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The conflict in Ukraine has already led nations to reassess their energy security, but with two of the world's biggest grain exporters at war, food security is also making waves. The Hungarian government now has the option to buy any grain destined for export, while Moldova and Serbia have re...

Commodities making new multi-year highs on the Russian-Ukraine War. Why taking profits and selling into markets like soybeans, crude oil and gold make sense. The western U.S. drought is threatening the U.S. wheat crop. For further details see: Commodities, Black Swan Eve...

Cotton futures are trading at their highest levels in a decade, which could lead to higher clothing prices in the months to come. Most-active U.S. cotton futures (CT1:COM) closed today +3.8% to $1.09/lb, capping a 22% surge over the past 11 sessions to the best level since September 2011. ETF...

After the pandemic’s initial spending splurge, the bill is due, and global growth is mean-reverting again. Treasury yields are confirming the disinflationary ride as we thought that they should. Similar trends are unfolding in the great hot north, with Canadian government b...

MSCI US REIT Index rallied 2.7% in June, which marks an impressive run of eight consecutive monthly increases. The Russell 3000 Index jumped 2.5% in June, the fifth straight monthly advance. Comparing GMI to US stocks and bonds shows that global asset allocation remains competitiv...

Spero Therapeutics (SPRO) shares surged 29% premarket in response to $40M equity investment made by Pfizer (PFE).Pfizer has purchased 2,362,348 company's common shares at $16.93 per share.The two parties have also inked a licensing agreement for SPR206, an intravenously (IV)-adminis...

The Fed's hawkish comments coming out of the FOMC meeting last week unsettled markets. As it relates to the equity market, the year has been good for equity investors. At the moment, the underlying economy is strong and is likely to remain so into 2022. For further details s...

The US Fed acknowledged that financial conditions and inflation expectations had rebounded faster than they had predicted, and they now expect to increase their presently near-nil policy rates twice in 2023. Against the commodity-centric loonie, the greenback bounced off the $1.20 dow...

The global commodities complex continued to receive strong investor support over the past month as the world economy entered unfamiliar territory. All forms of transportation are experiencing delays (some intermittently), including ocean freight, air freight, trucking and rail. Ri...

Risks of rising prices are intensifying across the economy as a growing number of companies warn that supply shortages and logjams will compel them to raise prices. In fact, tight inventories have seen prices surge for raw materials, ranging from semiconductors and steel to lumber (LB1:COM) a...