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MONDAY OUTLOOK: THE AG MARKET EVOLUTION
There’s a nice profile of CME Group’s 165 year-old agricultural markets from Modern Farmer this week. The article focuses on how our ag markets have evolved and remained important as markets and...
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MONDAY OUTLOOK: FOCUS ON GROWTH
The early focus of 2014 in the U.S. seems to be on growth. CME Group chief economist Blu Putnam has written about the positive signs signaling the best performance in the U.S. economy since the...
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MONDAY OUTLOOK: 2013 WAS THE YEAR FOR DERIVATIVES
2013 was officially a bounce-back year for derivatives trading across the globe. The World Federation of Exchanges and the Futures Industry Association both released today their surveys of total...
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MONDAY OUTLOOK: NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS WEEK
This week we’re going to see the new monthly reports on retail sales, inflation, industrial production and housing starts. According to a Bloomberg survey, U.S. consumer prices most likely picked up...
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MONDAY OUTLOOK: YELLEN SHARES HER WISDOM WITH NEW GRADUATES
Several Federal Reserve Bank Presidents are speaking this week around the country, but none will receive the attention of Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s speech Wednesday, a commencement address to the New...
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MONDAY OUTLOOK: HOLIDAY WEEK AHEAD
A short holiday week for U.S. markets is not without some major data releases that have already begun to impact futures markets. The USDA today released their June grain stocks and annual acreage...
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MONDAY OUTLOOK: A LOOK AT FOOD INFLATION
As the Fed looks to inflation as a major indicator on when to raise the target federal funds rate, they may include recent food inflation in their consideration. Blu Putnam describes why here. By...
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MONDAY OUTLOOK: COULD THE FEDERAL FUNDS RATE CHANGE SOON?
Heading into a post-jobs report, post-FOMC meeting week, eyes have turned to when the Federal Reserve will raise the benchmark federal funds rate. While the FOMC decided to leave rates unchanged at...
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MONDAY OUTLOOK: Grain Stocks & End of the Quarter
The start of a new quarter might be reason enough to watch markets closely this week, but it’s also another big few days ahead for data releases. Tuesday, the USDA releases its quarterly grain stocks...
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Monday Outlook: Focus on the Fed
The Fed is in focus again this week. Ten speeches by Fed bank presidents and governors surround Wednesday’s FOMC minutes release. The big question, of course, is when will the Fed decide to raise...
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MARKET UPDATE: AFTERSHOCK
A lot of the action we’ve seen in bonds and stock with price and volatility have been aftershocks from the large market move we saw last week. Jack urges investors to keep a close eye on earnings...
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MARKET UPDATE: IT’S ALL ABOUT THE E’s
There are three main E’s that are creating a volatile time in the marketplace: Earnings, Energy and the Election. Jack breaks down each subject and discusses how it’s effecting the markets.
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MONDAY OUTLOOK: WASDE REPORT
Today was the much-watched USDA crop production and World Agricultural Supply & Demand Estimates report and they surprised investors a bit by trimming the forecast for the record-breaking harvest...
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MONDAY OUTLOOK: FALLING OIL PRICES IMPACT GEOPOLITICS
There’s an unemployment report this week, which is sure to launch some early December views on what markets and Fed policy hold for 2015. Keep an eye on market expectations for a Fed rate move here....
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MONDAY OUTLOOK: CONSIDERABLE TIME FOR FED FUNDS RATE
The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee meets this week for the final time this year, beginning Tuesday. Once again, the Federal Funds rate will be closely watched by participants in...
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Monday Outlook: Looking at Case-Shiller Index
It’s the end of the year, and with that comes some of the year’s final major economic reports and plenty of top 5 and top 10 lists (We’ll have our top posts of the year published later this week)....
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MONDAY OUTLOOK: YELLEN MONETARY POLICY TESTIMONY
This week, Janet Yellen will be giving her semi-annual monetary policy testimony to the House Financial Services Committee as well as the Senate Banking Committee in Washington. We’ll also see...
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MONDAY OUTLOOK: WILL THE FED RAISE RATES?
According to CME Group’s Fed Watch tool, views of market participants are split on when the Fed will raise interest rates, with many predicting a small increase at its June meeting. FOMC minutes are...
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INFOGRAPHIC: THE WORLD’S GROWING TASTE FOR CHOCOLATE
It’s no question that the world has a love affair with chocolate and the proof is in the €14.7 billion cocoa industry. Over the last hundred years, the industry has seen steady growth and by the...
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WEEKLY OUTLOOK: JOBS REPORT & FED SPEAKERS
It’s a jobs report week, and all eyes will be on the latest numbers following the Federal Reserve’s inaction on rate hikes at their September meeting. Speaking of the Fed, there are 11 speeches...
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