Author: Dian Chu

By: Bob van der Valk Consumers are once again being told with gas price stories we see on TV and read in newspapers gas prices are too high and much worse now than they have been in the past. But gasoline consumers have short...

By Ilene Just two weeks ago, the financial media was buzzing about the U.S. Dollar’s steep decline and surging prices in commodities and precious metals. Last week, the Dollar bounced, trading in a range from 74.4 to 75.8,...

By Andrew Butter A Bank Repossession (REO) is the final stage of the foreclosure process that typically requires three foreclosure notices in USA. The REO is the point at which the bank throws you out on the street; but when the...

By EconMatters The Reuters Jefferies CRB Index is down 8% so far in May with almost every single commodity in the index registering red. Even the ongoing geopolitical tension in the Middle East and North Africa has not been...

By Charles Rotblut, CFA The recent plunge in silver prices provides lessons for all investors, regardless of whether you invest in commodities or not. As I started writing this on Thursday morning May 12, iShares Silver Trust...

By Commodities Now The prices for many commodities suffered the worst week in recent memory at the start of May.  Oil prices dipped below $100 per barrel, gold fell below $1,500 an ounce and silver gave back much...

By Ilene Danny Schechter at Al Jazeera interviews Philip R. Davis, founder of Phil’s Stock World, about excessive speculation in the oil markets. Speculators and free market believers may argue that they are...