Harvest blues
After the wash-out summer – where hardly a day seems to have passed without rain – harvest-watchers will be unsurprised to learn that wheat futures ... quality wheat. This is affecting some producers in the United States, but is also getting to be a major ... years, although even Devon farmers are complaining as their wheat starts to sprout in the fields [more...]
Date: 2008-08-21 15:33:42
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More Evidence: Speculators Don't Cause Volatility
Prices were outrageously volatile. While traders attributed the sharp market movements to supply and demand, ... it was before. Exhibit B: The same patterns exists for the second chart of wheat futures ... to convince lawmakers that the futures market for onions was not the cause of the volatility. “ [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 19:36:56
Credit crunch crunching markets
If recent conversations with elevator managers and farmers are even slightly predictive, it’s gonna be a long, ... downtrend lines from Sept. 23’s action on futures price charts for corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton ... the harvest season peak for Dec. corn futures at $5.72 per [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 05:58:00
Stock Market Dictionary - K
KFifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol specifying the issue has no voting rights ... and options exchange for no. 2 red wheat futures and, options, Value Line Index futures and Mini Value Line ... and Financial Futures ExchangeKLSESee: Kuala Lumpur Stock ExchangeKMFThe ISO 4217 currency code [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:42:00
Joke about GM
A friend came up with this joke: General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner is on a plane and meets a classmate who’s become a preacher ... him what to do. He prayed and found a verse that talked about bread, so his church invested in wheat futures and made [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 06:10:54
Not Even a Hill of Beans As Crisis Weighs on Commodities
Agro commodities slump Corn, wheat, pork, soybeans, ethanol and cattle futures all ended lower Thursday while rice prices edged up slightly, according to the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) Newsletter published with Dow Jones. Jitters over ... to commodity hedging. Ethanol contracts for December fell 3.3 cents to $2.125 per gallon, and CBOT [more...]
Date: 2008-09-18 13:12:00
Ah November …
Somehow, some way, 700 became the number the month of October revolved around. The stage was set Sept ... lows, new crop corn, soybean and wheat futures have, respectively, lost 53, 46 and 43 percent ... high of $16.10 for November futures and Oct. 24’s low of $8.63. Much of mid-October’s corn [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 05:00:36
12-15-08 AgriCharts Closing Comments…
Posted by brianallmerradionetwork on December 15, 2008 AgriCharts Market Commentary (www.agricharts.com) ... T corn futures higher. Private firms are estimating several million acres swing away from corn. US ... er in the front month. Wheat futures were boosted by higher CBOT corn and a weaker dollar. De [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 21:56:02
12-15-08 AgriCharts Midday Ag Market Commentary
Posted by brianallmerradionetwork on December 15, 2008 AgriCharts Market Commentary (www.agricharts.com) ... 4 at 8.58 Jan Meal +.80 at 258.50 Jan BO +.28 at 31.20. Wheat Wheat futures are follow CBOT corn a [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 17:58:31
01-05-09 KCBT Not Implementing Seasonal Storage Rates
Kansas City–January 5, 2009–The Kansas City Board of Trade has received numerous calls asking whether the exchange intends to implement seasonal ... per bushel per month. The Kansas City Board of Trade, founded in 1856, is the world’s largest futures market for hard red winter wheat. Daily quotes, market commentary, historical data and charting [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 21:36:07
4 Links I liked:
4 Links I liked: Posted November 7th, 2008 by itrade4real Financial bonds business commodities corn dollar ETF finance futures gold loss markets Money profit risk stock trading treasury Wheat Read the full article: http://www.itrade4real.com/2008/11/links-i-liked.html10vote Our catalyst today is the payroll data at 8:30 am. Not much [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 13:46:45
Potash Pricing Quietly Holding Up, But Commentary Has Vanished (POT)
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT) has seen a lot of its commentary drop along with its stock price ... Index. Grain futures have also fallen dramatically from their summer peaks, with corn, wheat, and soybeans all down 40% or more. But recent weeks have seen short month futures stabilize (especially [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 20:59:11
Commodities
Agriculture futures finished mixed Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for September delivery rose 28.5 cents to end at $7.9375; December corn dipped 1.25 cents to close at $5.17; December [more...]
