I failed to find any notable breakout or breakdown today but let's talk big picture where did the S&P go in the last decade? The answer is nowhere. This index is supposed to be a good barometer of the ...

These are buoyant times for (some) commodity investors, and (some) commodity producers, but what does it mean in terms of a global recovery? A common feature among people drawing conclusions about the ...

Crude oil futures are higher by 3% as of this post, and have gained nearly $5/barrel in the last week of trading. I've been advising scaling into longs for several weeks now, and it appears the trade ...

Investors sifting through commodity charts to figure out whether the worst is over for commodities probably have missed a chart that paints a bleak long-term picture for commodities -- a secular ...

The surge in commodity prices of recent years has boosted the earnings of commodity exporters, many of them located in emerging markets. But the flip side of commodity wealth is that it puts upward ...

The fear of inflation appears to have arrived at precisely the wrong time. Sometimes we get so caught up in the day-to-day or moment-to-moment fluctuations of the market that we forget to step back ...

December coffee (KCZ25) futures present a buying opportunity on more price strength. See on the daily bar chart for the ...

Casey Murphy has fanned his passion for finance through years of writing about active trading, technical analysis, market commentary, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), commodities, futures, options, and ...

Inflation means different things to different people—breadlines, bushel-basket currency, ballooning credit or simply whacking good times. Whatever the discord in definition, there is perfect harmony ...

Deutsche Bank AG recently noted that commodities will continue to “struggle” as the dollar strengthens and China seeks to restrain growth. Looking at the recent performance between the CRB index, S&P ...

In yesterday’s post, I explained that large agribusiness corporations largely avoid the task of actually growing food, leaving it mainly to family-owned farm enterprises. Why would they do that? In ...