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For a few weeks now, we’ve been watching the commodity markets with rapt attention, asking ourselves: “Has the next commodity bull market officially begun?” From the charts, it looks like broader commodity indeces may have finally formed a bottom. Source: BarChart.com So if the wind is indeed once again at the back of us commodity […]
Have Orange Juice futures finally found a bottom? May Orange Juice futures gained nearly 10% this week, on speculation that drought conditions in Florida could damper yields. As you can see, OJ has been in free fall over the past 14 months, dropping roughly in half from peak to trough. Prices appear to have been […]
Bernanke Fires Up the Printing Presses Earlier this week, Ben Bernanke announced the US Federal Reserve will buy up to $300 billion of US long-term Treasury securities over the next 3 months. Where will the Fed get that money? It will essentially create it out of thin air – also known as “printing money.” Surprisingly, […]
Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) — Sugar prices rose, posting their fourth straight weekly gain, on speculation that demand for imported supplies will increase this year in China and India, the world’s largest consumer.… Also worth noting: Reduced supplies from India likely will widen a global market deficit that Czarnikow Group Ltd. estimates will be 5.8 million […]
Top posts from the past week: Inflation or Deflation – Which Will Prevail? Fed Out of Ammo; Dollar is Toast Stratfor: Oil Prices Likely to Remain Low Our coverage of Marc Faber’s recent interview on CNBC from December 1st continues to see a lot of traffic. A review of our trades from the previous week: […]
Stratfor reports that the current drop in food prices is likely to be temporary, because falling prices and the credit crunch will reduce supply next growing cycle. The article confirms something we’ve been discussing here at length – the trends which originally brought about the supply/demand imbalance in the grains markets are still firmly in […]
Are there any grains worth buying at these prices? Have you seen any article, commentary that may be of help? This question was posed by our buddy and regular reader/contributor Moyo, who runs the fine commodity focused site FuturesCafe. I think that sugar, cotton, and coffee are the most attractive agriculture plays at this point. […]
Here’s another news bit that appears to be medium-long term bullish for sugar futures. I recall reading that sugar based ethanol is cost competitive with oil at $50 or above, so even with the recent correction in oil, the sugarcane based ethanol industry of Brazil continues to boom. peHUB: Paladin Puts Sugar in the Gas […]
Sugar! Is that you, Baby Girl? It’s your old, pal, SugarHigh – remember me? Yeah. It’s been awhile. We had some good times back in ’05-’06. You said you needed some time to get your life back together. I know we got a little ahead of themselves back in ’05…all the way up to $0.20 […]
Remember when the grains and softs were doing moonshots, and every other column here was about bullish news for food prices? Seems like just yesterday I was imploring a much smaller readership base to sugar me sweet. While my favorite soft commodities (sugar, coffee, cotton) remain parked on my wish list as we wait for […]
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