Trader Dan's Market Views

Much has been made at the usual sites about Foreign Central Banks supposedly not buying US Treasuries. One has to always take these claims w...

Regular readers of the site will recall that I have been commenting on the rise in the price of beef this spring and summer. The reason goes...

It did not take long for the longs in the gold mining sector to start a wave of profit taking. That came in when the mining indices could no...

Iraq turmoil; Portugal turmoil; Israel turmoil; Ukraine turmoil - add them all together and you get a higher gold price. The flip side is lo...

Ever since that last USDA report, wherein the agency surprised the market with a big jump in planted acreage, the beans have been on the def...

Not that it has made the least bit of difference to the continuing price rise over the last year, but each new weekly high in this very risk...

Benevolent weather and falling demand ( in anticipation of weaker prices ahead ) has led to heavy selling across the entirety of the grain f...

The ADP numbers yesterday were indeed a precursor to today's very strong payrolls number. The market was expecting a good number and tha...