Date: 2008-08-12 05:00:00
Interesting articles you might have missed during the week
The pace of change for the world has accelerated. Perhaps a glance at these stories can help keep your Orientation current! ... to the Caribbean. Futures contracts on the Chicago Board of Trade show {the price of} wheat ... harvests and worsen a food crisis for developing countries. Global production of wheat, the most [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 12:00:27
Commodities
Chicago markets Agriculture futures traded mixed Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for December delivery fell 28.75 cents to $8.2575; December corn added 2 cents to $5.96; December oats [more...]
Date: 2008-08-28 05:00:00
Commodity Boom Turns Bust in 2008 as Worldwide Economy Crumbles
By Pham-Duy Nguyen Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) — Commodity prices in 2008 plunged the most in five decades as demand for energy, ... , the slumping economy drove crude oil, gasoline, copper, corn, and wheat down from records in the first ... commodities to post gains. Gasoline futures declined to $1.0082 a gallon last year on the New York [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 18:57:26
Commodities
Agriculture futures traded mostly lower Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for September delivery rose 8 cents to $7.7475 a bushel; December corn fell 7 cents to $5.6225; December oats [more...]
Date: 2008-09-04 05:00:00
Commodities
Agriculture futures traded mostly higher Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for September delivery rose 29.5 cents to $8.7475; December corn gained 10.5 cents to $5.95; November soybeans [more...]
Date: 2008-08-21 05:00:00
Commodities
Agriculture futures traded lower Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for July delivery fell 23 cents to $8.81; July corn lost 18.5 cents to $7.2775; July oats dropped 14 cents to $4.13 [more...]
Date: 2008-06-20 05:00:00
Recession adds uncertainty to 2009 farmland leases
No business partnership seems unaffected by the recession, including one of agriculture’s most common, said Craig Dobbins, ... . “In September if you used the futures market to give you an idea of what prices might ... , soybeans and wheat had dropped that margin to about $200 an acre.” Prices are still falling, lowering [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 13:19:08
Commodities
Agriculture futures traded mostly higher Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for September delivery rose 4.5 cents to $7.8775; December corn rose 1.5 cents to $5.92; December oats rose 4.5 [more...]
Date: 2008-07-25 05:00:00
Commodities
Agriculture futures traded mostly lower Tuesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for July delivery rose 1.25 cents to $8.2325; July corn fell 23.75 cents to $6.9275; July oats declined 8 cents [more...]
Date: 2008-07-09 05:00:00
Commodities
Agriculture futures traded mostly higher Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for July delivery rose 5.75 cents to $9.04; July corn added 4 cents to $7.4625; July oats rose 3 cents to $4.27 [more...]
Date: 2008-06-19 05:00:00
Are Any Grains Worth Buying at These Prices?
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ... in 07-08 was really a speculative phenomena. Traders started piling into cotton futures contracts ... , as the market was not able to sustain a rally. But it's coming. Wheat also may be worth a look here [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 19:08:00
After the G-8: It’s Every ‘Man’ for Himself
... Brzail - Estadao - Original Article (Portuguese) Based on the evolution of the futures markets, oil ... interval. Some recent price quotes and forecasts have already influenced the trade in wheat [more...]
Date: 2008-07-13 18:32:53
Flawed system
11 November, 2008 General News/Issues Source TheStar Tuesday November 11, ... trading on the world stock exchanges. These commodities are traded in the futures markets where ... changes. Hedge funds and other speculative investment funds control about 60% of the wheat traded [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 05:15:24
U.S Market Update
- Equity markets have begun the week in positive territory, helped by declining commodity prices. Oil futures have shed about $4/bbl and gold has fallen this morning as the dollar has firmed ... % in Chicago led by Wheat while August natural gas is off close to 5% despite the formulation [more...]
