Aim for the Bottom, Race to the Top?
Ouch- rough day to be in a long-only commodities fund yesterday, wasn’t it? While commodities across the board were mostly down (including Silver’s ugly 6.64% plunge), the Grains sector took the most consistent beating. It was one week ago today that we crowned Cocoa the winner in the race to new 2011 lows after the […]
Buckle Up
While the stock market crash since yesterday afternoon is what everyone is talking about, there is (as I’m constantly telling my mother), more than one ‘market’ out there, and looking at said markets, via Finviz and as of 10:20 AM, those markets (as in all of them) are going down are down an average of […]
Where are all the Coffee Traders?
With all of the focus lately on Crude Oil, metals like Gold and Silver, and grain markets; attention appears to have been deflected attention away from another market which has bounced back nicely: Coffee. Prices in New York have climbed to a 34-year high on a broad rally in commodities today on the back of […]
A New Twist on Gold
The announcement this past weekend by the University of Texas Investment Mgmt. Co. (manager of the 2nd largest endowment in the US, who knew?) that they took delivery of almost $1 Billion of physical Gold puts a new twist on the Gold story and raises some interesting issues/questions. Two items most people are talking about […]
Natural Gas Price Increases a Natural Result?
There’s been a good deal of attention on energy billionaire T. Boone Picken’s natural gas legislation, which was introduced in the house last week with 154 co-sponsors. The general buzz is indicating a fair amount of popular support for the bill, which would amend IRS code to promote investment in natural gas and in producing […]
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