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David Gillie: No matter what, people have to eat – 7 billion of them now globally. You can’t eat your iPhone. You can’t eat your gold coins. And you can’t eat oil. Read more…
Kevin Grewal: Supply shocks over the past two years in wheat and corn continue to take their toll on food prices, which will likely provide positive price support to the iPath Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture Subindex Total Return ETN (NYSE:JJA), iPath Dow Jones-UBS Grains Subindex Total Return ETN Read more…
Kevin Grewal: Poor weather conditions around the world may result in a supply shock, pushing rice, grain and other agricultural-based commodities higher and giving positive price support to the ELEMENTS Rogers Intl Commodity Agri ETN (NYSE:RJA), the PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund Read more…
Kevin Kerr: In the world of commodities and resources, the demand for certain key items has increased exponentially as the global appetite for cars, homes, and better food has exploded. China and India, and the rest of the emerging markets, have been the biggest drivers of this new demand, as millions Read more…
Kevin Kerr: Over the last decade commodity prices have been surging at a breathtaking rate, except perhaps for the end of 2008 and into early 2009, when we saw a significant correction. Even so, the vast majority of investors, around 90 percent, have little or no exposure to commodities and resources at all. Read more…
David Fry: Our goal in this profile is to help investors wade through the many competing ETF offerings available. Using our long experience as an ETF publication, and nearly 40 years in the investment business, we can help select those ETFs that matter and may or may not be repetitive. Read more…
Kevin Kerr: For several years now I, and other traders I respect, have been warning of a day of reckoning that would eventually come to pass for the global economy. Read more…
Kevin Grewal: Continuing imbalances in supply and demand have pushed coffee prices to 30-year highs and are expected to continue to provide positive price support to the soft commodity. Read more…
Stocks ended the session modestly higher on Friday on mixed trade. The small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSE:IWM) led the rally as it gained 0.6% on the day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Read more…
The global price of food continues to increase illustrated by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s monthly food price index rising to 214.7, the sixth consecutive month Read more…
On Wednesday, the CME group raised margin requirements on trading soybeans futures contracts, shortly after the Chicago exchange increased margin requirements to curb silver and cotton Read more…
Agriculture prices have surged this year as demand for grains, dairy, meats and cooking oils have elevated in emerging markets and supply has remained constrained enabling the Market Vectors Read more…
Heavy rainfall have many concerned about coffee supplies, pushing the agriculturally-based commodity to its highest levels in more than 13 years giving positive price support to the iPath DJ Read more…
I have talked about inflation, especially rising food prices, several times this year, and while I don’t want to sound like a broken record, the evidence continues to mount AND the opportunity to make 
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