Released on 5/12/2011 8:30:00 AM For Apr, 2011 Prior Consensus Consensus Range Actual Retail Sales – M/M change 0.4 % 0.6 % 0.2 % to 1.2 % 0.5 % Retail Sales less autos – M/M change 0.8 % 0.6 % 0.2 % to 1.5 % 0.6 % Retail sales in April gained 0.5 percent, following a revised 0.9 percent increase in March. March was revised upward significantly from… read more
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Wheat called higher 15 to 17 cents higher due to weather and weaker dollar. Corn called higher 8 to 10 cents Soybeans called higher 6 to 8 cents… read more
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Released on 5/5/2011 7:00:00 AM Prior Consensus Actual change 0 bp 0 bp 0 bp Level 0.5 % 0.5 % 0.5 % Highlights Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee left its key interest rate at 0.5 percent unchanged… read more
Coffee Rises to 14-Year High-Futures Trading, Commodity Trading, Trading news, Economic News, Futures and Commodity brokerage
Rainfall in Colombia; the world’s second-largest producer of arabica beans may hurt crops. Coffee plantations are being damaged by landslides and rains.… read more
Swing Trading Strategies – S&P confirms reaction swing sell. [chart]
The S&P is turning bearish. This is a market I have been watching ever since it failed to trade above the prior swing high (1337.75 posted on February 18, 2011) on the April 5th test. The market rolled over and formed a bearish reaction swing between April 13, 2011 and April 15, 2011. Today’s price… read more
Retail sales increase for the ninth consecutive gain.
Released on 4/13/2011 8:30:00 AM For Mar, 2011 Prior Consensus Consensus Range Actual Retail Sales – M/M change 1.0 % 0.5 % 0.0 % to 1.2 % 0.4 % Retail Sales less autos – M/M change 0.7 % 0.7 % 0.2 % to 1.8 % 0.8 % Market Consensus Before Announcement Retail sales in February surged 1.0 percent, following a 0.7 percent boost in January and a 0.6 percent… read more
Swing Trading Strategies – Time to raise the stops on long Crude oil. [chart]
TMV Swing Trading Report – Long May Crude oil @ 109.05 – Current price @ 109.50 – Raise the stop loss to 108.25. … read more
Market News – Jobless claims drop last week
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, a sign that layoffs are dropping and employers may be hiring more workers. The Labor Department says the number of people seeking benefits dropped 10,000 to 382,000 in the week ending April 2. That’s the third drop in four weeks. The four-week average of applications, a less… read more
Grains news – Chinese rate hike to pressure soybeans
CHICAGO, April 5 (Reuters) – Soybean futures on the Chicago Board of Trade were expected to open down 8 to 10 cents a bushel Tuesday, pressured by news China was raising benchmark deposit and lending rates in an attempt to cool inflation. Also weighing on prices is the advancing harvest of what is expected to… read more
USDA Prospective Planting report summary
CHICAGO (Dow Jones)–The following table is provided as a service to Dow Jones Newswires subscribers in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s prospective plantings and quarterly grain stocks reports. The reports were released Thursday morning. Estimates are in millions of acres for 2011 U.S. prospective plantings and billions of bushels for grain stocks as of March 1. Pospective… read more