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Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesAny time a market peaks, investors and commentators talk about the expectations of a sell-off. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average peaked less than two...
The size of this year's corn crop is expected to be smaller than last year's, raising the price farmers can expect to get for their crop and raising the price that consumers pay for corn flakes.
ThinkstockHow long should a winning streak really last in the stock market? A casual market observer might think the market has a 50-50 chance of being up or down on any given day, so what about when...
If you want proof that the emerging market BRIC trade strategy of Brazil, Russia, India and China is less and less opportunistic now, what does it tell you when a credit rating agency downgrades one...
Jon OggThe pro-Japan quantitative easing trade is coming to an end. At least that is what Credit Suisse has telegraphed in its global equity strategy sector outlook. The firm’s Andrew Garthwaite...
ThinkstockCredit Suisse’s Jahanzeb Naseer is out with an Indonesia market strategy call. Most investors know the term BRIC for Brazil, Russia, India and China. Now the new term is MINT, for Mexico,...
ThinkstockVladimir Putin’s decision to try to seize Crimea from Ukraine may make nationalists happy, but investors — Russian or otherwise — are getting clobbered. Russian stocks have been in a...
Some investors love dividends, while others prefer share buybacks to drive the shares higher through time. 24/7 Wall St. recently had a chance to speak with Minyi Chen, who is the portfolio manager...
MLPs have become more prevalent in investor portfolios over the past couple of years. The problem is that this segment of the oil and gas sector has seen its valuations become lofty as investors have...
thinkstockThe trade in natural gas just became more interesting. After the polar vortex created snow storm after snow storm, temperatures around the U.S. have not been crazy for a week. So even ahead...
ThinkstockGold is back. After challenging $1,200 per ounce in December, gold bugs have become bullish again and the shiny yellow metal is back above $1,300 per ounce. Now a key technical milestone...
White House Photo by Pete SouzaAs many consider Warren Buffett to be the greatest investor of modern times, investors want to know any time there are big changes in the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:...
ThinkstockBeing in the gold mining and production business sure lost its luster, compared to when gold was on its way up to $2,000 per ounce. All things, even bad things, can come to an end — maybe...
ThinkstockGoldman Sachs and other investment firms warned that the market was getting more and more at risk of a 10% stock market correction, with the caveat that stocks would resume the bull market...
As gold prices have fallen, many investors have begun to actively seek alternatives from among the many possible choices available today. These are five unusual alternatives investments to gold.