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Barclays (NYSE:BCS) announced that it has halted further sales of 30 iPath ETNs. The move comes as the company plans a restatement of financial details, triggering a regulatory requirement that it stop selling the investment vehicles. The suspension went into effect at the open of trading on ...
Direxion Shares outlines a new plan to unveil six new commodity-based exchange traded funds that focus on lumber, copper, corn, soybeans, coffee, and breakfast commodities in accordance with the firm’s latest U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The six ETFs are as follows: ...
Commodities exposure, designed carefully, can provide effective inflation defense and portfolio diversification. After nearly a decade of struggles and underinvestment, the supportive infrastructure and supply for many commodities have become strained. Commodities don’t all...
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...
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...
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...
Murilo Gualda /iStock via Getty Images Agriculture related stocks join other commodities in falling sharply in the wake of the Federal Reserve's higher interest rate outlook. Sugar (SB1:COM) and coffee (KC1:COM) futures slide to three-week lows, and other crop futures from soybeans to corn al...
Metals prices are flirting with record levels, agricultural markets are trading at multi-year highs, and oil has staged an impressive recovery. The post-Covid-19 recovery is clearly bullish for commodities. However, what is less clear is whether we can call this a super-cycle. We ...