CBOT Limits Ag Receipts Held by Non-Grain Companies to Improve Performance of Hedging

In response to pressure over the last year, the CBOT has responded to requests from its regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, ... are the parameters below:Commodity - LimitCorn shipping certificates - 600*Soybean shipping [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 02:59:00

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Ship Industry Hits Skids

An investment adviser points out that the world-wide shipping industry is taking an economic pounding here: ... ocean-going cargo vessel available for shipping dry bulk commodities. Six months later that same tanker ... : Ocean shipping costs have plunged to 22-year lows, skewing global grain-trading patterns to the point [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 13:22:56

Predicting the grain market is like checking the chicken entrails

If you drive down state Route 46 north of the Eastwood Mall, there used to be a sign for a “reader and advisor.” You see one of those once in awhile ... . Now that we are back in the fours on futures, we can look for that next 50 cents, or we can expect ... now is that we have lost demand. All commodities, farm and nonfarm, are trading lower. Gas is [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 07:58:13

Commodities jump alongside oil prices

By MADLEN READ NEW YORK (AP) — Metals and grains rose alongside energy prices in light trading Friday, after a nine-day plunge in oil encouraged investors to buy back into the struggling commodities market. But so far, there is little evidence that crude oil or other battered commodities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 14:09:19

The New Commodity Bull

Just when the central banks of the world are deluding themselves with the idea that inflation is under control, commodity prices are surging much higher once again.Soybeans (other grains have similar charts) - up 30% over the past monthCrude Oil - up 40% in 7 trading sessions. Crude has touched $50/barrel [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 11:14:00

Cotton Futures Continue Their March Towards Zero

Can you spot the trend?Trading below 40 cents, cotton must be one of the most underpriced commodities in the history of western civilization.Supply was already under pressure, as farmers neglected planting cotton in recent years in favor of higher priced grains, such as corn and soybeans.Lock and load, because we're going to see cotton [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 00:42:00

Weekly Futures Positions Review - November 30, 2008

Top posts from the past week: Are Any Grains Worth Buying At These Prices? ... are the most attractive investment opportunity I see today. They are actually trading below the prices they were at when the entire bull market in commodities began. Other existing positions I've got [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 21:31:00

International Trade Seizing Up Due to Banking Crisis (Updated)

I have been more than a tad concerned about near-paralysis in the money markets and imploding equity prices ... shortages of commodities begins to show up. THE CENTRAL BANKS CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN OR WE HAVE NO ECONOMY ... comes from the Financial Post, "Grain piles up in ports" (hat tip reader Vox Sanus): The credit [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 02:56:53

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