72 degrees -- and not feel bad about it! If I didn't have the insulation, the thermostat would be set higher. Likewise with the lights. I would prefer to keep my lights on more and I can do it with a clearer conscience if it's not costing me as much.
So, you know, I wouldn't buy and eat 4-5 tomatoes a day, so I'm not really saving money -- but I do enjoy eating them all the same.
In some cases yes, in some cases no.
I have been gardening all of my life, so I have all of the tools, cages, ETC. So I save money, if I don't count the labor!
But it is a labor of love!
My biggest expense is amendments and when something breaks and/or when I splurge on something new like some expensive seed or a new gadget.
I save most of my seed.
Sometimes it gets someone out of a bind when they are short on money like another thread here. Linked below.
Here is a link that might be useful: Sometimes
Money is not the reason I garden. I love plants, look forward to growing plants in spring when winter is too long spending much time researching them. You couldn't drag me to an exercise machine but I will stretch beyond my limit to reach a weed to pull. I have read in several places gardening is the best hobby for health. You have to like it though. Grandma or Mom or someone has to get you started so it is a part of your personality. If I weren't gardening I might do something more expensive with my time.
I know for a fact that growing my own fruits and vegetables saves me money because I not only grow them but I preserves and store them. Like wertach I bought all the tools etc. for both gardening and preserving years, if not decades ago - at those prices. Buying the same equipment today would cost me at least 3x as much if not more.
I also aggressively compost for my soil, save most of my own seeds, and can, freeze, and dehydrate like crazy. So very few trips to the grocery store for our house and from what I read and hear the grocery prices now days could put many in the poor house.
But thanks to our gardens and food preservation we can't eat like summer all year round and don't have to worry much about store prices for food.
So if new at it and it isn't saving you money now, stick with it. 10 years from now when prices are even higher it will be saving you lots of $$$.
This comes up every year on blogs, forums, magazines, lifestyle newspaper articles....
The '35 dollar tomato' theme. Often hilarious. Dad takes 5yr old daughter to a bigbox store and daughter wants a garden....
Like any small business plan, (without a plan), one each of 24 products on a shelf will not cover costs.
Not much more effort to start from saved seeds from an exchange and start a compost pile...
And some healthy physical labor.
My neighbors spend i think 2800 now on lawn care and snow removal yearly. Not a blink.
We mow and do it ourselves and did flag a plow down once and got a quick driveway plow for a 20buck...once in eight years.
2800 is alot of garden fun and fruit trees, grapes, berries....
Just priorities, and the 30 meals during the winter just from the various ways i store and harvest tomatoes...so much better than any purchased grocery stock.
The first harvest of salad greens two weeks ago....priceless....
I think once you get past initial investments for building the garden and get over the initial new gardener fretting and worrying and buying ever pesticide available, you can start to get more than you put into it. Especially if you manage to avoid wasting what you grow by using it and preserving it (I am trying but so not there yet).
i had 4 papaya trees which meant i had a very ripe papaya ever other day or so.
more than i could eat. and they fruited year round,and i ate a lot of them :)
then guavas, then oranges, then lettuce tomato, passionfruit
other things - bits here and there.
basil, onion, peppers, added to pizza, or grilled...
hell, i pick dandelion leaves and eat them while in the garden.
every few calories from the garden, is a few you dont buy in the store,
and is ALWAYS more healthy
In some cases it might save you money.
If you grow in a large scale, and can/preserve, then you can definitely save. Also, there are things that you can direct sow and let it grow without spending on equipments ; like lettuce, carrots, ..But if you buy them in 6-packs, you are better off to buy them already grown and packed in the grocery stores. I learned that about growing corn, years ago.Or I don't bother with cabbage. I can buy @ 50 cent per pound and forget the cabbage worms.
The other aspect of home gardening is "HOBBY". That is what it is to me, mostly. I like to be outdoors, get fresh air, exercise and watch my plants grow. I also do get crops and enjoy them. Some years I stop buying tomato products , I also can sauce for winter use.
So really it depends on the scale that one plants various veggies.
This is my first year gardening and I am trying to spend as little as possible.
In most cases this has meant spending a lot of time and labor. I couldn't buy soil or build boxes so I had to focus on improving the soil that I have. I removed about 2 tons of rocks from my 40 x 16 foot garden plot(no exaggeration). Started relatively large scale composting with free manure and "donated" leaves and anything else I can scavenge. I use only hand tools some of which were given to me and others I purchased.
I built boxes and trellises out of entirely scavenged or reclaimed wood.
I started all of my own seedlings (except sweet potato slips) under shop lights in my basement.
This was tons of time and energy. I figure i have burned something like 60000 calories since last july when i moved into this house. and to think some people pay for gym memberships.
Even so, I spent ~$200 on seeds, seed potatoes, and slips; ~200 dollars on my grow lights setup; ~150 dollars on a drip irrigation system (I live in a desert); ~$75 on a low tunnel for season extension (not necessary. for fun). plus maybe a hundred dollars on hand tools and some money for fertilizer. I figure I am up to about $750.
