On April 25, 2022, right here on Seeking Alpha, I wrote Commodity Supercycles And The Role Of Luck. As it turns out, this was perhaps one of my most timely macro calls written on Seeking Alpha. Had ...

The stock market saw a spectacular bull run after the pandemic lows hit in 2020. Tech stocks, meme stocks and anything involving cryptocurrency surged higher on the backs of Fed support and stimulus ...

Futures are not Stocks – Don’t Treat Them the Same! Even in today’s digital age, the noisy, fast-moving trading pits can still be found around the world for buying and selling hundreds of commodities.

My previous column – “The Inflation Scare Does Not Match Reality” – drew a lot of pushback from readers who cited recent large price increases for a wide range of basic commodities, as a sign of ...

The stock market saw a spectacular bull run after the pandemic lows hit in 2020. Tech stocks, meme stocks and anything involving cryptocurrency surged higher on the backs of Fed support and stimulus ...

I concluded a July 22, 2025, Seeking Alpha article on the Harbor Commodity All-Weather Strategy ETF (HGER) with: HGER provides another choice for investors and traders seeking commodity exposure ...

Food and energy prices surged to near historic highs in recent years amid the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, which prompted major supply disruptions. This was accompanied by a sharp rise in the ...

President Donald Trump's auto and retaliatory tariffs on key U.S. trading partners are contributing to market volatility. Trump also recently noted he will impose 25% tariffs on imports from countries ...

This paper presents a comprehensive database of country-specific commodity price indices for 182 economies covering the period 1962-2018. For each country, the change in the international price of up ...

Many industries sell products that are essentially identical to those sold by competitors. These products are commodities -- they are interchangeable with products from other companies and compete for ...

A commodity is a raw material that is typically used as input for producing other goods or services. Commodities are typically produced uniformly, meaning a specific amount of a commodity produced ...