Last year’s torrential rains across Latin America are over and things have dried out, a little too much. For commodity traders the most recent news is that soybean futures are up on news of South American drought. The combination of high global demand for food, the prospect of diminished production capacity, and futures trading make [...]

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Home sales are edging up according to the National Association of Realtors. What do rising home sales tell us about the economy and about stock trading opportunities? Apparently more folks in the USA signed more sales agreements in January than in any month since 2010. The stock market took this as good news and stocks [...]

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Now that all parties are on board for Greek debt relief we need to ask just what the Euro Zone bailout package consequences will be. The immediate result will be the Greece will not default on its national debt in March of this year. But what else is going to happen as a result? Will [...]

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The most recent effects of the Iranian crisis on oil trading have been a rise in the prices of oil futures. Europe is edging closer to an agreement to forestall a Greek debt default. The US economic picture is slowly brightening. Both of these factors would tend to drive up the prices of oil futures. [...]

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The Shanghai Composite Stock index lost a third of its value in 2010 and 2011. Trading a Chinese stock decline could continue into 2012 as well. Europe is China’s biggest customer and the prospect of fiscal austerity coupled with another recession in Europe has driven Chinese industrial production downwards. Stocks in China are down across [...]

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