Most of these expenses are one time or will only need to be made once every several years. I will always buy seeds but never again on so large a scale (I can save some seeds and I also planted many perennial herbs).
My garden is relatively large for a suburban garden. It should produce more than hundred pounds of potatoes, a hundred pounds of sweet potatoes, 150 pounds of tomatoes (which i will turn into sauce and pressure can), 50 lbs of onions 16 heads of garlic, 50 lbs of carrots, 25 lbs of snap beans plus unlimted salads in the spring and fall, pumpkins for eating and carving, summer squash and cucumbers in the summer, plenty of snap peas in the spring, and a few heads each of cauliflower, broccoli, and cabbage.
I sold some of my extra plants. I may not totally break even this year. But by the end of year two there is no question that I will be ahead.
Here is my garden a few days ago (sorry. I used a cheap online panorama tool and there are some blurry spots where it stitched things together). The rows from left to right are salad, potatoes, squash, sweet potatoes (replaced snap peas), onions garlic and carrots, tomatoes, brassicas (empty until the fall crop), and pole beans. the herb boxes and some flowers are in other places.
Like others, I already spent some money years ago for the initial setup or I salvaged certain gardening items from going into the trash. A lot of my tools were hand-me-downs from relatives, and I still use them to this day. I don't think I've ever bought a shovel in my life.
Usually my main expenditure now is seeds. I save seeds from my garden, but I like to have tons of variety so I purchase more seeds, probably more than I should.
Still, I only spent ~$25 on all of my gardening supplies this year and I have probably recouped my money from all the spring veggies we have already harvested. Still waiting for pepper/beans/corn/tomatoes to all ripen, but once they do, I am absolutely sure we will have eaten enough fresh, organic produce to far surpass what little money I spent earlier in the year.
Here is a link that might be useful: My blog about frugal vegetable gardening
(sheepishly) well, it made my panorama super tiny anyway.
I think the point I should have made is that gardening is a skill that shouldn't be lost. I could have paid for soil and compost and plants, I have the money (or i definitely could have made plenty given the time i have spent).
but the whole point for me is to see if i can feasibly grow my own food in my own soil and (eventually) from seeds i have saved.
People WANT to believe they save money. It makes them feel good. I get that. By the time I buy all my supplies, give much away, learn by mistake, and eat more than I should...I save a ton of money. haha. The truth is most of us really enjoy the journey and the freshest great quality harvests. That is enough for me.
"People WANT to believe they save money. It makes them feel good."
lets see...
i buy a papaya i was going to eat anyway.
it has 500 or so seeds in it.''
in 12 months i have several trees producing enough fruit for me to eat one every day if i want to.
normally, i get about 5 to 10% of my diet from papaya.
more, when i have lots of trees !
not to mention the Mulberry guava and other fruit trees
(many more will start to produce in the next year or 2)
i have bought stuff in the past, but now, mostly i make my own compost, and aside from a little rock dust here and there, or a stamp to trade seeds online, but now, i spend almost nothing except my time, but i enjoy that :)
"It is possible to save money, but for most, unlikely."
Given today's produce prices, I disagree, as long as one does not put a dollar value on one's time. I don't, because I enjoy gardening.
And with lasagna gardening/raised beds, expensive rototillers are not necessary.
There are all sorts of shiny catalogs with expensive stuff for sale, but you get that with anything you try to do. GW advice helps separate the snake oil from the real deals, and helps suggest ways to succeed without spending a bundle.
In addition, advice about intensive gardening means that almost anyone can be successful growing a significant amount of veggies even if they don't have a lot of room.
What to you value a tomato that actually tastes like a tomato at? I can't get one for any price at a store or "farmers" (HA!) market. The same can be said for garlic... I have two choices, tiny tasteless bulbs from china at 25 cents each or "Gourmet / Organic" stuff at 3+ dollars each (and often moldy). I can go on... ripe Jalapeno peppers, any kind of Poblano pepper.. et cetera.
I would say that as for saving money, until now it has been a close run thing (and I'm cheap), but I recently got the hydroponic bug and my wife has started joking about $600 salads...
I'm definitely in the save money camp. I grow enough in my 3/4 acre garden to feed myself at least $400 per month of healthy vegetables. The time and labor involved keeps me healthy and active so I offset the labor costs against medical bills and health club memberships. I produce enough seed to sell $1000 to $2000 per year which pretty much pays for my tillers, tractor, seed, fertilizer, etc
This year, I have the following growing:
6 rows of beans
2 rows of english peas
1 1/2 rows of potatoes
1/2 row of cabbage, cauliflower, and broccoli
7 rows of corn
1/2 row of okra
1 row of cotton (for seed and fiber)
7 rows of tomatoes (about 320 plants)
14 hills of watermelon
14 hills of cantaloupe
6 hills of cucumber
2 rows of cowpeas
1/4 row of moschata winter squash
1/2 row of sweetpotatoes
1 row of peppers about 8 varieties
4 rows of peanuts
Rows are about 110 feet long.
