Commodities
Learn how commodity investing -- in metals, energy and agricultural crops -- can help enhance portfolio performance and diversify risk.
Morningstar sounds inflation alarm
By Gil WeinreichThe firm says labor shortages and an economy quickly rising to full capacity can quickly lead to a breakout of recovery-killing inflation.
January 12, 2015
Commodities Drop to 12-Year Low as Oil Slumps Amid Global GlutOil prices are tumbling, but there's even more to the commodity story.
December 22, 2014
Commodities: More Pain Ahead in 2015The sharp drop in oil and rise in the dollar are harbingers of weakness for the asset class, experts say.
December 22, 2014
Commodities Leave Sour TasteIn terms of raw performance, no asset class has been more miserable than commodities.Over the past five years, the GreenHaven Continuous Commodities Fund…
October 17, 2014
Top Portfolio Products: BlackRock Launches Commodities ETFVident introduces a bond ETF, Wolf Hedge adds global fund, and Allianz rolls out a new fixed indexed annuity.
September 29, 2014
Coal: Energetic ResultsNatural Resource Partners (NRP) is a master limited partnership headquartered in Houston, with its operations headquarters in Huntington, W. Va. NRP is principally engaged in the business of owning and managing mineral reserve properties. NRP primarily owns coal, aggregate, and oil & gas reserves across the United States that generate...
July 06, 2014
Why It’s Time to Explore the Stocks-Commodities DynamicWhile equities are performing well, commodities are doing even better. Advisors who ignore commodity ETFs are making a big mistake, Ron DeLegge says.
April 28, 2014
The Case for CommoditiesThe song “Physical” was a 1981 hit by Olivia Newton-John and it conjures up the yearning that some investors have for hard or physical assets.…