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- Breaking for Some Coffee Action
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Ziegler There's nothing like a bracing cuppa joe in the morning to get one's mind ready for the trading day. The trouble with drinking coffee, as opposed to tea, is the absence of leaves at the bottom of one's cup. How's one to...
- External links 2009-07-17
- Surprise! Wholesale Prices Jumped in June
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 3.6%* The Producer Price Index [PPI] figures for June caught analysts by surprise, big time, this morning. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS] says prices for finished goods jumped 1.8% in June. The consensus on the...
- External links 2009-07-14
- A Big Bearish Day for Agriculture
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Julian Murdoch After expecting lower numbers due to rain-slowed plantings, the market reacted to the news that it looks like we're heading for another bumper year - assuming historical harvesting trends hold true. by Hard Assets Investor
- External links 2009-07-02
- Can Copper Keep It Up?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Julian Murdoch With copper prices hitting record highs, many are hoping that the metal will be a sign of things to come for the rest of the economy. But is it too soon to start calling a recovery? Depends on what you read. by...
- External links 2009-07-24
- Can Copper Keep It up?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Julian Murdoch With copper prices hitting record highs, many are hoping that the metal will be a sign of things to come for the rest of the economy. But is it too soon to start calling a recovery? Depends on what you read. by...
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- Peter Cardillo on the End of the Recession and the Rebound of Commodities
- Hard Assets Investor submits: Mike Norman, anchor, HardAssetsInvestor.com Norman: Hello everybody, and welcome to HardAssetsInvestor.com’s interview series. I’m Mike Norman, your host. Today my guest is Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Avalon Partners. Peter, thanks for coming back on the show; I appreciate it. How have you been?Peter...
- External links 2009-06-05
- The Joy of Soy(beans)
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Julian Murdoch There's no question that May was a good month for soybeans - heck, this whole spring's been good for soybean prices. by Hard Assets Investor
- External links 2009-06-01
- Veni, Vidi, Vanadium - The Key to Steel
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Tom Vulcan Back in March 2006, Asahi Soft Drinks, together with Asahi Breweries, Tokyo Medical University and Nihon Pharmaceutical University, announced the results of research they had recently undertaken regarding vanadium and diabetes. Using the results of experiments on mice, the four...
- External links 2009-05-26
- Wither Wheat?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Julian Murdoch I've been doing a lot of bread baking around the house lately, and it has led to some interesting discussions with the kids about where flour comes from and what the difference is between the different ones we use. The market has...
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- Is Sugar a Sucker Play?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 8.4% Wanna make a quick half-cent? Then take a look at October sugar. by Hard Assets Investor
- External links 2009-06-25
- Tellurim: Hard to Find, Easy to Smell
- Hard Assets Investor submits: by Tom Vulcan What Is Tellurium? Tellurium is a silvery-white metal with the atomic No. 52. It's closely associated with selenium, its periodic table neighbor, and the two metals are often found together. by Hard Assets Investor
- External links 2009-06-24
- Copper-Hued Sunset?
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 8.4% Is the sun setting on copper's rally? You'd certainly think so, judging from the market's reaction to today's report of record Chinese imports. by Hard Assets Investor
- External links 2009-06-22
- Commodities, Globality and the Next Billion Customers
- Hard Assets Investor submits: What is the end result of globalization? A new era of international hypercompetition - and sky-high commodities prices - called "globality," says Harold [Hal] L. Sirkin, co-author of 2008's "Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything." Sirkin, senior partner of the Boston Consulting Group's...
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- Housing Starts Just Can't Support Copper
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Julian Murdoch ...
- External links 2009-06-19
- Led by Energy, Producer Prices Tick up Again
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Real-time Monetary Inflation per annum: 8.6% A 2.9% rise in wholesale energy costs in May pushed the Producer Price Index [PPI] for finished goods 0.2% higher in May, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The uptick followed a 0.3% advance...
- External links 2009-06-16
- Kevin Kerr: A Whirlwind Change for the Commodities Market
- Hard Assets Investor submits: With over 20 years' experience in natural resources, Kevin Kerr (the "Maniac Trader") is one of the most recognizable analysts in the commodities biz today. Kerr is the president and CEO of Kerr Trading International, editor of the Global Commodities Alert and a frequent voice...
- External links 2009-06-15
- Paul Quatararo of SPECTRA Resources Calls a Bottom in Steel
- Hard Assets Investor submits: Mike Norman, HardAssetsInvestor.com Norman: Hello everyone, and welcome to HardAssetsInvestor.com's interview series. I'm Mike Norman, your host. Well, after doubling in price, steel has come down sharply – in fact retracing all of its gains over the past few years in very short order. Here...
- External links 2009-02-08
- CPI: 'C' Is for 'Cocoa'
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Is it a surprise that the Labor Department's Consuer Price Index [CPI] – a benchmark heavily weighted in energy costs – declined for the third consecutive month in December? It's precisely because of the volatile nature of energy and food prices that...
- External links 2009-01-19
- Commodities Roll Yield in 2009
- Hard Assets Investor submits: Let's start with the obvious: 2008 was a difficult year for commodity investors. In fact, it was the worst year ever, with the S&P GSCI falling 42.35%. The horrible thing was that it all felt so good right up through summer. The S&P GSCI was...
- External links 2009-01-12
- A Real Commodity Moneymaker
- Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler Wednesday's column ("2008 Was Golden ... Barely") left some readers with the impression that there were hardly any winners among the exchange-traded products [ETPs] tracking commodities. by Hard Assets Investor
- External links 2009-01-09
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