Jonathan, first year gardening, great garden ! I love Utah, awesome quality of life, great place to live ! You're a happy guy !
Although I don't pay for manure and water (a great thank you to my hippy new age neighbors who have retired ponys and free water and let me enjoy the poop and the hose), I don't think I'll save much because up to now what has grown is mostly leaves ;-(
And bermuda grass :-(
But I save a lot : by being happy outside in my garden instead of wasting my hard earned money on useless chinese crap in the mall ;-)
Yes, but only because I am canning 80 - 100 quarts of tomatoes yearly, plus another 40 quarts of juice. I spend about $100 per year to get the garden started. Another $50 for canning supplies. Of course I already have cages, tiller, etc bought many years ago.
Not to mention loads of fresh tomatoes to eat that now are sold for a dollar or more a pound at the markets.
You would be amazed at the amount of good casseroles you can make with canned tomatoes besides the usual chili, lasagna, spaghetti, etc.
In the end though it's about the fun and the superior flavor of home grown .
I know we do NOT save money ... however, having fresh herbs all year is worth it. And, the SO likes growing and smoking chilis and he likes Armenian cucumbers. Tomatoes, too.
For me, it has to do with vitamins and minerals which are almost non-existent in grocery veggies and fruits. Care to back that up with some links to real chemical analysis?
Fusion_power, your garden is the size I grew nearly 40 years ago. It's lots of work, especially if you have a full-time job elsewhere, kids that are involved in school activities, and other normal daily life activities. BUT, it is so definitely worth it, isn't it!! I wish I had pictures of our garden back in those years, but sadly I don't.
The freshness of the produce, the ability to make sauces seasoned the way your family likes from your tomatoes, the cucumbers that you don't have to peel to get the wax off that is put on commercially grown ones, the ability to mix snaps and shellers to your preference in your blackeyes peas (cow peas) - I could make this a really long list - is priceless.
The exercise you get, the satisfaction you receive, and the lessons you can teach to young children as they watch the plants grow is extremely hard to replicate. Then, there is the sunflower house that you can plant for the children's summer play house........ Can you tell I am a dedicated gardener?
May all your gardens be abundantly productive.
" But the minute you buy that new $500 rototiller... "
Yes, I thought the same thing in 1988 when I bought a new rear tine tiller for $300!
I still use it....... It ain't purty but it gets the job done!
I can and freeze enough to feed us all winter.
So, if you don't save money, will you stop growing your own produce? If you say yes, then definitely stop. That is not the reason most of us grow our own veggies and herbs. We enjoy making our own food and eating something that we know we helped make.
The process is just so enjoyable that I don't know why anybody even tries to figure out what it costs unless you are a farmer or are growing for profit. Only then does it make sense.
There are many people on limited or fixed incomes. For them it is important to save money, and might be important to them to figure out whether they would be saving money after the initial startup costs. They might want to know which veggies are easy to grow and have high yields.
It is enjoyable, yes, but to some it may be also an important way to make ends meet.
For me, yes it does, but not so much directly pound for pound compared to buying supermarket produce. A few years ago I was thinking about the fact that when I was younger I definitely preferred fruits and veggies to all kinds of junk food, and that had pretty radically changed over the past 25 years or so. After a while I realized that it was because it's just not all that satisfying when you couldn't tell whether you were eating a peach, a zucchini, or a tomato if you were blindfolded, and that's pretty much the way I feel about most of what's available at the market. And that's why I started growing my own vegetables.
So I find that when I grow my own vegetables that actually taste like food, I'm satisfied with a lot less other stuff in my diet, and that's definitely a big savings, not feeling inclined to buy frozen dinners, chips, etc..
Besides which, although I grow expensively (very small space, use real earthboxes and not knock-offs, etc.), the way produce prices are increasing around here is just plain insane and pretty soon it may actually be cheaper pound for pound, too.
I agree with allready mentioned benifits of gardening and will add. Is it a savings if i don't require medical treatment caused by DDT on Mexico fruit and produce? Is there no value in the peace of mind knowing I can grow it if need arises? And teaching my children the same? And last but certainly not least. How are savings calculated for people who use food stamps to buy what they are too lazy to grow for themselves?
I think this thread got distracted away from the original question that focused on if there is or can be a financial benefit to gardening.
I think the replies all universally agree that there are lots of fringe benefits. ie. my kids will try home grown vegetables, i am no longer vitamin d deficient, etc etc.
But I am wondering what the intent of the OP is... to prove that gardening is expensive... or to discover how it can be profitable.
In case of the former I think we are doomed to confirm his bias: I think most of us here love it. Who else frequents GardenWeb? and so we often spend a little more than we must or than we should because it is a pursuit worth paying for. I don't pay for cable. I pay for fancy seeds. and for low tunnel projects.
