ETRACS Bloomberg Commodit... (DJCB)

•Stocks fall and oil retreats. •Natural gas corrected from a new high for the year.

Commodity finance is critical for producers and traders. The banks are pulling back.

The Fed’s “inflation running hot” memo has created a pivotal point in the market rally, and the resulting asset price inflation is exactly what the Fed intended.

The rise in prices highlighted by the four-month rally in our Materials Price Index does indicate the worst of the recession globally is over.

The winter is coming fast- the offseason for meats and gasoline. The withdrawal season for natural gas is on the horizon.

Markets chose to latch onto strong demand data coming out of China early in the week, with our Materials Price Index (MPI) pushing 1.8% higher.

Commodity prices, as measured by our Materials Price Index (MPI), rose 4.4% last week in one of the largest gains in the 24-year history of our index.

Our Materials Price Index fell 0.1% last week, pausing after an 11-week rally dating back to late April.

Year-to-date performance through last Friday of several different commodities. Fitting for a year with a pandemic ravaging the globe, vitamin C is in demand as orange juice is actually the top perform...

Our Materials Price Index (MPI) rose another 3.0% last week, the fourth time in the past five weeks that it has posted a gain of three percent or more. Since hi