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From Bloomberg: Copper for delivery in December added 7.8 cents, or 2.1 percent, to $3.875 a pound at 8:30 a.m. on the Comex in New York. Pr...

From Agrimoney.com: Indeed, many Chinese crops set new records on Monday, including cotton , which soared 5.0% on the Zhengzhou to the maxi...

From the Beige Book: Lending activity was stable at low levels across most Districts, but there were some reports that demand picked up sli...

As the three charts below show, there was little movement in the equity, bond or dollar market on Friday. Treasuries tried to rally about r...

It's that time of the week. Don't think about the economy or the market for the next few days. We'll be back on Monday AM. Unt...

- by New Deal democrat This week's column comes with a seasonally appropriate soundtrack that you can enjoy while you read the stats: Mo...

Gold is still in a strong uptrend (A). Along the way, prices have consolidated in downward sloping pennant patterns (B, C and D) -- all sta...

From the Beige Book: Manufacturing activity continued to expand, with production and new orders rising across most Districts. ..... Manufact...

Equity prices gapped higher at the open (a) and then rallied, although by the time they got to point (b) they were clearly over-extended (c)...

From the Conference Board: Says Ataman Ozyildirim, economist at The Conference Board: “The LEI remains on a general upward trend, but it is...

From the Beige Book: Retail spending was flat to moderately positive in most Districts, with the exception of the Richmond and Atlanta Dist...

The Fed released the Beige Book earlier this week . It essentially says we're in for more of the same -- slow growth. Reports from the ...

Yesterday, stock prices opened higher (a) and rallied for most of the morning (b) using the EMA as technical support. Prices consolidated g...