In case of the latter, I think we can all give advice to someone who wants their garden to pay real returns in a lower grocery budget for at least part of the year. The link shared earlier to the frugal gardener guy had some good ideas. My first compost pile was 4 pallets tied together and filled with manure, shredded newspaper, sawdust, moldy straw, and grass clippings. All of which are available free in nearly every town in the united states if you know where to look. I suppose I am assuming a person has a patch of ground. But you can even borrow some of that in a pinch. I bet you could get a few seeds from nearly any gardener in your town. I know I'd be happy to share my extra if someone asks.
I am confident that in most places in North America you can start and grow a productive vegetable garden that will give you hundreds of dollars of vegetables for less than 50 bucks a year. It will be lots of work. Just because most of us GardenWebbers aren't doing that doesn't constitute evidence to the contrary.
Finally, in response to the OP, there are lots of blogs floating around the web where they show their expenses and their savings to demonstrate that they are better off. Daphne's Dandelions and several of her affiliate blogs come immediately to mind. there is another called a hundred dollars a month or some such.
You are right. IF Tomato cost $2 per pond in store and you spend $300 to harvest 50 lbs of tomatoes, you are not saving any money.
BUT:On the other hand:
What is financial benefit and what does one do with it?
Say you make good money and turn around and spend it to get joy and satisfaction : buy a nice car, wear nice clothes, etc. There is something in economics called "utility". That is what you get when you spend; It can be a young boys pocket money spent on ice ream or bubble gum. I am not talking about the basic needs here.
One can spend his money to go to a nice restaurant and wine and dine and one can spend it on garden supplies and enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables and get equal satisfaction that money can buy.
That is how I look at it to justify doing what I do. Otherwise I would feel foolish.
i think if you WANT to save $ you can
its pretty easy to buy an heirloom tomato at the store for $2 and plant the seeds. most people have a shovel, or some such.
Obviously, if thats not imoprtant, and you do it for the exersice and enjoyment and nutrition which is better homegrown, then, it really doesnt matter much for many people.
to me, its a bit of both.
i can certianly afford to buy food, but i love my "ripe" fresh fruit.
guava, papaya, other fruits.
also peppers and TOMS
all taste better.
store bought produce is often grown ijn nutrient deficient soils
if you havbe ever eaten a papaya , ripe from a tree, its night and day to the ones you buy at the store, that has to be picked GREEN to be shipped from Mexico or Hawaii.
the difference in taste and nutrients are night and day
a papaya at the store is $2 to $3 a pound
$6 for an average fruit. i eat in 2 days just for snacks.
I can say for sure that I probably don't save money initially because I bought the grow bags, the promix, bark fines, etc, the seeds, cages, poles, whatever. I don't garden to sell my veggies, and although I do make sauce, I mostly grow tomatoes, cukes and herbs for the sheer pleasure of it. I guess growing from seed instead of buying plants saves money, but I admit, the grow lights, and equipment had a cost, but over time it's worth it. Bottom line, we all garden for our own reasons and gardening is a journey, wherever it takes us. There is nothing quite like watching something grow and bloom, except having kids, lol! And watching them grow and bloom, too! And you are outside getting the best therapy in the world. And, you get to exchange ideas on forums like this, which is priceless!
Out of six children, I am the only gardener. I like to grow fruits and vegetables that taste better homegrown like tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, cukes....Stuff that takes up too much room, is dirt cheap in the Fall, or is bothered by pests, I can buy those at the grocery store.
I must admit that I simplified my gardening as I got older. These days, I only plant what we can reasonably consume. The first couple of years I gardened, I canned over two hundred jars of pickles, relishes, tomatoes...some of it got used but some got tossed a few years later.
I don't see it as a money saving venture because I can certainly afford to buy whatever I need in the stores...I garden because I like doing it and it is rewarding to eat flavourful, fresh food.
I can grow my own tomatoes for less than $3 per pound for a nice heirloom at the local market. However I go without before spending that much for a tomato. I grow them because it's a passion.
I can't compete with a 106 oz can of tomato puree from Costco for $2.79. I don't know how they do it. If you figure two pounds of tomatoes reduces to one pound for puree it works out to about 20 cents per pound. I buy the puree and then make marinara sauce from it cheaper than I can grow it or buy prepared sauce.
Lettuce is a little different. We used to spend six bucks a week for lettuce, 3 bags times $2 each. A setup for lettuce costs me about $20 for an 18 inch container, potting soil, cage and shade cap. If it lasts five years that's four bucks a year for one setup. It takes about five weeks to grow out an 18 inch rosette and then a week or so downtime. That works out to about eight harvests per year. One eighteen inch head easily matches a bag of lettuce so I am saving about sixteen bucks a year less four for a total of twelve dollars in savings per container. And the lettuce tastes better.

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With Saudi airstrikes in Yemen stoking fears for the oil-rich region, crude prices are getting a huge boost today and dragging beaten down oil-focused exchange-traded funds along for the ride.
