Cotton closed a little higher for the week and in response to the USDA production reports that showed less production this year. West Texas weather remains...
Two things stand out this past week. First the gold mini-crash and second the failure of the broader indices to make new all-time highs. For the...
Along with the Federal Government, corporations around the world have seen their balance sheets suffer. Wall Street is hoping that all of these troubling situations will...
The FOMC became the buyer of the last resort to “support market valuations” using inflation to purchase shares at prices everyone else refused to pay. The...
Most blue-chip companies trading on Wall Street have assumed massive debts (post 2007-09 market crash) to fund their share buybacks and dividend programs. Because of this,...
The US Dollar is currently the world's reserve currency with many commodities such as oil, copper, grains, gold, etc. being traded in the main for US...
The market acts as if there is a short supply of White Sugar available. The Brazil mills are trying to cover the lack of White Sugar...
It was barely noticeable but the Fed`s asset purchases may have slowed. This past week Fed assets actually went down $74 billion. Is the punch bowl...
The best examples of retirees or soon to be retirees receiving healthy defined benefit pensions are in the public sector. These include government officials, teachers, and...
BLM protests are rocking America, thousands are still without jobs, yet the stock market continues to see record rises. In order to understand why we need...