11/09/2009 01:41PM
Finally some reprieve. October proved friendly to the fed market which showed signs of life during the month.
11/04/2009 09:55AM
Drip…drip…drip: the fall of dropping water wears away the stone. So it goes with shaping public attitude and policy. If you repeat something often enough it must be true (not!), thus politicians are always coached to stay “on message."
10/07/2009 11:07AM
During the past several months AgSight has focused on forthcoming ETF (exchange-traded funds) regulation by the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission).
10/07/2009 07:27AM
Have you ever fed a large group of hungry cows in the mud? If so, you know how futile that can seem.
09/08/2009 07:45AM
Certain success is hard to come by in this operating environment. While August finished on a favorable note, follow-through stumbled prior to Labor Day.
08/06/2009 09:55AM
“…déjà vu all over again”. Just a little over a year ago I initiated some coverage surrounding index funds in the Monthly Market Profile. It’s a very thorny issue and it deserved some extended exposure.Little did I know that the issue would blow up all again. Moreover, the controversy
08/03/2009 03:04PM
July’s market was neither systematic nor necessarily orderly with lots of tug and pull week-by-week.But don’t get too caught up in the weekly distractions, what really matters is the larger assessment.The month opened with a surprising move to the upside with cattle feeders earning $82-3.
07/06/2009 02:36PM
Mid-year always serves as an opportune time to take inventory of the previous six months; that’s especially true in 2009 amidst current economic uncertainty.I noted in January’s Monthly Market Profile that, “The coming year will likely prove to be…marked by variations on [last year’s] themes.Namely,
07/06/2009 02:15PM
Cattle feeders fully celebrated this year’s Fourth of July.The month began on a sweet note and was good to cattle feeders; the week transitioning from June to July brought about several victories to relish.Any semblance of triumph has been tough to come by in recent months; recall that I opened June