The U.S. Oil Fund (USO), which holds about 60,000 crude oil futures contracts, surged 4.8% to $18.20 with more than 33 million shares changing hands, and the iPath S&P GSCI Crude Oil Total Return Index ETN (OIL) climbed 5.2% to almost $11.
And the highly leveraged VelocityShares 3x Long Crude Oil ETN (UWTI) surged more than 14% with more than 77 million shares exchanging hands, making it not only the day's biggest gainer, but also the second-most actively traded exchange-traded product.
The fund has fallen more than 90% over the past 12 months.
Yesterday, Saudi Arabia and its allies launched a military campaign in neighboring Yemen. Airstrikes intended to defend the existing government against Iranian-backed rebels have shaken financial markets and sent gold prices higher as a haven investment.
Crude oil prices are on track to post the first five-session winning-streak since June. Nymex crude for May delivery recently was 4.2% higher at $51.28 a barrel, pushing above $50 for the first time since March 9.
Oil prices slumped back near four-year lows as hopes fade that OPEC, the crude producers' cartel, will agree to reduce output.
Oil prices have plunged by about 30% since the middle of June in a world awash with overproduction and sinking industrial demand.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is slated to meet on Thanksgiving, but already skepticism for a production cut is hitting the market.
Oil prices embarked on a sharp drop mid-morning, with The Wall Street Journal's Nicole Friedman and Christian Berthelsen reporting that a meeting between Venezuela, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Russia's OAO Rosneft yielded no agreement for an oil-production reduction. Russia and Mexico aren't OPEC members but are key players in the debate surrounding oil output. West Texas Intermediate crude futures dropped 1.2% to $74.88 a barrel in recent trading.
Prices perked up shortly before 1:00 p.m., however, following a conflicting story from the WSJ's Benoît Faucon, in Vienna:
OPEC members are inching toward a compromise that could lead them to cut oil supply, as the producer group prepares for one of its most closely watched meetings in years this week.
Tuesday's slide bled into oil-tracking ETFs including the United States Oil Fund (USO) and the iPath S&P GSCI Crude Oil Total Return Index ETN (OIL), which each slumped more than 1%. Barron's Ben Levisohn flagged the hit to producers including Anadarko Petroleum (APC) and Apache (APA).
Energy stocks on the S&P 500 fell most, while ETFs U.S. oilfield-service companies slipped in turn. The
Market Vectors Oil Services ETF (OIH) dropped 1.5%, while the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLE) slipped 0.9%
Electronic trading in crude will run through 1 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, cutting 4 1/4 hours from a full-day's session.
Plunging oil prices have unleashed short-sellers on shares of oilfield-service companies and exchange-traded funds that hold them.
Shares of constituents in Market Vectors Global Unconventional Oil & Gas ETF (FRAK) have seen a spike in demand from short-sellers; short interest in the ETF's constituents has risen, on average, by 9% over the past three months, according to research firm Markit. Barron's Randall Forsyth noted the damage done to the Market Vectors Global Unconventional Oil & Gas ETF earlier this month.
Short sellers borrow shares from other investors and sell them in the hope of buying them back at a lower price later.
Markit says that these so-called unconventional energy companies, those that rely on producers to extract oil and natural gas from shale and oil sands, are at the center of the bearish activity.
These firms flourished during the three years when oil traded north of $100bbl, but we have seen them lag behind the rest of the market as investors take fright of their high marginal cost.
Northern Oil and Gas Inc. (NOG) , which operates in North Dakota's Bakken region, has seen short-interest jump to 23% of shares outstanding. The stock is plumbing three-year lows.
Firms that service new oil and gas exploration have borne the brunt of the energy-patch selling pressure in recent weeks. Prices for U.S. crude futures have tumbled 25% since the middle of June, a stretch over which the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLE) has fallen about 16%.
Tumbling oil prices are threatening to hamper the U.S. energy boom as drillers in the U.S. and Canada as reconsider hydraulic-fracturing projects. These producers tend to break even when crude is between $80 and $85 a barrel, writes The Wall Street Journal.
The Market Vectors Oil Services ETF (OIH) saw its biggest weekly outflow last week, as investors pulled out $209, or 15% of the fund's $1.4 billion in total assets.
The largest shorts in the industry are those related to future production as concerns mount that supply will outpace demand for another year, something which will no doubt crimp investment in extra capacity.
Markit says that the most-shorted single name is small-cap Paragon Offshore PLC (PGN), a London-based company that provides offshore drilling rigs and services. Fully 25% of the firm's shares are out on loan to short-sellers.
Here's some suggested reading for the commute home:
KKR & Co. (KKR) signaled buying opportunities ahead, as choppy markets create conditions that can scare off other investors – Mike Spector, WSJ
By acquiring VelocityShares and hiring Bill Gross, Janus Capital (JNS) says it's laying the groundwork for a bigger future in ETFs — Cinthia Murphy, ETF.com
GoldenTree Asset Management LP took advantage when Bill Gross's departure from PIMCO rattled debt markets last month – Simone Foxman, Bloomberg
S&P 500 nearly erases October losses. Is the rally justified? – Ben Levisohn, Barrons.com
Does the stock market have you frozen with fear? That's OK – Chuck Jaffe, MarketWatch
U.S. crude oil futures fall for a fourth straight week – Barrons.com
Concerns about high global supply continued to weigh on crude oil prices and sent global oil futures falling for yet another week.
