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By Elizabeth Campbell |
October 28, 2012
Speculators lowered bullish wagers on commodities for the third straight week, the longest streak since April, as prices erased this year’s gain.
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By Mark Shenk and Moming Zhou, Bloomberg |
October 26, 2012
Oil pared a second weekly loss, rising with gasoline and heating oil on concern that Hurricane Sandy will disrupt East Coast refinery production and as the U.S. economy showed signs of growth.
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By Whitney McFerron, Bloomberg |
October 12, 2012
Soybeans fell in Chicago, extending a fourth weekly slide, after a U.S. government report showed improving prospects for global supplies. Corn and wheat dropped.
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By Moming Zhou, Bloomberg |
September 14, 2012
The power of hurricanes to drive up oil prices is diminishing as the proportion of U.S. crude coming from the Gulf of Mexico falls to a 14-year low because of the increase in onshore shale production.
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By Isis Almeida, Bloomberg |
September 14, 2012
Sugar traders are the most bullish in two months on speculation rain may again disrupt the harvest in Brazil, the world’s largest producer, just as output and exports from second-ranking India decline.
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By Jeff Wilson and Tony C. Dreibus, Bloomberg |
September 11, 2012
The smallest U.S. soybean harvest in nine years will leave inventories in the world’s largest exporting nation at the lowest in four decades.
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By Elizabeth Campbell, Bloomberg |
September 2, 2012
Speculators increased bets on rising gold prices to the highest since March on mounting speculation that the Federal Reserve will expand its record stimulus.
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By Tony C. Dreibus, Bloomberg |
August 20, 2012
Speculators held positions on rising commodities near the highest in 11 months as speculation that China will act to bolster its economy and signs of improving U.S. growth boosted prices for a third consecutive week.
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By Prashant Gopal, Bloomberg |
July 24, 2012
Home values posted their first year- over-year increase since 2007 in the second quarter as the U.S. property market began to lift off a bottom, Zillow Inc. said.
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By Jeff Kearns and Joshua Zumbrun, Bloomberg |
July 11, 2012
A few Federal Reserve policy makers said the central bank will probably need to take further action to boost the labor market and meet its inflation target, according to minutes of their June meeting.
