Demand for oil has dropped off so much from the current slowdown that the recent agreement to cut production by 10 million barrels a day hasn’t come close to fixing this. We invest in stocks presumably to make money, although when we look at how oil stocks have done over the last 6 years, there’s […]

The coronavirus scare and gold are made for each other. The soft commodities have taken a hit, but several commodities advisors see this as a good opportunity. It didn’t really take much know-how for us to recommend going long gold when the coronavirus that still grips the financial world broke out not so long ago. […]

Energy analyst Joe McMonagle, former chief of staff at the Department of Energy, expects oil prices to rise over the next few months. Is this belief reliable enough to bet on? While both investing and trading both place bets on the direction of a security, this doesn’t mean that we can just put our money […]

The corn market got hit with a surprise on Monday as the USGA’s latest projections on the current crop season hit the street. Things aren’t as bad as the market thought. Between the middle of May and the middle of June of this year, corn prices really heated up due to all of the rain […]

While consumers may be none too happy about all the rain that fell in the Corn Belts lately, for those who have been long corn, it’s been raining money over the last few weeks. While there are more than a few people who speculate or wish to speculate in agricultural futures that just think that […]

While oil prices have been in an upward trend since late December of last year, tracking the stock markets pretty closely, it is now experiencing its biggest pullback since the rally began. The price of oil and the price of stocks are somewhat positively correlated, but to look at this relationship over the last 6 […]

The crux of the trade war between China and the United States has been the massive trade deficit between the two countries. China has now offered to fix this problem. The most contentious issue with trade relations between the United States and China is the trade deficit between the two countries. In 2017, the U.S. […]

While many marveled at the tremendous growth that we have seen in the Chinese economy in recent times, we knew that this sort of growth rate could not continue forever. We’re already seeing signs of concern here, where by any measure, we could call this a slowdown, a genuine one. One of the real key […]