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Commodities were on mostly sound footing in the first half of 2019. The S&P GSCI returned more than 13 percent as of June 30, one of the best first six months in recent memory. It was not without its challenges, though. In a repeat of last year, crude oil was the top-performing commodity...

When I last covered the CME Group, Inc. ( CME ), I explained why the company offers an incredible growth trajectory for investors. I wrote that the "CME and their shares are likely to continue to appreciate for as long and far as the eye can see." On March 11, the day that piece came out, the ...

The raw material markets posted a small loss in the second quarter of 2019 even though the dollar index moved lower as trade issues between the US and China remained unresolved on the final trading day of the first half of the year. The commodity asset class consisting of 29 of the primary com...

By Carley Garner At a Glance Energy, grain, livestock and currency markets can all be affected by Fed decisions. Traders tend to focus on the interest rate and stock market going into a Federal Reserve meeting, but monetary policy often has profound impacts on commodity trade as well...

On June 10, the world will find out if President Trump's announcement on May 31 that he would be slapping tariffs on Mexican exports to the United States was a bluff or the real thing. The tariffs are supposed to go into effect this week at 5% and will rise by 5% each month. Eventually, the ma...

My first exposure to the commodities business was during the summer of 1976 when I was a summer intern at Philipp Brothers, one of the world's leading raw material merchant trading companies. Little did I know that spending the summer delivering telex messages to the traders and traffic clerks...

Capital growth and dividends attract investors to the stock market. Over my lifetime, which is coming up on six decades, investing savings in the stock market produced incredible returns. Despite the occasional correction, which is always ugly and frightening when it appears, owning a diversif...

Milestone achieved less than two years after ETF debuted The GraniteShares Gold Trust (NYSE Arca: BAR), one of the lowest-cost* gold ETFs on the market, has surpassed $500 million in assets under management (AUM) on the heels of recent market uncertainty. BAR debuted in August 2017...

Investment Thesis Commodities contribute diversification and can significantly increase a portfolio's return. However, the menu of commodity funds is colorful, the funds themselves can be vastly different from each other, and not all of them invest in the actual commodity itself. I tend to p...

I have been trading and analyzing commodities prices for almost four decades. In the late 1970s, a summer job at the world's leading commodities trading company turned out to be an invaluable education that would lead to a career choice. I was always interested in politics, history, and econom...