commodity

Commodity Rankings

Yesterday we reviewed our list of 48 commodities and how they fared during the month of July. Today we look at the big picture, how rankings change when looking back year to date with seven months now in the books. Energies, no surprise, remain 1, 2, and 3 after seven months. Heating oil, number one, crude oil, and gasoline. Soy …

stocks

Uncertainty Impacting the Markets

Markets don’t perform well, dealing with uncertainty, and there’s plenty of it at midweek. Wall Street CME Group in Chicago facing uncertainty from multiple fronts. Usually it’s maybe one major world event or perhaps a domestic issue here, but as we head to March, markets dealing with tariff uncertainty, ongoing and escalating tensions with Iran, weather in the Northeast, and a never-ending AI fears. That VIX or fear index, …