Simon Watkins: Grain exports in Ukraine have been restriction free for little more than a month, and are about to be limited once more after drought and frosts hit the winter crop. March wheat prices Read more…
NYSE:DBA, WEAT
Chris Ciovacco: Even the early stages of new bull markets experience corrections. After surging off the March 2009 lows, the weekly chart of the S&P 500 (NYSEArca:SPY) experienced what is known as a “perfected sell setup” in DeMark speak. Following the sell setup signal in early June 2009, the S&P 500 Read more…
NYSE:DBA, NYSE:EWA, NYSE:EWG, NYSE:GLD, SLV, SPY
Much has been made about the perfect market timing that can be derived by the doing the opposite of what the herd, or small investor, is doing. While this Read more…
MOO, NYSE:BKF, NYSE:DBA, NYSE:DBC, NYSE:GDX, NYSE:GLD, SPY, TBT, TLT
Martin Hutchinson: Forget about lost decades. Forecasts that we’ll be turning Japanese couldn’t be further from the truth. Here’s why. It’s simple, really. Deflation is not in the interest of anybody in power, so it’s very unlikely to happen. Read more…
NYSE:DBA, NYSE:EWG, NYSE:EWJ, UUP, XLE
Shah Gilani: You want to know the truth? The truth is that Wall Street has stacked the deck against you. That’s why you need to understand how the game is played. Otherwise you’ll end up a Wall Street patsy. Read more…
NYSE:DBA, NYSE:DVY, NYSE:EEM, QQQ, UUP, XLB
Jared Cummans: The agriculture sector has long been a popular place for commodity trading. After all, it was with agricultural futures that commodity trading got its start. Farmers had originally used these contracts to help offset any losses in crop yields. Now, the agricultural space has blossomed into a Read more…
JJG, MOO, NYSE:CORN, NYSE:DBA
Rick Mills: As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Our agriculture system is concentrated on producing a very few staple crops – there is a very serious lack of crop diversity. Corn, wheat, rice and soy are the main staples and production is Read more…
MOO, NYSE:CORN, NYSE:CROP, NYSE:DBA, NYSE:DBC
Alan Price: Each New Year brings with it a number of questions for investors: Am I investing in the right place? Should I be taking more or less of a risk? Should I have a more diverse portfolio? Read more…
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Kevin McElory: In 2011, for the first time ever, more corn (NYSEArca:CORN) was made into ethanol than consumed as food (for humans) or feed (for animals) in the United States. Read more…
MOO, NYSE:CORN, NYSE:CROP, NYSE:DBA, UGA
Jonathan Yates: And they said it couldn’t be done: a $20 billion a year tax credit for ethanol has ended in the United States. Sometimes the American political system does work, even when losing the subsidy directly hurts Iowa farmers in an election year. Read more…
NYSE:CORN, NYSE:DBA
Jonathan Yates: Afirca’s emerging middle class presents a massive new marketplace for biotech companies such as Monsanto (NYSE:MON) and Syngenta (NYSE:SYT). The profit potential for these stocks has been detailed on previous articles on www.emergingmoney.com Read more…
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Sara Nunnally: Farm life for me isn’t the same as farm life for actual farmers. I’m working on a small garden… But for me, it’s about having all my animals together — dogs, horses, cats — on a peaceful plot of land here in the Midwest. Read more…
JJG, MOO, NYSE:CORN, NYSE:DBA, NYSE:DBC
Sean Brodrick: As 2011 winds to a close, it’s time to set our sights on where to invest in 2012. I have plenty of ideas for my Red-Hot Global Resources subscribers. After all, we track a closed gain of $11,343 before commissions for Red-Hot Global Resources’ recommended positions in 2011 — that means Read more…
NYSE:CORN, NYSE:DBA, NYSE:GLD, RJA, SLV, UGA
Richard Heinberg: The current global food system is highly fuel- and transport-dependent. Fuels will almost certainly become less affordable in the near and medium term, making the current, highly fuel-dependent agricultural production system less secure and food less affordable. It is therefore Read more…
MOO, NYSE:DBA, NYSE:DBC, USO, XLE
Wyatt Research Staff: Farmers who spent the year growing corn or milking cows may not have noticed that the U.S. government nearly shut down or that Europe is in a full-fledged debt crisis. That’s because they were too busy turning record profits. Read more…
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