Weekly commodity wrap-up
Gold bugs big day The front month gold future contract reached $2,300 per ounce this week. A new all-time high and a gain of 11%…
Finance
Stock Market Insights: A smooth flight for stocks in Q1
“This is your captain speaking.” I had to fly to the East coast last week for some meetings, and about a half-hour into our two-hour…
Stock Market Insights: Lessons from the pandemic Market Crash
My family and I drove to Florida a few days ago to visit a client and enjoy the warm weather. We had planned our trip,…
Stock Market Insights: Scaling back large-cap growth for small-cap opportunities
We had been catching some white bass, but the bite went cold. I asked my Poppy what we should do, and he said, “We clean…
Weekly commodity wrap-up
Cocoa can’t stop, won’t stop May cocoa futures traded as high as $8,900 per metric ton this week, which is more than double the value…
Weekly commodity wrap-up
Interest rate cut parties postponed The March Consumer Price Index report covering the month of February was released this week. Core CPI was up 0.4%…
Stock Market Insights: The lopsided S&P 500: Magnificent 7 vs. the rest
I asked my high school baseball coach what we needed to do to win, and he said, “We need more Eddies!” Our baseball team consisted…
Weekly commodity wrap-up
Commodity boom It has been a strong two weeks — two months for most commodity futures that are actively traded. Gold led the precious metal band…
Stock Market Insights: International investments: The challenge of finding true diversification
“New York City!?” Remember the old salsa commercial where the cowboy looks at the back of his salsa and sees it was made in New…
Weekly commodity wrap-up
No fear for record fund grain shorts The Commitment of Traders report from Feb. 23 revealed that managed money was short 340,732 contracts of corn….