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We at Indiana Grain have kept a close eye on cotton.

Cotton rose to the highest price in almost two weeks after a report showed a surge in U.S. exports, signaling a possible return of global demand.

Exports doubled from the previous week to 263,200 running bales in the week through March 11, 43 percent higher than the average of the previous four weeks, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The government last week predicted a 3.

Orange juice futures contracts were at their lowest point in three weeks as the dollar rose against other currencies.

The stronger dollar also hurt energy prices Thursday. Grains and metals prices were mixed.

A stronger dollar makes commodities

Goldman Sachs says corn looks the best short-term bet for Chicago investors, although weaker soybean prices offer the chance to exploit the oilseed's bullish long-term prospects.

The world corn market will tighten in 2009-10 despite raised forecas

We at Indiana Grain took notice of our friend Greg Burns of the Chicago Tribune this week who speculated that a merger may be in the cards for Chicago's "cousins," CME Group and the CBOE.

"Putting years of legal wrangling behind them, CME Group In

Grain prices rose Wednesday amid speculation that wet, cooler weather could slow spring planting across much of the country.

Other factors that benefited commodities across the board included a weaker dollar and the rising stock market.

It was

U.S. farmers, encouraged by lower fertilizer costs, will plant more acres to corn this spring than a year ago, while soy seedings will remain around the same as in 2009, grain analysts told the Reuters Food and Agriculture Summit in Chicago on Tuesda

In the details of the financial reform legislation introduced this week are fundamental changes to the Federal Reserve that would shift power from the regional Fed banks around the country and concentrate it in Washington and New York.

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Why have commodity prices been relatively weak as of late? Paradoxically, the answer can be found in Chinese inflation.

You may have noticed something strange lately. Though the bulls have been stampeding, commodities just haven’t been getting t

ETF Securities will list 14 commodity exchange-traded funds on the Tokyo Stock Exchange this week -- the largest-ever such launch for Asia -- and based on the performance of their counterparts in Japan and elsewhere, they'll likely be well received.

The US Federal Reserve was widely expected to keep its key lending rate at virtually zero percent Tuesday as financial markets look for signals of future monetary policy tightening.

Central bank chief Ben Bernanke chairs the one-day session of the

Hedge funds that trade currencies are taking hits from politicians casting them as speculators out to sink the euro and push Greece into insolvency.

They are also losing money.

Macro funds fell 1 percent in the first two months of the year, ac

We at Indiana Grain read an interesting piece in Business Week covering how cattle prices in Australia, the world’s second-largest beef exporter, gained to the highest in 17 months after wet weather and floods reduced livestock supply in Queensland

On Friday, stocks rose yet again, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to the highest level since October 2008, as Citigroup Inc. led a bank rally and investors speculated that health-care reform will be harder to pass.

S&P futures have close

You may have noticed that we at Indiana Grain have been writing about the CME Group a lot lately. But, conversely, you may have also noticed that our friends at CME have been making a lot of headlines.

Two of the world's biggest derivatives exchan

Ethanol, the commodity that cost Bill Gates more than $44 million the last time prices collapsed, is poised to rally as much as 20 percent as the fastest drop since 2008 spurs demand.

Falling corn prices and record ethanol supplies have driven the

Google is reportedly close to shutting down its search business in China. According to the Financial Times, executives of the search engine have apparently finalized plans to orchestrate an orderly closure of google.cn.

The report quoted a company

Economist and oil analyst Philip Verleger has a dire forecast regarding proposed limits on energy trading: “Great harm to the American economy will result from these unenlightened actions.”

That’s just one of the highlights from the text of

We at Indiana Grain will be curious to see what Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has to say today.

The Justice Department began an antitrust investigation of the seed industry last year, with an apparent focus on Monsanto, which controls much of

The last major private exchange left in the U.S., the Chicago Board Options Exchange, filed for an initial public offering of up to $300 million Thursday.

The CBOE plans to convert from a member-owned organization to a publicly traded corporation

JPMorgan Chase is the king of the hedge fund castle, at least in terms of heft, according to a new ranking by Pensions and Investments magazine.

The bank’s two hedge fund units, JPMorgan Asset Management and Highbridge Capital Management, came o