Investing and Trading News, with a Contrarian, Sarcastic Twist!
Another good one from Agora – courtesy of their 5 Minute Forecast (if you couldn’t tell, I read this publication religiously): On the other side of the world, extreme drought and telling profit margins have Australian rice farmers switching to growing wine grapes. Australian rice? Yeah, that’s what we thought, too. But the reduction in […]
I just picked up a Cocoa contract. I had been eying cocoa for about a week, but wanted enough validation to pull the trigger. Of course now I wish I had pulled it sooner – but that’s the way it works. Check out the cocoa chart here – very strong rally following up from the […]
Courtesy of Agora’s 5 Min Forecast: Headlining the global food crisis, rice found itself another record high yesterday. Futures in Chicago ticked up another 2.3%, to $22.67, per 100 pounds when the Philippines — the world’s biggest rice importer — put in a buy order for 1 million metric tons. That’s more than 50% of […]
The U.S. corn crop was 2% planted as of Sunday, down from the five-year average pace of 7%, the U.S. Agriculture Department reported Monday afternoon in its weekly Crop Progress report.
Currency guru Chuck Butler at the Daily Pfennig has been waiving the flag for the Swissie and Yen for some time, long before their recent moves up. He loves them at today’s prices: Swiss francs are back to parity with the dollar, and even beyond! Japanese yen is flirting with a sub-100 figure too! I […]
I’m sorry for the lack of posts the past week – it was a really crazy week. I’m involved with a startup and we had a big pitch to give on Thursday, so the week just flew by. I caught up on the commodity news yesterday, and have a few things to post later this […]
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