Commodities

I'm not a huge advocate for trading. But there's one trade that might be worth pulling the trigger on these days: the gold-platinum trade.

How a run-in at gun point with my neighbor relates to the impending fiscal cliff.

We write a lot here about gold and silver and how well those two metals have done in recent years. But another metal we rarely discuss has… Read more

I like gold because it's a risk-reducing, portfolio-diversifying asset. It's also been a strong-performing asset over the past decade – up nearly 400%.

Every time I write about today’s oil company, people unsubscribe by the hundreds. But I think you’d be foolish to ignore this investment.

Things looked pretty bleak for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR) two months ago. But after a strong earnings report in its fiscal fourth quarter, it appears the company… Read more

Ask yourself: what asset class typically outperforms savings deposits during inflation and high taxation. The answer is commodities.

Right now, gold is telling us one thing about stocks – namely that they’re getting cheaper by the year.

Grantham predicted bubbles in Japanese stocks in 1989 and U.S. stocks in 2000, and risk assets in 2007.

Now he has a new prediction.