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By Tony C. Dreibus and Jeff Wilson, Bloomberg |
April 23, 2013
The coldest start ever to the wheat-growing season in Kansas and freezing weather across the southern Great Plains are compounding damage to U.S. crops already hurt by the worst drought since the 1930s.
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By Phil Flynn |
April 8, 2013
Natural gas broke out above $4.00 in decisive fashion as the trade seemed to embrace the fact that Goldman Sachs has upped their natural gas forecast and catching up with the bottom that I called in January.
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By Steve Matthews and Caroline Salas Gage, Bloomberg |
January 30, 2013
Since Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke in September began a third round of asset purchases aimed at lowering interest rates and spurring growth, bond yields have climbed. The trend may signal that his program is working.
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By Phil Flynn |
November 21, 2012
We all have a lot to be thankful for, especially if you are a commodity news junkie. It seems we have had a cornucopia of news and it just keeps giving.
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By Sonja Elmquist, Bloomberg |
October 22, 2012
Peabody Energy Corp., the largest U.S. coal producer by volume, reported third-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates after selling more coal from its mines in Australia and Wyoming’s Powder River Basin.
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By Liz Capo McCormick and Daniel Kruger, Bloomberg |
October 22, 2012
The world’s biggest bond traders say the Federal Reserve will decide before year-end to buy Treasuries in addition to purchasing $40 billion of mortgage bonds a month
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By Joshua Zumbrun and Jeff Kearns, Bloomberg |
September 12, 2012
The Federal Reserve is likely to announce a third round of bond purchases tomorrow, according to almost two-thirds of economists in a Bloomberg survey, while also extending the duration of its zero-interest-rate policy into 2015.
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By Liz Capo McCormick and Susanne Walker, Bloomberg |
September 10, 2012
Just six months ago, money market traders expected the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates by the end of 2013. Now, they see borrowing costs staying at record lows for about three more years as the economic outlook worsens.
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By Shobhana Chandra and Steve Matthews, Bloomberg |
September 10, 2012
Wages are stagnating as the job market cools, restraining the consumer spending that is needed to sustain the U.S. economic recovery.
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By Shobhana Chandra, Bloomberg |
September 7, 2012
Payrolls rose less than projected in August and the unemployment rate was unexpectedly driven down by Americans leaving the labor force, boosting the odds of additional Federal Reserve easing to spur a faltering recovery.
