Opinion

Just Exactly What Does Climate Denier Mean?

If there is one thing that really gets up my nose it is the smug and throw away comment ‘Climate Change Denier’ once again used by President Obama. It’s easy to insult and throw names around and I know that is what politicians engage in, but what exactly...
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Turning The Corner?

Jim Rogers was quoted yesterday saying.. “As far as commodities are concerned, it’s about supply and demand, and you’re having huge cutbacks in supply. We’re already having supply problems in some agricultural products and we’re going to have problems with oil products. “So I don’t think that the...
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With FIS’s acquisition of SunGard, what happens to SunGard Energy?

Last week’s announcement that Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) has agreed to purchase SunGard does raise some questions as to the implications for the SunGard Energy business (as indicated by the number of emails in my in-box about it and number of phone calls on the topic that...
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Can I Quote You On That?

At the moment, we are running a bit of a feedback survey on CTRMCenter (- yes, its that annoying pop up we are using). The results to date are actually very encouraging and we will probably publish them in a few weeks time when we have more respondents....
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Can I Quote You On That?

At the moment, we are running a bit of a feedback survey on CTRMCenter (- yes, its that annoying pop up we are using). The results to date are actually very encouraging and we will probably publish them in a few weeks time when we have more respondents....
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Wine, crude and CTRM

I stopped by a wine tasting event earlier this week hosted by Aspect. Unfortunately, I’m not much of a wine drinker, in fact I’m nothing of a wine drinker (no offense to those of you who are, but I just don’t get it…and neither does my stomach); however,...
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Hijacked – The Increasing Threat of Social Media

Some of you are probably wondering what am I posting this on CTRMCenter for? what has it got to do with CTRM software or commodities? Well, actually it has a direct relationship with commodities, but perhaps more importantly, to the way politics and pressure groups now operate in...
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Commodity Prices Dive But CTRM Software Sales Steady

Every day I select a bunch of news articles for posting on here on CTRMCenter and in recent days the theme of these has become increasingly obvious – Commodity prices are crashing hammered by a variety of factors ranging from over supply, weakened Asian demand, stronger US Dollar,...
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Remembering Jon Arnold…..

Today, I was looking up an old colleague in order to make a connection to him for a client only to discover with some considerable shock that Mr. Jon Arnold, latterly worldwide director of Utilities for Microsoft, had sadly passed away on May 14th, 2015. I first met...
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Remembering Jon Arnold…..

Today, I was looking up an old colleague in order to make a connection to him for a client only to discover with some considerable shock that Mr. Jon Arnold, latterly worldwide director of Utilities for Microsoft, had sadly passed away on May 14th, 2015. I first met...
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