Date: 2008-07-07 15:35:29
Flawed system
Stories by HILARY CHIEW Activists are calling for a re-examination of the capitalist system to overcome the social and economic ills of the world ... are traded in the futures markets where investors do not buy or sell a physical commodity like rice or crude ... about 60% of the wheat traded on the global commodity markets. So lucrative is this business [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 23:15:00
A Critical Day For Commodities - A Look At Wheat, Aluminum, & Copper
A Critical Day For Commodities - A Look At Wheat, Aluminum, & Copper Posted December 5th, 2008 by Epiphany Investing Basic Materials Alcoa aluminum charts copper Freeport front month futures market mosaic Potash Corp technical analysis Read the full article: http [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 21:15:04
UPDATE 1-Shikoku Elec shuts 450-mw oil-fired unit after fire
Japanese utility Shikoku Electric Power Co said on Monday it shut its 450-megawatt No ... lifts ban on export of wheat seeds September 9, 2008 — CURRENCY TRADING SUMMARY – 9th September 2008 ... on U.S. taxes- WSJ December 3, 2008 — S.Korea’s T-bond futures jump on official remark [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 07:21:12
Does ‘Rachel’ have Oscar legs?
One advantage of the hectic festival environment is that, while seeing more movies in a month than is medically advisable, it offers a pretty ruthless method of separating the wheat from the chaff. If a film still sticks ... my attention yesterday which suggested I might not be alone. In their always-interesting Oscar Futures chart [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 16:00:39
DrumBeat: July 4, 2008
ANALYSIS - US oil firms seek drilling access, but exports soar WASHINGTON (Reuters) - While the U.S. oil industry want access to more federal lands to help reduce reliance on foreign suppliers, American-based companies are shipping record amounts of gasoline and diesel fuel to other countries. A record 1.6 million barrels a day in U.S [more...]
Date: 2008-07-04 13:11:11
DrumBeat: August 7, 2008
The Peak Oil Crisis: Masking the Peak As world oil production has never peaked before, there is no historical basis for making informed judgments as to what is going to happen. All we know is that some six billion people, living in some 200 economies on this earth are soon going to be confronted with getting by on less than the 86 million [more...]
Date: 2008-08-07 12:29:19
Celebrity chefs: Jamie blames moms, Nick Nairn calls for soda ban, and Spanish chef wants McDonald’s
can’t cook. Put a less-nice way, he says it’s the fault of working moms who don’t take the time to cook healthy meals for their kids, consigning them to a life of flab. He’s probably at least a little bit right about that. Also about the fact that the current economic problems worldwide are likely to lead to more obesity [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 12:25:17
Munger on Middlemen
Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the often-vilified middleman--someone who buys cheap, sells dear and does nothing to improve the product. Munger explains the economic function of arbitrage using a classic article about how prices emerged in a POW camp during World War II [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 12:39:55
Every Trick in the Book
“Conditions have deteriorated on a scale and with a speed that no one could have predicted just a few months ago. Market conditions of unprecedented strength are roiling the world’s financial markets. The global economy is either in, or close to, recession and 2009 is not likely to be a year of great recovery [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 12:27:30
Has Oil Broken Down?
Commodities These commodity market blowups are becoming all-too-familiar in the last few years ... in a commodity turned into a buying frenzy, fueled at first by speculators caught up in the mere expectation ... at Alaron Trading in Chicago. SemGroup said in its bankruptcy filing that it had bet that crude [more...]
