Financial Sense Exclusives on Commodities
8 Apr 2013
With a lot of attention being focused on record-high prices for agricultural commodities like corn, soybeans, and wheat, Ag-Commodity expert Ned Schmidt shares with Financial Sense what’s driving prices higher, what to look out for when investing...
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3 Apr 2013
The changes in precipitation patterns created by the negative Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) have made some agricultural areas more productive and others more drought-prone. This article has maps that show which areas of the globe will be facing...
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10 Jan 2013
Today, we got the ECB meeting and the Chinese trade metrics – both of which were bullish catalysts for commodities. The effects of both announcements today were effective in bidding up the euro and supplying the market with U.S. dollars.
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4 Sep 2012
Only a few years ago more than half our electricity was generated from coal. In the first quarter of 2012 the generation of electricity from coal dropped 21 percent from 2011 levels. The immediate culprit is the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAP).
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6 Jul 2012
The ongoing “Arab Spring” in the energy-rich Middle East has been fueled by rising food prices and economic stagnation – two factors that continue to play a major part in political developments in that part of the world.
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5 Jul 2012
The dollar strengthened today based on foreign central bank policy steps. Oddly enough, while the dollar strengthened the CRB index was up small. That’s because soft commodities like corn, wheat, OJ, and soybeans led the index higher with strong...
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10 May 2012
How many times do you hear someone blame the oil speculators for high oil prices? Our family and friends have told us, in no uncertain terms, that the hedge fund speculators are to blame.
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6 Sep 2011
Given the extremity of current monetary and debt dynamics, it is difficult to know where the dollar and euro may be in the coming days and months. This article attempts to take some of this uncertainty out of the equation and look strictly at...
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19 Jul 2011
While headlines are dominated by the daily flip-flops of European and American political leaders, commodity supply fundamentals continue their generally bullish track. While it is impossible to predict the outcome of Oligarch clashes in the Western...
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8 Jul 2011
In 1995 Little Brown published Riding the Business Cycle that described the forces acting on the world and their likely impact based on history; I mistakenly believed that the crunch would occur in the 1990s which, had it done so, would have...
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