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One of the credible ways to find out how U.S. consumers are behaving amid all the noise about recession is through the performance of companies that sell items that we consume every day. In recent...

Away from the madness in crude oil and intrigue in gold, another commodity has been having a drama of its own over the past month. Raw sugar, which fell to a near one-year low just four weeks ago, has...

The S&P 500 is likely to make a quick upswing before continuing its decline, as U.S. data shows signs of joining the global slowdown. Futures contracts for the S&P today opened above...

Crude oil prices appear to have recovered after the attack on Saudia Arabia oil installations caused a spike mid-September. Immediately following the strike just two and a half weeks ago, Brent crude...

The trend is your friend, we often hear. And the trend doesn’t advocate being bullish on natural gas now, especially in a market plummeting with the velocity of a space shuttle returning to...

After this year’s rush—driven by recession fears—to buy safe, income producing stocks, there aren’t many attractive high-yielding opportunities available right now in the...

Treasury spreads and yield curves have become the most common ways to tell a potential recession now. But not too long ago, there was another instrument that traders relied on for this: copper. Used...

It’s been quite a tumultuous year for new listings on the market. While some of the most anticipated IPOs— Uber Technologies Inc (NYSE:UBER) and LYFT Inc (NASDAQ:LYFT)—failed...

After months of quiet, palladium is erupting into record highs again, giving profit-chasing precious metals investors an outlet just as gold collapses from the exhaustion of a five-month long...

Two weeks ago, this column cautioned that if you were rushing to add to oil’s geopolitical premium in the aftermath of the Saudi attack, it was good to remember there were huge risks on both...

After a powerful rally over the past year, America’s two biggest food stocks—Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) and McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD)—are showing some signs of peaking. Over the past...

There is a deja-vu feeling now in gold—like a seen-it, done-it kind of thing. The longs in the market are kind of resigned to the notion that both gold futures and bullion will remain trapped in...

Oil is falling again today, on its third consecutive day of losses, but the slide isn't likely to last long — indeed the technicals are suggesting the price could be heading for a dead cat...

With just two sessions left to the best September in seven years for U.S. natural gas, some are wondering if the rest of the year will continue to see strong enough prices to flip a market that, to...

Following the Sep. 14 attack on Saudi oil infrastructure, we saw the oil market jump on Monday. Since then, prices have been returning to pre-attack levels. While a chorus of talking heads can be...

In a world where Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is killing its competitors, it’s tough to find another consumer company which has so consistently exceeded expectations. The sportswear giant, Nike ...