Brent, the global benchmark, fell 70 cents, or 0.8%, to $86.13 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe. Prices lost 3 cents on the week.
In the U.S., West Texas Intermediate for December delivery fell $1.08, or 1.3%, to $81.01 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices have fallen near the $80-a-barrel level several times in recent weeks but always bounced back higher.
U.S. futures fell 1.3% this week, posting a fourth weekly loss.
Prices have dropped for months as supply growth has outpaced demand. Market participants are waiting to see whether the OPEC, specifically Saudi Arabia, will reduce production to raise prices. OPEC's next meeting is Nov. 27.
Deutsche Bank analysts Michael Hsueh and Michael Lewis see the supply-demand landscape remaining weak through 2016. In a report published today, the pair write:
…the antidote to the price decline must also largely originate from the supply side. Production from oil sands mining, although high in cost, are associated with large upfront investments in upgrading facilities which means these operations may be less responsive to short-term price movements. Consequently we believe that the most likely sources of supply adjustments are OPEC curtailment and reduced investment in US tight oil production. However, the likelihood of both these events occurring has fallen sharply in our view, owing to a shift in Saudi strategy and lower breakeven estimates for US tight oil. Thus we revise our price forecast deck on the expectation of a longer period of lower pricing to USD90/bbl as OPEC members struggle to coordinate action and the expansion in US tight oil production continues unabated.
In the ETF arena, the Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE) fell 0.35% to close at $85.60. The United States Oil Fund (USO) fell 0.58% to close at $30.88 while the leveraged ProShares Ultra DJ-UBS Crude Oil (UCO) declined 1.09% to close at $24.39.
Exchange traded funds that track oil prices and the energy sector are attracting investors at a brisk pace, despite the recent bear market in crude oil. Investors have been buying into some funds at the fastest speed in two years, placing bets on a rebound in oil prices.
According to Bloomberg, the four biggest oil-linked exchange-traded products listed in the U.S. received a combined $334 million this month through Oct. 20, the most since October 2012. Shares outstanding in the funds, including the United States Oil Fund (USO) and ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Crude Oil (UCO), rose to 55.3 million, a nine-month high, according to the newswire service.
West Texas Intermediate crude oil climbed 1.69% to $81.88 a barrel today after recently hitting a two year low. Brent crude futures rose 2% to $86.40 a barrel. The two benchmarks for U.S. and global oil trading each plunged more than 20 percent from their June highs. Yet some banks say the rout may soon be at an end.
Meanwhile, month-to-date inflows into the largest energy equity sector-linked ETF, the Energy Select Sector SPDR (XLE), totaled $979 million as of Oct. 22, surpassing the other SPDR sector ETF, according to Dan Dolan, director of wealth-management strategies for the Select Sector SPDRs.
As ETF Trends.com reports, investors have been trying to catch the bottom of the fund, which fell almost 16% during the past 13 weeks compared to a 2.6% drop by the S&P 500. The fund engaged in rapid-paced asset gathering earlier this year and again in October, adding $1.1 billion in new assets.
Here's somesuggested morning reading for fund and ETF investors:
Here's some reading for fund and ETF investors:
This month's market turmoil has been a blood bath for hedge funds and the pain has been widespread – Juliet Chung, Rob Copeland and Maureen Farrell, WSJ
Holdings in the biggest exchange-traded product backed by gold, the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), fell by the most in 12 months as investors cut assets even after gold prices rebounded — Glenys Sim and Debarati Roy, Bloomberg
Is it a bad idea to pile into volatility ETFs? – Dave Nadig ETF.com
Brent crude oil made its way toward $86 on Tuesday morning following the release of data which showed that Chinese demand had picked up – Laura Brodbeck, Benzinga.com
Just how profitable is insider trading? Insanely so, according to a recent study – Chris Matthews, Fortune.com
Private equity giants open to smaller investors – William Alden, NY Times
It's finally Friday! And what a wild week it's been. For those of you still standing, here are some suggested readings:
The prospect of unchecked global supply weighed on oil prices Tuesday after the International Energy Agency slashed its oil-demand growth forecast for this year.
The Paris-based IEA issues a closely watched monthly oil-market report. Today, the agency cut its forecast for global demand growth by about one fifth. The new projections come at a time when oil prices have been in a free fall amid slowing growth in Asia and a sputtering European economy, not to mention a divide among OPEC members. Facing price pressure for the last several weeks, the organization has opted to cut prices and defend market share rather than cut production to bolster prices.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in November traded down $2.08, or 2.43%, to $83.66, close to their lowest level in 22 months.
