Archive for June 16th, 2008
Ethanol nears death’s door
16 June 2008It wasn’t that long ago that Ballard Power (BLD:TSX) was going to go to the moon, along with Stuart Energy, Fuel Cell Technologies, etc. A few good and bad ideas have come and gone since those days of 2000/01, but the latest bad idea certainly has to be putting another dollar into corn-based ethanol [...]
BCTIA 2008 Technology Impact Award Winners
16 June 2008On Friday, the British Columbia Technology Industry Association announced their 2008 Technology Impact Award Winners. In the “Team of the Year” category, Wellington Financial Fund III portfolio co. Vision Critical got the nod. This from the BCTIA’s press release:
“Team of the Year
Vision Critical’s (Vancouver) Community and Qualitative Team built from scratch a number [...]
Water torture at the hands of the U.S. Attorney
16 June 2008Tucked away in an unremarkable Friday afternoon Bloomberg story about MF Global was more than a few nuggets about the snail-paced water torture that the U.S. Attorney is putting Bank of Montreal (BMO:TSX, NYSE) through:
June 13 (Bloomberg) — MF Global Ltd., the futures broker that lost $141 million earlier this year on unauthorized wheat trades, [...]