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Grains futures traded mixed Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade.Wheat for December delivery rose 5.75 cents to $8.7825 a bushel; December corn slipped 0.25 cent to $7.6125 a bushel; December oats were …

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Grains futures mixed, livestock prices mostly fall

The cost of home heating oil in Maine has inched up by a penny in the past week to an average of $3.76 per gallon.The Governor’s Energy Office says Monday’s price was 25 cents a gallon higher than a year …

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Heating oil prices inch up in Maine

Shares of coal companies got a boost Monday after Peabody Energy Corp. reported a steep drop in third-quarter profit, but said that there are signs that the global coal market is stabilizing.St. Louis-based …

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Sector Snap: Coal

Germany’s central bank has failed to properly oversee the country’s massive gold reserves, which have been stored abroad since the Cold War in case of a Soviet invasion, independent auditors say.The central …

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Unease about Germany’s unchecked gold reserves

Shares of some top silver companies are up at 1 p.m.:Hecla Mining Co. rose $.08 or 1.3 percent, to $6.59.Pan American Silver Corp. rose $.73 or 3.4 percent, to $21.90.Silver Standard Resources Inc. rose …

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Midday Glance: Silver companies

Shares of some top gold companies are up at 1 p.m.:Barrick Gold Corp. rose $.47 or 1.2 percent, to $39.25.Gold Fields rose $.14 or 1.2 percent, to $12.20.GoldCorp. rose $.47 or 1.1 percent, to $43.76.Newmont …

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Midday Glance: Gold companies

Shares of some top coal companies are up at 1 p.m.:Arch Coal rose $.57 or 7.2 percent, to $8.48.Consol Energy Inc. rose $1.31 or 3.7 percent, to $36.52.Peabody Energy rose $2.95 or 11.4 percent, to $28.84….

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Midday Glance: Coal companies

U.S. stock market futures are gaining narrowly after Friday’s massive selloff, despite mixed quarterly reports from some top companies.Dow Jones futures are up 17 points at 13,269. S&P 500 futures have ..

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US stock futures gain after Friday’s selloff

Stock index futures pointed to a slightly higher open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 rising 0.3 to 0.4 percent. Wall Street is likely to take its …

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Stock index futures edge higher, earnings in focus

Mortgage insurer MGIC Investment surged last week with strong housing numbers, and one trader is looking for more gains.optionMONSTER’s Heat Seeker tracking systems detected the purchase of 1,500 January …

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Bulls hope to build on gains in MGIC

Speculative traders on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange significantly pared their overall anti-EUR wager, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed on Friday. Traders decreased their open short EUR position by 25% from a week earlier to reach a net of $8.6 billion as of Tuesday. …

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Speculators Covering Their EUR Shorts, Adding To Anti-USD Bets

Pickup trucks lined a stretch of gravel road where 150 farmers mingled between 7-foot tall cornstalks and shimmering soybeans to see which of their wealthy brethren would bid on a swath of Iowa’s richest cropland. This was a farm — table-flat and 314 acres — so coveted that it drew three times the..

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Iowa Farms Minting Millionaires as Rich-Poor Gap Widens

The UK is still on course for its slowest recovery in a century despite official figures set to confirm the nation has pulled out of a double-dip recession this week, experts warned today. Initial estimates for the three months to September, to be published on Thursday, are likely to show a 0.6 p…

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UK recovery slowest in a century

1. Managing the risk of ruin. Do not risk so much on any one trade that 10 losing trades in a row will destroy your account.

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7 Things You Must Do to Win at Trading

At the time of writing the EU summit was coming to an end in Brussels and there had been no showpiece event like an aid request for Spain. The chief outcome has been an agreement with Europe’s leaders that the ECB will eventually be the single body responsible for all banking supervision in the..

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The Week Ahead–Week of October 21st, 2012

The US economic data clearly improved last week. This was the third week in a row with mostly better than expected data, and suggests some recent pickup in economic activity. The week started off with a strong retail sales report for September.

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Summary for Week Ending Oct 19th

Prime Minister Mario Monti said on Saturday he expected it would only be a few more months before signs of recovery start to emerge in the recession-hit Italian economy. Addressing an agriculture conference in northern Italy, Monti spoke of “a few months, just a few months I hope that we have lef..

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Monti expects to see Italy recovery signs within months

Everyone knows that when it comes to US currency in circulation, the $2 and the $50 bills are rapidly approaching numismatic status due to either the government’s unwillingness to print them in sufficient amounts or the general public’s unwillingness to accept them as legal Federal Reserve Note…

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We Don’t Want Your Steenkin’ $1, $5, And $10 Dollar Bills

Our big picture view is that the US dollar is carving out an important bottom, after selling off in Q3 as policy makers moved to reduce the extreme tail risks. The position adjustment that that inspired among appears to have largely run its course.

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FX Positioning and Technical Outlook: Dollar Still Carving out a Bottom