The United States Oil Fund (USO) fell 3.8% to $33.78s while the United States Brent Oil Fund (BNO), at $33.77, lost 3.84%.
The leveraged ProShares Ultra DJ-UBS Crude Oil (UCO) declined 5.56% to $24.73. The Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLE), an ETF of energy stocks, remained almost unchanged at $80.99.
For a look at how pipeline companies, known as MLP, are faring, check out this post by Mike Aneiro.
As exchange-traded funds and other investing vehicles have ballooned in number, the task of figuring out what works well and what doesn't has only gotten harder. Barrons.com's Focus on Funds looks under the hood of ETFs, mutual funds and hedge funds for overlooked values, actionable ideas and the latest pitfalls for fund investors.
Chris Dieterich has covered the U.S. stock market for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. He is a graduate of Regis University and the Missouri School of Journalism.
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There were no "qualified buyers" present at the foreclosure sale of the Big Store, said Oren Klein, from Tranzon Integrated Property Group, who had come all the way from New Jersey to conduct the sale of the store.
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Hybrid Tea--Rose Information
Is there a website that not only shows a picture of a rose, but also rates the rose, tells how tall it gets, disease resistance, growing zone, etc.
AARS used to do this but don't see it anymore.
The closest I'm aware of is Help Me Find-Roses at the link below. You will usually find ranges of sizes due to all information being supplied by site users and the tremendous variation in performance from most roses from one climate and culture type to the next. Any information you desire which isn't there is due to no one volunteering it yet. Please feel free to add your experiences with the roses you like in the "Comments" section. No membership is necessary to access what you seek, but please also consider Premium Membership to help support the site and keep it healthy and alive. It's an invaluable resource. Kim
Here is a link that might be useful: Help Me Find-Roses
There are lots of places that have info: Help Me Find Roses is probably the most obvious source and there are gardeners personal remarks posted too. Vintage Gardens is rather good but mostly expert type advice. Rosenfoto.de has some info in HT. If you do some searching you should be able to find info both local and international. Sorry if I�m only posting the obvious, but these are sites I visit regularly and have for years. It�s nice to read books too, and there is a very good chance there are some by authors not far from you. For hybrid teas older used books can be worth searching for; Amazon and your local antiquarian.
"Disease resistance" is relative to your area, so if you find a rose that you like, best to ask about disease resistance here, you may find someone who lives close to your area with experience. For example, I wouldn't say that any hybrid tea is disease resistant here in NJ.
ALAS! AARS is dead.
Who'd a thunk ARS would out-live it?
The American Rose Society rates roses, based upon reports from members. The problem with their ratings is that they are averaged nationally, and so don't reflect specific local conditions.
IOW, in the beginning, we planted several roses rated very highly by ARS, only to discover that they were DRECH in our conditions.
More better -- contact LOCAL rose societies for area-specific recommendations. They WILL know which HTs succeed in your area. Be careful, though, to specify if you do not plan to spray regularly (or at all) as that would probably significantly alter recommendations.
And ARS can provide contacts for local rose societies in your area, so I would start at the American Rose Society website.
DMoore, great information has been given to you by the experienced rosarians here. I very much agree with sweet Diane's advice about "disease resistance" being relative to your area. I would also add to that, to also consider your own personal micro-climate which also varies in what part of your garden you are putting in a specific rose. All of this applies, especially so, if you are a "no spray" rose grower of which I am. Here in my Spokane Washington semi-arid garden I have the luxury of growing the much maligned HTs "no-spray" without ANY disease problems. Many folks don't have that perk and have given growing HTs an understandably (in their conditions) a bad reputation.
Happy rose growing to you and all!! :-)


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SooWoo in South Beach
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Sense Beach House, Where The Hamptons Meets Miami Beach
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update: wish list swap iii
Hi everyone,
Thanks for your patience. I just got back from the post office. Today I mailed packages to:
I should be done with the rest of them by Wed.
Hi Dave! I received my seeds last evening...and what a pleasant ending to a grim day! I love all my seeds - thanks so much! I appreciate all your hard work in this Robin and for coordinating it so well.
Who won the bonus pack by the way? Thanks again - Lisa
Hi Dave,I just received my seeds yesterday.I love what I got.You managed to get most of my wish list.You have done a excellent job on this swap as Always!This is definitely the the best swap!And to all that granted my wishes Thank you so much.You guys are the best!! Happy Holiday to all!!=)
Hi, Dave--
Just a note to let you know I received my seeds late yesterday afternoon...
Loved 'em all, and can't wait to start planting *grin*.
Thanks for the great swap!
BTW--who did win the prize for the most wishes fulfilled?????
Hi everyone,
What a great swap! We had a total of 1475 packets of seeds exchanged in the swap. A special thanks to the four people who granted the most wishes!
Thanks for all your comments and emails. It been a little hectic around here as we are adding an addition to our home. Atleast next spring I'll have a spot to put my new seedlings. Oh, in case you were wondering, I did get a number of my wishes too. As someone put it "Woooo WHoo!"