Date: 2008-07-24 16:38:58
Stealthily shrinking sizes now on store shelves keep prices from rising
A tape measure shows the depth of the indentation of a 16.3 ounce jar of Skippy peanut butter next to an 18 ounce jar of the same product. Quantities of peanut butter, soap and other products are reduced to keep up with rising costs. Shoppers may not know they are getting less for their money. Jerry Hirsch, L.A [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 03:25:49
More on Gold and Silver Backwardation and Manipulation (5/5)
“Gold going to permanent backwardation means that gold is no longer for sale at any price, whether it is quoted in dollars, yens, euros, or Swiss francs… To put it differently, all offers to sell gold are being withdrawn.” - Dr. Antal Fekete by Jake, the Champion of the Constitution Originally published December 14, 2008 at http://www [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 22:25:25
2009 Top Stocks: A Bull with Growing Horns
In trading earlier this week, several water companies got off to a great start. Midway through trading on Monday, Northwest Pipe (NASDAQ: NWPX), Layne Christensen (NASDAQ: LAYN), Gorman Rupp (AMEX: GRC), and Badger Meter (NYSE: BMI) were all showing sizable chunks of green.Yet other water industry stalwarts, like Consolidated Water ( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 08:10:00
2009 Top Stocks: A Bull with Growing Horns
In trading earlier this week, several water companies got off to a great start. Midway through trading on Monday, Northwest Pipe (NASDAQ: NWPX), Layne Christensen (NASDAQ: LAYN), Gorman Rupp (AMEX: GRC), and Badger Meter (NYSE: BMI) were all showing sizable chunks of green.Yet other water industry stalwarts, like Consolidated Water ( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 08:10:00
2009 Top Stocks: A Bull with Growing Horns
In trading earlier this week, several water companies got off to a great start. Midway through trading on Monday, Northwest Pipe (NASDAQ: NWPX), Layne Christensen (NASDAQ: LAYN), Gorman Rupp (AMEX: GRC), and Badger Meter (NYSE: BMI) were all showing sizable chunks of green.Yet other water industry stalwarts, like Consolidated Water ( [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 08:10:00
Commodity Boom Turns Bust in 2008 as Worldwide Economy Crumbles
Commodity prices in 2008 plunged the most in five decades as demand for energy, metals and grains tumbled in the second half because of the recession ... . Sugar, gold and hogs were the only other commodities to post gains. Gasoline futures declined ... on July 11. The 2008 low was 78.5 cents on Dec. 24. Crude oil futures tumbled a record 54 percent [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 21:23:20
Commodity Boom Turns Bust in 2008 as Worldwide Economy Crumbles
Commodity prices in 2008 plunged the most in five decades as demand for energy, metals and grains tumbled in the second half because of the recession ... . Sugar, gold and hogs were the only other commodities to post gains. Gasoline futures declined ... on July 11. The 2008 low was 78.5 cents on Dec. 24. Crude oil futures tumbled a record 54 percent [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 09:25:14
Debt Rattle, November 4 2008: There Ain't No Cure
Lewis Wickes Hine A Future Ahead of Him August 1908 Tipple boy at the Turkey Knob coal mine in Macdonald, West Virginia. Works long hours, not a day of school. Ilargi: Yeah, stock exchanges are edging higher, how could they not? There's hope in the air, there'll be a new "leader of the free world" early tomorrow morning [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 20:08:23
Contemptuous of Customers
Many people blame a culture of greed, deception, and short-term-ism in the financial industry for the predicament we are in. In reality, that view is a tad simplistic. Plenty of people were at fault, including the so-called victims, who failed to educate themselves about the realities of what is, in fact, a gigantic selling machine [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 01:50:57
Jon Nadler, Senior Analyst Kitco, Chimes In On The Precious Metals Conspiracy
The amount of hate email I have been receiving in response to The Great Gold, Silver Conspiracy Explained is large but not unsurprising. People simply want to blame others for their own trading mistakes. I will have more on that in a separate post. Most of the emails I received are unprintable because of the profanity [more...]
Date: 2008-08-28 05:05:29
Food Crisis to Resume Next Year?
We haven't spent much time talking about our "World of Shortages" themes since the commodity indexes have crashed, with hedge fund deleveraging being one of the main culprits. Certainly demand destruction is part of the theme as well. However, the implications as we look out past the short term remain dire [more...]
Date: 2008-11-26 11:30:00
Commodity Boom Turns Bust in 2008 as Worldwide Economy Crumbles
Commodity prices in 2008 plunged the most in five decades as demand for energy, metals and grains tumbled in the second half because of the recession ... percent, the most among CRB components. Cocoa climbed 31 percent, the biggest increase. Sugar, gold and hogs were the only other commodities to post gains. Gasoline futures declined to $1.0082 a [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 17:46:41
Learn About Commodity Trading
Have you ever heard investors mention speculating in futures of the commodity market and wondered what it they are talking about? While most of us are familiar with investing in stocks, commodities can be an interesting way to have your money make money for you. But first, you might ask what is a commodity? commodities [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 17:43:07
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