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Daily S&P Report

By PFG Best - January 31, 2012

Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 3:21 PM E Mini S&P settles 1308.00 down 1.00 Stock futures suffered a slight decline on Tuesday after weaker than expected economic data led traders [...]


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Horror At The Pump

By PFG Best - January 31, 2012

The Energy Report for Tuesday, January 31st 2012 By Phil Flynn A gas price horror story is evident at pumps across America as the price, according to the Energy Information [...]


Mato Grosso and Goias Account for 80% of Rust Cases in Brazil

By Michael Cordonnier - January 31, 2012

The wet weather in Mato Grosso and Goias over the last several weeks has been ideal for the spread of soybean rust. Currently there are 139 cases of rust confirmed [...]


New Higher Yielding Rubber Tree Varieties Released in Brazil

By Michael Cordonnier - January 31, 2012

Researchers in Brazil have released several new varieties of rubber trees that start producing latex in five years after planting instead of the normal 7 years. The new varieties not [...]


Europe’s Debt Undermines Confidence

By Paul Ebeling - January 31, 2012

  Europe’s fiscal readjustment may cause Global recession A readjustment of public spending in Europe could contribute to an economic slowdown and even cause a recession in the world economy, [...]


‘Currency Wars’ hotting up

By goldmoney.com - January 31, 2012

  Gold and silver prices paused for breath yesterday following their price breakouts last week. Gold for April delivery at the New York Comex settled down 0.1% at $1,734.40 per [...]


Grains Analysis

By PFG Best - January 31, 2012

USDA PREP After seven weeks with consecutively higher openings, we opened lower today. So what’s up? Rain! Tuesday night into Wednesday has Argentina’s key growing areas with 1 to 3 [...]


Mike Daly Gold Report

By PFG Best - January 31, 2012

Monday, January 30, 2012 at 1:56 PM Gold Settles $1.00 Lower … ($1734.40) Today’s April Gold Futures contract covered a subdued $24.00 range. The trading session traded as high as [...]


What can 2011 tell us about the 2012 cattle market?

By Dillon Feuz - January 31, 2012

In 2011, record high beef, fed cattle, feeder cattle and calf prices were realized.  All of those records may be broken again in 2012.  Now that I have your attention, [...]


Dry weather pulls down global soybean output propects

By Commodity Online Crops and Weather News - January 31, 2012

On the back of dry weather due to La Nina conditions, global soybean output for 2011-12 is likely to decline further from the earlier predictions, according to Rabobank report.