PS Look for Wish List Swap IV next fall around Oct 1st.
I got my package yesterday! Thanks so much Dave and to everyone who sent seeds for me. The swap was alot of fun and it was so nice to have a surprise in the mail! Gosh... it was almost like..... like..... CHRISTMAS! LOL!
I can't wait to try all of my new seeds!
Happy Holidays Everyone!
I just have to post again and say how thrilled I am with everything! This has got to be the best envelope I've ever gotten!!! I just sat down last night to REALLY go through everything and complete my winter sowing list and boy am I excited now :) I'm going to have the prettiest shade garden going!!! Thanks again everyone for making my garden so lovely!
Just recieved my package- aint we got fun!?
Thanks to all who partook partaked par.....yeah, who participated that's what I meant!
I'm getting visions of containers full of seeds dancing in my head....along with some of the other stuff in there that's dancing....
eln200meyer, I was the lucky girl who received the veronicastrum. I love it love it all...never heard of "fascination"- don't get out much.
thanks Dave! Im feelin seedy. (happy dance)
Happy New Year Y'all!!! Dave I just now got a chance to thank you very much for all the hard work you did this was the best swap I have participated in so far. Thanks to all the participants as well from what I received seems like people really put thought into fulfilling requests. I look forward to Oct. 1st 2006/Susan


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History Reappears in Argentina
Published: March 27, 2004
Thousands of Argentines were kidnapped, tortured and killed by military death squads during the 1970's and early 1980's -- most of them innocent casualties of a dirty war against leftist dissenters and guerrillas. The governments of that era offered no information about the fates of these victims. Relatives and friends were merely told that their loved ones had disappeared. When democratic rule returned in 1983, there was an initial attempt to render a public accounting. Then, intimidated by a succession of military protests and revolts, Argentine governments backed off, hoping the issue itself would fade away, to become the ultimate ''desaparecido.''
It couldn't, of course, and now President Néstor Kirchner is courageously trying to make amends to the victims and survivors. This week, Mr. Kirchner marked the 28th anniversary of the military coup that ushered in these horrors by asking for forgiveness for nearly two decades of governmental failure to confront these issues forthrightly.
To make sure that the state terrorism of those years is never again airbrushed from history, he dedicated a future ''museum of memory'' on the site of the Navy Mechanics School in Buenos Aires, the most infamous of clandestine torture chambers once run by the military. Human rights groups estimate that some 5,000 people were secretly detained at the Navy Mechanics School over the course of seven years of military rule, and that only about 100 of them survived. Babies born there were given out for adoption to military families, and their mothers were killed. In a separate ceremony, the current army commander removed the portraits of two military junta leaders from a hall of honor at the National Military College.
Passions still run high in Argentina over these issues. Four generals resigned over the removal of the portraits. Despite the objections, Mr. Kirchner, who comes from the generation most deeply scarred by the dirty war, is clearly on the right course. By having the courage to face up to the government crimes of that era, he helps inoculate Argentina against the possibility of their ever being repeated.


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May 1, 2012 — Earlier this year, The Asia Foundation announced the election of five members to our Board of Trustees: Karl Eikenberry, Geoffrey Garrett, Sunder Ramaswamy, Masako Shinn, and Alice Young. "I am delighted to welcome this exceptional group of global leaders to our Board of Trustees," said Michael H. Armacost, Chairman of the Board. "Each new member brings deep-rooted expertise and unique accomplishments in their respective fields."
Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and retired Army General Karl Eikenberry brings extensive expertise, particularly on Afghanistan, having served two tours there, including leading the civilian surge directed by President Obama to set the conditions for transition to full Afghan sovereignty. The ambassador also served as the Director of Strategic Planning and Policy at U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii, as Defense Attaché to the People's Republic of China, and several operational assignments in Korea. He is fluent in Mandarin and has an advanced degree in Chinese history from Nanjing University. Geoffrey Garrett, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Australia, is founding CEO of the United States Studies Centre and Dean of the University of Sydney Business School and was a Fulbright Scholar at Duke University, where he earned his Master's and Phd. Sunder Ramaswamy is the President and Frederick C. Dirks Professor of International Economics at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Over the past 20 years, he has held visiting positions at distinguished universities in India and the United States. His principal fields of specialization are Development Economics, International Economics, Issues in Applied Microeconomics, and Quantitative Methods. Masako Shinn is the founder of Graphis Asia, a publisher of books and magazines on Asian design, and is one of The Asia Foundation's Lotus Circle Advisors. Shinn is also a trustee of the Japan Society, on the Board of the Sackler Gallery, and has served on the Kennedy Center's President's Advisory Council on the Arts. Alice Young is a returning Asia Foundation trustee, serving from 2003-2011. She is Partner and Chair of the Asia Pacific Practice Group of Kaye Scholer LLP International Law Firm. Young was named by Crain's in their list of the "Top 100 Minority Executives" and by Avenue Asia magazine as one of the most influential Asian-American corporate lawyers in the United States.


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