Editor's Note: This article was written by Richard Suttmeier, chief market strategist at ValuEngine.com, which is a fundamentally-based quant research firm in Princeton, New Jersey, that covers more

Following today’s inventory data -- as unleaded gasoline prices are off some 5% to $1.95 but remain near 52-week highs -- it's apparent that this market could be due for a big pullback as the s

It’s becoming common knowledge that commodity-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have some basic design flaws that not only affect their performance but also have an impact on the very futures

It looks like investors might soon be getting new options in ways to invest in commodities. Last week, Standard & Poor’s launched the S&P GSCI Crude Oil Covered Call Index in what&rsquo

There was a brief halt in United States Natural Gas Fund (UNG) on Tuesday as the creators of the fund had to run out to Costco to pick up some more shares -- or something like that.   

Back in July 2008, the financial media was attributing literally every intraday price move, in just about every US financial market that you could think of, to crude oil prices. Since then, crude oil

Equity markets had their biggest rally this year after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke outlined steps to fix the banking industry in a morning address. His remarks, delivered to the Counci

What a day it was for the market. Turnaround Tuesday definitely lived up to the hype.Citigroup (C) came out and said they had 2 profitable quarters through the first 3 months of this year; all the ba

The stock market is on a tear this morning on the heels of a statement by CEO Vikram Pandit that Citigroup (C) has a profit for the first 2 months of 2009. In a letter sent to employees Monday,

1) Now It's the Economists' TurnWe knew this was only a matter of time."The downturn exposes the decline of economic expertise," Newsweek observes in the March 16 issue. "Think of all