Tag Archives: DBA

Does the world need another agriculture fund?

posted on April 17, 2012 at 8:00 am by Scott Martin

The launch of an all-new ETF focused on agricultural commodities has won its share of hoopla in the market press, but with a crowd of funds already jostling for subscriptions, is the U.S. Commodity Agricultural ETF (USAG, quote) unique enough?

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Soybean rally may hit a speed bump this morning

posted on April 10, 2012 at 8:00 am by Scott Martin

The USDA could give commodity traders an excuse to take profits in soybean contracts this morning — or push the recent bull run to new levels.

Commodities ETFs Food

State of grain: Putin putting pressure on prices

posted on March 29, 2012 at 3:00 pm by Scott Martin

Shifting consumption patterns and recovering harvests are giving Russian farmers more wheat and corn to sell overseas, and if Vladimir Putin is on the money, the final export numbers should help make up for drought conditions elsewhere.

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Jim Rogers ‘talking his book’, but his ETF no chart topper

posted on February 22, 2012 at 11:15 am by Jonathan Yates

Legendary investor Jim Rogers is legendarily short on equities and long on commodities, and the Rogers International Commodity Index is the embodiment of his ideas. Unfortunately, the Rogers International Agriculture Commodity ETF (RJA, quote) doesn’t quite live up to its billing.

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China is still buying a lot of corn, but are they hungry?

posted on February 10, 2012 at 6:58 am by Richard Rittorno

China’s grain output hit record highs in 2011, and senior officials vow that the country will continue its pace of grain imports at appropriate levels to meet its rapidly expanding hunger for foreign produce.

China Commodities ETFs Food

Deeper ports needed for U.S. exports; can railroads be far behind? (MGDDF, BAMXY, BRK-A, DBA, SEA)

posted on January 16, 2012 at 11:21 am by Jonathan Yates

Better shipping facilities in the United States are needed to meet the demand for American products in emerging market countries and other areas, according to George Will in a recent syndicated column in The Washington Post and other papers, “Deeper Ports should not have to wait a decade.”

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Corn is now too precious for ethanol subsidies (CORN, DBA, POT, CZZ)

posted on January 12, 2012 at 12:45 pm by Jonathan Yates

And they said it couldn’t be done: a $20 billion a year tax credit for ethanol has ended in the United States. Sometimes the American political system does work, even when losing the subsidy directly hurts Iowa farmers in an election year.

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Be ready for tomorrow’s agricultural report (DBA, POT, MOS, CORN)

posted on January 11, 2012 at 4:42 pm by Tim Seymour

Tomorrow they will be talking a lot about La Nina and whether China has leaned too far in the direction of corn to grow enough soy. The entire agricultural group could be in play depending on how the numbers stack up.

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Africa is huge opportunity for agricultural companies (MON, SYT, DBA)

posted on January 11, 2012 at 10:30 am by Jonathan Yates

Afirca’s emerging middle class presents a massive new marketplace for biotech companies such as Monsanto (MON, quote) and Syngenta (SYT, quote). The profit potential for these stocks has been detailed on previous articles on www.emergingmoney.com

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Bill Gross likes Asia and Vietnam is recovering fast (VNM, USO, RJA, DBA)

posted on December 13, 2011 at 8:40 am by Jonathan Yates

PIMCO head Bill Gross is encouraging investors to look at Asia, where countries such as Vietnam are starting to recover, with the exchange-traded fund, Market Vectors Vietnam (VNM, quote), up almost 4% for the week.

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