All Posts Tagged With: "commodities"

Don’t Let the Market’s Juke Move Fake You Out of the Looming Profits in Gold

In football, when a running back intends to cut to the left, he often first fakes right. This move is designed to make the defense commit its resources in the wrong direction. It is my experience that markets often follow…

26Aug2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Supply and Demand Shape Commodity Markets

The commodity bull market has a long way to go. This bull market is not magic. It’s not some crazy “cycle theory” I have. It does not fall out of the sky. It’s supply and demand. It’s simple stuff.

In the…

25Aug2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | 0 comments | Continued

The Word on the Street

A lot to talk about today…

The “word” on the street is “subprime.” According to the American Dialect Society, it’s the most important new word this year. Along with “jingle mail,” “exploding ARMs” and “liars’ loans,” it came into the popular…

19Aug2008 | Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | Continued

Cartoon Capitalism

There is important news. And there is entertaining news.

Today’s most important story comes to us from the Financial Times:

“Biggest dive for commodities in 28 years,” says the headline. It is important because it is likely to give people the wrong…

4Aug2008 | Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | Continued

Commodities Corner: No Rest For The Wicked…Or Gas, Corn and Silver

Welcome to another installment of our bi-weekly round-up of what’s been happening in the world of commodities. Once again, there’s been no shortage of wild action, so let’s get right to it.

Oil Resting For The Moment

The energy markets took a…

22Jul2008 | Smart Profits Report | 0 comments | Continued

Commodity Trading

It’s a Wild World

Well another week of wild trading has left many on Wall Street bruised, battered and not sure what to think. Is the oil bubble bursting? Are commodities and resources heading lower? No one can say for sure, but this…

22Jul2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | 0 comments | Continued

Commodities Markets

What Goes Up…

2008 has been an incredible year for commodities. While this drastic shift in focus to our finite global resources may seem immediate to the vast majority of Earth’s inhabitants, it’s actually been coming for a very long time.

Many…

17Jul2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | 0 comments | Continued

Two Profit Plays to Make as the Fed Inflates the Commodities Bubble

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ignored the warnings of most economists last week, and kept the benchmark Federal Funds rate at 2%, far below the actual rate of inflation.

As a result of this non-move, investors can probably…

2Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Spooked by a Combination of ‘Flations’

What not to do with your money now…

It has been the worst June in 77 years, says Bloomberg. In June of 1930, the Dow lost 18%. So far, it is down 9.4% this month. Since this is the last day…

1Jul2008 | Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | Continued

Investing in Commodities

Most of us Americans are so accustomed to a world of plenty; we have a hard time imagining a world of scarcity — much less making investments based upon this idea. But the energy markets provide a very powerful example…

23Jun2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | Continued

Oil “Bulls” its Way Above $139 on its Way to a New Record as the U.S. Dollar Resumes its Descent

Crude oil for July delivery traded at an all-time high of $139.12 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange today (Friday), after the U.S. dollar nosedived on speculation that the European Central Bank would raise its key lending rate…

7Jun2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Cashing in on Commodities: Life’s Little Luxuries are Costing More than Ever Before

Soaring prices of grains, dairy and meat have been grabbing global headlines. But other commodities have been on the rise as well. I’m not talking about the increases in daily staples that make the front page, but those little extras…

3Jun2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Cashing in on Commodities: Two Ways to Profit From the World’s Newest Markets

Many people are in sticker shock thanks to high gas prices and oil that punched through the $135-a-barrel level recently, before sliding back.

And many investors are feeling left out because they haven’t been part of the incredible bull run energy…

30May2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Cashing in on Commodities: Lumber & Paper Mills Struggle as Timber Stands Tall

There’s a classic squeeze going on in the timber markets right now.

As you might expect, the U.S housing slump is reducing demand for finished lumber. Meanwhile, timber, pulpwood, and paper prices are rising worldwide - but curiously, profit margins…

26May2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Cashing in on Commodities: What’s Driving the Oil Bull, How Much Further It Will Go, and How Investors Can Profit

Exactly 12 months ago, West Texas Intermediate crude oil was trading at just under $63 a barrel.

Yesterday (Thursday) futures prices for that benchmark grade of crude oil hit the latest in a succession of record highs, punching through the $135-a-barrel…

23May2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Cashing in on Commodities: The Short- and Long-Term Solutions to the Growing Global Energy Crisis

Crude oil is grabbing the headlines but it’s coal and uranium that together provide nearly half the world’s power.

So it follows that as worldwide demand for electricity skyrockets - as it will - the shares of companies that provide these…

20May2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

VIDEO: Top Energy Play

2May2008 | J. Christoph Amberger | 0 comments | Continued

January Market Crash — This was just a prelude to the Global Crisis of 2009

Market Crash A couple of days ago, Asian and European stock markets experienced their biggest multi-day declines since April 1990. Tokyo, Bombay, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, London… all lost five, seven, even 8% and billions of dollars in valuation within a few hours…

30Jan2008 | J. Christoph Amberger | 0 comments | Continued