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Rogers/Van Eck Index Captures Global Market
The Rogers Van Eck Hard Assets Producers Index (RVE) might be the first legitimate benchmark for global commodity equities.
  • Instead of buying the milk, they buy the cow
  • The upside of global commodity equities
  • The downside of picks and shovels
Julian Murdoch Thursday, 19 June 2008
 
PPI: The Numbers Behind The Numbers

Once again, we're forced to find comfort in "core" inflation measures. This morning's Producer Price Index (PPI) released from the Bureau of Labor Statistics offers both salve and fresh pain.

Brad Zigler Tuesday, 17 June 2008
 
The CPI For Breakfast: Hmmm, mmm!
This morning's Consumer Price Index release brought no joy to breakfast tables in America. CPI rose at an unexpectedly high 0.8% clip in May according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Pundits, analysts and Manny the Bookie were laying odds on a 0.5% uptick in inflation after last month's 0.2% increase. The May surge translates to a 4.2% annual inflation rate.
Brad Zigler Friday, 13 June 2008
 
Calming Proposals For Volatile Ag Markets
Calming Proposals For Volatile Ag MarketsDelving into the CFTC's new initiatives regarding the disconnect between futures prices and cash bids, as well as market transparency.
  • The role of the index fund
  • Increased margin fees at issue
  • Potential limiting of players
Phil Franz-Warkentin Wednesday, 11 June 2008
 
Marc Chandler Examines Changing Currencies
Marc Chandler, chief currency strategist for Brown Brothers Harriman, explores the link between oil, gold, the euro and the dollar.
  • Saudis still dealing in dollars
  • Gold: the good alternative?
  • Relatively no cost to the weak dollar
Marc Chandler Examines Changing Currencies
HardAssetsInvestor.com Tuesday, 10 June 2008
 
Happy Birthday, iPath ETNs!
Slice the cake, pour the punch and let's hope we're not headed into the "terrible twos" now that two groundbreaking exchange-traded notes are celebrating their two-year anniversaries. The iPath S&P/GSCI Total Return Index ETN (NYSE Arca: GSP) and the iPath Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index Total Return ETN (NYSE Arca: DJP) reached that milestone Friday.
Brad Zigler Monday, 09 June 2008
 
Plenty To Choose From In New Filings
This week, securities regulators' coffee tab shot up - big time - as a plethora of new ETF filings for the commodity space threatened to keep workers reading late into the night.
Brad Zigler Wednesday, 28 May 2008
 
Barry Ritholtz Sees More Upside In Commodities
With the Fed printing money and global demand continuing to grow, Ritholtz says the long-term trends are intact.
  • Fed fuels inflation
  • Institutions move into the market
  • Gold has further to go up
HardAssetsInvestor.com Tuesday, 06 May 2008
 
Commodity Perspective - S&P GSCI™ - April 2008
Standard & Poor's Monday, 05 May 2008
 
Barry Ritholtz Wants Us To Stay Cautious
Fusion IQ’s CEO thinks that the entire 2003–2007 economy recovery was “backwards," and that we’re starting to pay the price.
  • Market to drop further
  • No virtuous cycle of raised wages
  • The Greenspan put hits payback
HardAssetsInvestor.com Tuesday, 29 April 2008
 
Are We Doomed? Norman and Schiff Debate America’s Future
Peter Schiff says the U.S. economy is doomed, and that the dollar is nearing collapse. Can Mike Norman convince him otherwise?
  • The dollar's down, but you ain't seen nothing yet
  • Do we need to produce "hard goods" in our economy?
  • The dollar is up 400% over the past 40 years
HardAssetsInvestor.com Tuesday, 22 April 2008
 
Chicago Fed: Recession Lite
Welcome to another "good news, bad news" morning. Today's release of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank's National Activity Index shows economic activity, though slow in March (that's the bad news), was not as slow as in February (that's the good news).
Brad Zigler Monday, 21 April 2008
 
Where Are The Short Funds?
As the commodity markets gyrate, HAI Managing Editor Brad Zigler wonders: Where are all the bear-market funds?
  • Commodities boom can't go on forever
  • The successful DB Gold funds
  • Playing the crack spread with ETFs
Brad Zigler Tuesday, 15 April 2008
 
Commodity Perspective - S&P GSCI™ - March 2008
Standard & Poor's Wednesday, 09 April 2008
 
UBS ETNs Seek To Smooth Out Commodity Ride
Another family of commodity products? Commodity ETNs that span the spectrum of exposure.
  • An all-encompassing approach
  • A direct showdown with competing strategies
  • Which will produce better returns?
John Ransom Wednesday, 09 April 2008
 
Behind The Green Curtain - Commodity Index Funds?
Is Gene Epstein of Barron's right? Are index funds really skewing the commodity markets? A close look at the numbers.
  • Fact-checking Epstein's article
  • Commodity-by-commodity long exposure
  • Ready for a pullback?
Brad Zigler Tuesday, 08 April 2008
 
An Interview With Gary Gastineau

Wheat fieldAre commodity ETFs all they can be? HardAssetsInvestor.com speaks with one of the leading lights in the ETF industry.

  • Why do all the broad-based commodity ETFs charge 0.75%?
  • What about actively managed commodity funds?
  • Do investors understand these ETFs?
Maureen Nevin Duffy Friday, 15 February 2008
 
The Inequality of Equal-Weighting

World (#11) sugar futures started Friday trying to digest news of ever-building inventories of sweetener piling up in offshore ports ...

Brad Zigler Tuesday, 12 February 2008
 
GSCI Or DJ-AIG?

Which is a better fit for a diversified portfolio: the GSCI or the DJ-AIG?

  • Volatility is your friend
  • How can lower returns mean higher returns?
  • Building a strong asset allocation portfolio
Larry Swedroe Tuesday, 05 February 2008
 
Commodities Make The Economic World Go 'Round - Part II

Robert Hormats, Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs International, talks about the year ahead and what may be in store for the oil market.

  • Oil and ethanol demand
  • Who controls the oil supply?
  • New investors are entering oil markets
Administrator Tuesday, 29 January 2008
 
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