Prices for copper, gold, wheat, corn and oil are soaring. But how can small investors can take advantage of this growth without taking on way too much risk? That’s a good question, indeed. And here are some good answers.
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Interest rates are the price of money, and though that price is near zero right now, the cost of low interest rates to our nation may be too high. Low rates are squeezing savers, seniors, banks and pension funds, and the benefi…
In Asia Tuesday Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index advanced 0.8% to 23,428 and China’s Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.7% to 2,876. In Japan the Nikkei 225 Index slid 0.3% to 10,141.
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Dry conditions may limit cotton production in the United States, the world’s largest exporter of the crop, next season.
Farmers will abandon more fields as dry weather compounds already below-normal moisture in growing areas from Texas to Alabama, Jo…
The investment world’s love affair with ETFs continued in 2010, as more than 1,000 funds managed assets of $940 billion. Here’s a review of the best and the worst performers, and a few reminders about how to use these investmen…