This was forwarded to me by blog reader Sean…
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer, and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth […]

While Triple Point has recently released a raft of announcements noting multiple sales of products derived from their acquisition of INSSINC earlier this year; according to the rumor mill, they are not talking about what would be the largest license deal in the history of the ETRM/CTRM market.
According to multiple sources, the company has closed […]

Russia, Iran and Qatar are moving to create an OPEC-like consortium for natural gas. While the Qatar and Russian representatives say the “gas triorka” is not intended to set global prices for natural gas, the Iranian representative to the group, Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari, has said, “There is a demand to form this gas […]

UtiliPoint International is conducting research to examine the impacts of the recent and ongoing market shifts on companies participating in evolving commodity markets, particularly as they apply to the physical players in the market. Additionally, we’re looking at the impacts to the ETRM/CTRM software used to manage transactions in this volatile environment.
Based upon […]

Unfortunately, he wasn’t much help…
Good news though - my vacuum broke last night, so at least now not everything sucks.

Allegro just announced a new enhancement to their product offering, one that moves them ahead of the competition in terms of fully integrating the major electronic exchanges (22 exchanges in total) directly into their system. As they say in their press release…
“This latest enhancement of the ExchangeConnect component provides two-way exchange connectivity (view and […]

Don’t forget to get signed up for UtiliPoint’s North American Conference being held in The Woodlands this year. The event will be next week, Oct. 16 & 17. We’ve got a great line-up of speakers, including:
- Barry T. Smitherman, Chairman, Public Utility Commission of Texas - Jeffrey E. Sterba, Chairman & CEO […]

UBS is the latest victim of the ongoing credit crisis. The company announced earlier today that they are shutting down their softs and energy commodity trading groups, sending several hundred traders and support folks to the unemployment line. This shut down is somewhat ironic in that UBS was the company that came in […]