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- Tough Outlook for Commodity Indexes
- Hard Assets Investor submits: Investors in commodity futures - and that includes all the people who own commodity futures ETFs - are in a world of hurt. It's bad enough that spot commodity prices are crashing. Oil is down nearly $100 from its highs, and copper and other commodities are...
- External links 2008-12-03
- Put Your Money Where Gold Might Be
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler One of the risks of keeping charts is reading too much into them. I've had a whole weekend to stare at the chart that gives us the daily subhead you see above. Our monetary inflation indicator, after sinking for months, seems to...
- External links 2008-12-09
- Editor of ETF Digest on Dealing with a Trendless Market
- Hard Assets Investor submits: Dave Fry is the founder and editor of ETF Digest, a subscription-based newsletter that focuses on technical analysis of the ETF market. His picks and pans, driven by trend-following analysis, include a close review of the commodities market. Dave spoke with the editors of...
- External links 2009-01-05
- Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler In a deal set to close this May, Swiss banking group UBS says it will buy the commodity index business of faltering U.S.-based insurer AIG for $15 million in cash and a payment stream that could be worth up to $135 million...
- External links 2009-01-21
- Coffee from the ETN Perspective
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Good things, it's often said, take time. It just may be that time. by Hard Assets Investor
- External links 2009-01-30
- Barclays Downgrade Bites ETNs
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Yesterday morning's news presents some very interesting possibilities. Not interesting in a good way, mind you. As in the ancient curse, you're living in interesting, not good, times. Piling on to the recent scrum in the credit markets, Moody's Investors Service has...
- External links 2009-02-03
- Contango's Cost to Oil ETF Investors
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler We at Hard Assets Investor have written about contango and backwardation many times. The message is worth repeating in times like these. by Hard Assets Investor
- External links 2009-02-11
- Recession MOOting Darling's Gains
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler The recent rendering of the markets has got traders worried. But some investors (no, not short sellers) hope that rendering actually leads to profits. Darling International Inc. (NYSE: DAR), the largest publicly traded food by-products recycling company in the United States, releases...
- External links 2009-03-04
- Food Prices Continue to Deflate
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Inflation Indicator per annum: 7.5% Inflation hasn't gone away. At least on a month-to-month basis according to the U.S. Labor Department's latest Producer Price Index report. Wholesale prices inched up 0.1% in February, much lower than the 0.8% uptick in January....
- External links 2009-03-18
- How Far Down for the Gold / Oil Ratio?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: by Brad Zigler Real-time Inflation Indicator per annum: 8.6% Gold or oil? How are you going to hedge? by Hard Assets Investor
- External links 2009-03-25
- Index Speculators: We'll Be Seeing You
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Inflation Indicator per annum: 8.6% Ah, those were the days, weren't they? by Hard Assets Investor
- External links 2009-03-31
- Energy ETFs Are Not to Blame for Speculation
- Hard Assets Investor submits: Written by Lara Crigger All this week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] has conducted hearings investigating the role of speculation in the energy markets. And while the end results remain to be seen, one thing seems certain: Position limits are coming to an exchange...
- External links 2009-08-07
- Why Commodities Are Edging out Futures
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 4.3%* Investors, rather than traders, have had the advantage in the commodities markets this year. Largely, that's because stockholders can outlast highly leveraged futures traders while waiting for a trend to develop. Of course, you can always...
- External links 2009-08-24
- Are Commodities Still a Safe Haven?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: To limit or not to limit? That is the question on Washington's mind right now, as regulators struggle with how best to cope with the volatility of commodities funds like UNG. Given the regulatory frenzy over energy ETFs, we thought it might be a good...
- External links 2009-09-22
- Commodities and Speculators: Argument for Position Limits Non-Existent
- Hard Assets Investor submits: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission isn't expected to deliver its final verdict on new position limits and other market restrictions until later this month, but already we've seen plenty of reaction, including DXO's liquidation and the development of new indices. Expect it to continue,...
- External links 2009-10-05
- Sign of the Times: Long, Short and Flat in One Index
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Index investors used to be easy to spot. They once wore "long-only" signs around their necks. Recently, though, indexes of all sorts have been created that aren't limited to simple buy-and-hold methodologies. We now have "strategy indexes" that allow for short, long...
- External links 2009-10-06
Additional Resources
- ETF Insights: The New Hard Assets Producers ETF
- Carl T. Delfeld submits: The newest member of the innovative Van Eck family of exchange-traded funds is the Market Vectors-RVE Hard Assets Producers ETF HAP, the first and only global hard assets ETF. This ETF seeks to replicate the price and yield performance of The RogersTM -...
- External links 2008-09-04
- (Natural) Gas Pains and UNG
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Julian Murdoch Has the U.S. Natural Gas ETF (NYSE Arca: UNG) gotten almost too big for its britches? The fund, which began trading two years ago, has generated so much interest that it has had to ask the SEC for permission to expand, not...
- External links 2009-06-22
- Nicholas Brooks on the Outlook for Silver
- Hard Assets Investor submits: Last week, European ETF titan ETF Securities started trading its first U.S. fund, the bullion- backed ETFS Silver Trust (NYSE Arca: SIVR). But with five products already on the books, does the American silver market have room for another ETF? That's why we decided to...
- External links 2009-07-31
- How Regulation Will Force ETFs to Evolve
- Hard Assets Investor submits: It seems like every other day, regulators are coming up with new plans on how to increase the controls over the commodities markets: Rep. Barney Frank's proposal on limiting derivatives; CFTC chairman Gary Gensler's plans to regulate the over-the-counter market; the CFTC's proposal to close...
- External links 2009-10-09
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