Forbes: Don’t Expect Stocks To Save You From Inflation

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Even in the long run, it's a myth. Read more here.

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Forbes: “Solid Growth Prospects Alongside A Very Robust Labor Market” DB Says

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Time for some good news.

The outlook for Main Street and Wall Street looks good, at least according to a recent report from Deutsche Bank. Read more here.

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Forbes: Investors Pull $244 Billion From Mutual Funds As Market Slides: Report

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

If you buy into Warren Buffet’s famous maxim “ be greedy when others are fearful,” then now is the time to act. Read more here.

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Forbes: 3 Reasons Elizabeth Warren’s Price Gouging War Doesn’t Make Sense

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

In fact, the whole effort is nonsensical, backwards, and self-defeating, least from an economics viewpoint. Read more here.

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Barron's: Lower Prices Are Brewing for Coffee. Thank the Weather Forecast.

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Relief is at hand for coffee lovers who have been blighted by soaring prices for the past year or so. For that, they can thank favorable weather in South America and lower-than-expected demand growth.

“In the absence of a weather event, prices are likely to trend down,” says Carlos Mera, the head of agricultural commodities market research at Rabobank in London. Read more here.

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CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor: #Markets: Wheat spikes; & What is to be done?

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Listen here.

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Barron's: An Epic Wheat Rally Could Soon End. Here’s How to Play It.

By SIMON CONSTABLE

The scorching-hot wheat market looks set for a cool-down. A combination of drought, war, and a wheat export ban in India has sent prices for the grain sky high. But they might now be reaching the end of what has been an epic rally, experts say.

“The market is so overbought right now,” says Jim Roemer, agricultural expert and author of the Weather Wealth newsletter. “The market squeeze should begin to end in June or July.” Read more here.

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