Equities have achieved huge gains over the past century when measured in U.S. dollars. But how have they performed relative to gold? […]
Natural gas prices in Europe and Asia are about five and eight times higher, respectively, than in the U.S. […]
The Fed's rate hikes are a withdrawal of its accommodative stance, not a tightening of policy that could restrict growth. […]
The economy is doing just fine based on data tracking air travel, commuter traffic, dining out, and shopping in grocery stores. […]
The Export Sales Reporting Program monitors U.S. agricultural export sales on a daily and weekly basis.The program requires U.S. exporters to report sales of certain commodities to FAS each week. Commodities currently covered by the program are wheat, wheat products, barley, corn, grain sorghum, oats, rye, rice, soybeans, soybean cake and meal, […]
This report contains a weekly summary of grains weighed for export in metric tons, including totals for the current and previous market year to date. Included are grains prepared for export weekly by country of destination and port area. […]
This full-text report, issued four times yearly, presents data on the U.S. pig crop for 16 major states and the U.S., including inventory number by class, weight group, farrowings, and farrowing intentions. Pigs per litter and pig crop by quarter are also covered in the report. Data was gathered from a random sample of approximately 7,500 U.S. […]
This file contains the monthly total number of cattle and calves on feed, placements, marketings, and other disappearances; by class and feedlot capacity for selected states; number of feedlots and fed cattle marketings by size groups for selected states. Data is organized by state and by U.S. […]
Read about the strengths of Cushing as a crude oil trading and storage hub and, in turn, for hedging crude price risk as storage utilization levels rise. […]
Read about the strengths of Cushing as a crude oil trading and storage hub and, in turn, for hedging crude price risk as storage utilization levels rise. […]
Read how Crude Oil grade futures contracts from CME Group are helping participants manage arbitrage risk between evolving US and global markets. […]
Volatility in the butane and propane markets has increased along with futures trading as companies look to exchanges to manage price risk exposure. […]
The Department of Agriculture releases at the end of the month the index of prices received by farmers for the preceeding month. Prices received represent sales from producers to first buyers. They include all grades and qualities. For most items, the current month's preliminary price represents a 3-5 day period around the 15th of the month. […]
The Baker Hughes North American rig count tracks weekly changes in the number of active operating oil & gas rigs. Used for drilling wellbores for wells that may eventually produce oil or gas, active rigs are essential for the exploration and development of oil and gas fields. Rigs that are not active are not counted. Components in the data are […]
The Institute For Supply Management - Chicago compiles a survey and a composite diffusion index of business conditions in the Chicago area. Since October 2011, the survey has been conducted by Market News International. Manufacturing and non-manufacturing firms both are surveyed. Hence, it is not directly comparable to pure manufacturing surveys. […]
The Fed's balance sheet is a weekly report presenting a consolidated balance sheet for all 12 Reserve Banks that lists factors supplying reserves into the banking system and factors absorbing reserves from the system. The report is officially named Factors Affecting Reserve Balances, otherwise known as the "H.4.1" report.In September 2017, the Fed […]
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Bob Iaccino, Path Trading Partners […]
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