Stock Market Insights: The lopsided S&P 500: Magnificent 7 vs. the rest
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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….
Stock Market Insights: Skyrocketing food prices: Impact on consumers and investors
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the cool thing to do in our town was to go to the local store and buy a…
Weekly commodity wrap-up
Equities pause and reflect positive Nvidia earnings report The S&P, Dow Jones and Nasdaq indices have moved sharply higher since last November with all three…
Weekly commodity wrap-up
The softs will rise again A majority of the soft commodities, the label applied to the basket of commodities including cocoa, sugar, coffee, orange juice…
Stock Market Insights: Market plunge: CPI report rocks investors
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Stock Market Insights: January’s momentum: A strong start for the stock market
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Weekly commodity wrap-up
Chocolate kisses new all-time highs Cocoa futures prices made new all-time highs on Friday with the March cocoa futures soaring to $6,030 per metric ton…