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Our favorite investor, Jim Rogers, was recently interviewed by BusinessWeek magazine – he’s been in the media quite a bit recently, plugging his new book A Gift to My Children: A Father’s Lessons for Life and Investing, which is scheduled to be released this Tuesday, April 28. Here are a few of my favorite excerpts below […]
Sugar Futures Surge to a 6-Month High Sugar futures rallied nearly 4% on Friday, over half a cent, to close the week at 14.18. Looks like we’ve got a new breakout to the upside! Sugar futures continue their steady climb. (Source: Barchart.com) The market continued to focus on the news that India may turn into […]
The folks at Reason TV recently put together an excellent 8-minute video about agricultural subsidies in America, from their roots in the Great Depression, to their effects today on commodity prices and economies around the world. As a commodities trader and/or investor, it’s extremely important for you to be familiar with these subsidies. I should […]
Famous investor Donald Coxe took a real bath in 2008 (along with the rest of us commodity bulls) – he was heavily overweighted in commodities, and, though bearish on the overall economy, he still believed commodities were the place to be. Hmmmmm, sounds a little familiar. Despite the huge setbacks last year, Coxe still believes […]
Cotton put in a strong effort today – up 1.21, on a day when many of the softs were down – so I perused the short and long term charts for May futures. Looks like cotton definitely has put in a double bottom, which is usually seen as a bullish indicator, and is rallying off […]
Corn and soybean futures each jumped roughly 5% today after the USDA released its Planting Intentions Report. Some quick highlights from the report reveal that there appears to be plenty of corn and beans coming our way, but cotton will continue to be neglected, as we had anticipated. Corn acreage is down 1% from last […]
The Economist reports that researchers at the University of Nevada at Reno have found that coffee grounds can be turned into biodiesel that is comparable in quality to top biodiesel on the market today. Because the biodiesel is made from grounds, no extra land has to be diverted in order to generate the inputs for […]
On Monday, the USDA released it’s agriculture supply and demand projections, which sent grains “limit down” for the day across the board, and many of the softs down sharply as well. That proved to be the worst of it – as grains slowly recovered during the week as the market digested the news, finishing the […]
Corn farmers could be in some trouble this year reports the Batavia News, an upstate New York newspaper. The (corn) price has been hovering near $4. That could be trouble for farmers if there is an average or below average crop.Many of his customers have ordered more soybean seed. That crop requires less fertilizer. New […]
Just caught this informative piece on Seeking Alpha which makes a bullish case for cocoa futures, due to very tight supply. What’s driving cocoa prices higher? Supply, supply, supply. Back in February of 2008, tight supplies were forecast in the cocoa market, along with higher prices. Analysts called for a 14% rise in cocoa prices […]
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