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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 […]
Open Positions Date Position Qty Month/Yr Contract Strike Call/Put Entry Price Last Price Profit/Loss 03/31/08 Long 1 MAY 08 Corn 576 3/4 593 $812.50 04/02/08 Long 1 MAY 08 Corn 598 1/2 593 ($275.00) 03/13/08 Long 1 JUN 08 Japanese Yen 0.9992 0.9879 ($1,412.50) 03/12/08 Long 1 MAY 08 Rough Rice 18.980 20.680 $3,400.00 03/13/08 […]
Hat tip to Daily Wealth for this chart on Potash (scan to the end of the article). Potash should just keep on humming along for the forseeable future – we’ve posted about them before here, and I don’t see an end to this trend.
Chuck Butler on the Swiss Franc and potential end of the carry trade, from his must-read currency newsletter, the Daily Pfennig: Swiss inflation is really putting the pressure on the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to raise interest rates… Inflation in Switzerland accelerated faster than expected in March. In fact, it was the fastest monthly pace […]
From Agora’s 5 Minute Forecast: “This cold, wet start to April,” explains Kevin Kerr, “means farmers may not get corn into the ground before May 1. That is devastating. If cold, wet weather persists in the Corn Belt and farmers don’t plant until after May 1 and then, as in ’83, we see dry weather […]
Frank (Holmes) expects copper – which has gained 400% in the past five years and now sells for $3.75 per pound – to hit $8 to $10 in the coming years. Frank is the CEO and chief investment officer of publicly traded U.S. Global Investors, one of the top commodity fund managers in the world. […]
Great job by Dan Denning and the Rude Awakening crew on today’s article. They make the case that a steep decline in agriculture is unlikely. Only a decrease in demand would trigger that, and that does not appear likely at this point in time.
Shout out to my boy Marcos for forwarding this one along. A BB&T Capital Markets analyst said Monday corn rationing may be necessary this year, following a U.S. Department of Agriculture report predicting farmers would plant far fewer acres of corn in 2008. Full article
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