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This has been a turbulent week on the geopolitical front, triggering waves in the stock market and sending the price of crude oil through the roof. While the stock market corrects itself (as we Read more…
Cotton prices have surged beyond $2 a pound, the highest level they’ve ever hit. The fiber didn’t even go that high during the Civil War’s cotton embargo. It is now up 170% since a year ago and more than 40% since the beginning of 2011. Short-term squeezes have definitely contributed, as mills Read more…
Corn prices continued their rally early this week, as the grain traded at its highest level since July 2008 on Tuesday. The new high did not hold long, though. Corn and all grains turned south after Read more…
This week, gold knocked the world’s reserve currencies down a peg – with the sole exception of the Swiss franc. While the Swissie moved up 0.6 percent against bullion, sterling slid 2.0 percent and Read more…
Larry D. Spears: If you start a conversation about the building inflationary pressures already sapping consumer pocketbooks, that talk will almost certainly turn to such classic hedges as gold, Read more…
Kerri Shannon: Civil unrest in the Middle East continues to push oil prices higher as companies with Libyan operations shut down production, threatening oil exports to Europe. Read more…
Thanks to oil’s recent surge, a number of tangentially connected industries have benefited from the sharp move higher in crude prices. One such industry is the solar power sector where higher oil Read more…
Stocks ended the day mixed on Thursday on light volume. The tech heavy Nasdaq and the small-cap Russell 2000 ended the day higher by 0.6% and 0.4% respectively. The S&P 500 and the S&P Read more…
Global X, the New York-based firm that has already launched a handful of new ETFs this year, continues to fill its product pipeline with innovative ideas. In an SEC filing last week, the issuer Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: Put 100 investors in a room and most will tell you how worried they are that the still-bullish U.S. stock market is going to betray them for a third time in slightly more than a Read more…
Statistic of the day: Every $10 higher that oil trades drains a minimum of 25 basis points from global GDP growth rates. Some say the real impact is more like 50 basis points. Read more…
Teucrium Trading today (2/23/11) launched the Teucrium WTI Crude Oil Fund (NYSE:CRUD), providing investors with unleveraged exposure to crude oil futures contracts. The fund’s objective Read more…
In trading on Friday, the iPath Inverse January 2021 S&P (NYSE:IVO) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 6.76% on the day. Also up on the day are the 
As political uncertainty in Africa and the Middle East continues to prevail, commodities, in particularly crude oil, gold and silver have surged. As for the future, it appears to remain bright for 
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