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Peter Byrne: Steve Hansen of Raymond James sees the potash market as a barbell, with a handful of large incumbent producers on one end and dozens of junior miners clustered at the other. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Read more…
Jared Cummans: While most traders have kept their eyes glued to high profile commodities like gold and crude oil,wheat futures have been on an absolute tear. Three different kinds of wheat futures are up more than 10% in the trailing week, with standard wheat futures Read more…
Stocks are set for a down open Wednesday after bleeding lower yesterday afternoon. The strong ISM number gave the market a big boost in the morning, but stocks could not hold those gains and are back at yesterday’s low pre Read more…
Joseph L. Shaefer: In a recent article, “A Skål to Old King Coal,” I discussed the shortsightedness of many investors in abandoning fossil fuels in favor of technologies that may one day provide renewable (and cleaner) energy but, today, account for less than 10% of all energy generated for heating, cooling, Read more…
EconMatters: The ink on our last article is barely dry when its dire prediction actually came true 48 hours later–natural gas price dropping below $2, a level not seen in over a decade. Henry Hub natural Read more…
Richard Rittorno: Are corn prices going up? Is corn over and done? To answer those questions, traders need to put on both their bull hats and their bear hats. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: The world is always ending, according to someone out there. The current environment is full of those who think the end is nigh–at least for the robust global economy to which we’ve grown accustomed. Let’s suppose that our economy is about to fall off a cliff, resulting in general chaos, Read more…
Jared Cummans: Commodity investing has become increasing popular in recent years as the exchange traded world has opened this once elusive asset class wide open. Still, one of the most effective ways to maintain exposure to your favorite hard asset remains through futures contracts. For the average Read more…
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…
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…
Frank Holmes: What a decade!… A rapidly urbanizing global population driven by tremendous growth in emerging markets (NYSEARCA:EEM) has sent commodities on quite a run over the past 10 years. In fact, you would find that all 14 commodities are in positive territory if you annualized the returns Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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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