Noble Group "Collateral Margin Call"

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Mark Melin
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Noble Group, Asia’s top commodity trader, has endured short selling attacks from the likes of Muddy Waters LLC and the anonymous Iceburg Research. With its stock value cut by over ¾ on a year over year basis, and bouncing near all-time lows, along comes a new report from researcher Simon Jacques calling recent actions a “collateral margin call.” Moody’s Noble Group Rating Although it has made its loan payments, Noble Group’s commodity-based assets used as collateral have been significantly dropping in value, the report said. It is against this background the stock trading near 0.40 cents after starting 2015 at $1.16….

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.