Commodities
Learn how commodity investing -- in metals, energy and agricultural crops -- can help enhance portfolio performance and diversify risk.
Speculators -- Victims or vultures?
By John SullivanBoth presidential candidates would have you believe speculators are an evil, sub-human form of life coming to eat your children. The facts, regardless of the...
April 01, 2008
Commodities Shine in Current MarketThe bull market that left the stock market has rediscovered itself in commodities. One of the latest commodity funds to hit the ETF market is the...
March 01, 2008
New Commodities ETFThe Greenhaven Continuous Commodity Index Fund (GCC) is the latest entrant in the fast growing arena of commodity ETFs. The fund will track the Continuous Commodity...
March 01, 2008
Subprime ProphetGary Shilling meets me at the bar of the restaurant with a large plastic jar in his hands. Since developing a serious beekeeping hobby a...
December 01, 2007
Behind the Numbers, with Lincoln Anderson"a cranky contrarian" is how the chief economist for LPL Financial describes himself. His "mantra these days is 'worry about your winners,'" those asset classes...
September 01, 2007
Rydex's Innovative Managed Futures FundThe Standard & Poor's Diversified Trends Indicator on which the Rydex Managed Futures Fund (RYMTX) is based is an index composed of 14 sectors, equally...
July 01, 2007
Commodities Garner RespectIf soaring commodity prices haven't caught your attention, maybe the rising number of exchange-traded products tracking them has. Halfway through the second quarter of 2007,...
December 01, 2006
Roiled By OilConventional wisdom suggests that oil prices increased eightfold, from less than $10 per barrel in 1999 to a peak of $77 per barrel in mid-2006,...