Invest in these commodity ETFs for a potential respite from high inflation. Investors looking for inflation protection can buy physically backed or futures-based commodity exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, that track the price of goods like precious metals, livestock, oil, natural gas and grains. During times of inflation, these ETFs can outperform as prices of their underlying commodities increase. Here are eight of the…
These seven commodity stocks offer at least 3% dividend yields. Throughout the 2010s, commodities were left for dead. The great Chinese super-cycle ended, and as demand for copper, steel and other building essentials diminished, the whole commodity space went into an extended hibernation. By about 2019, most commodity stocks barely showed a pulse. But things have changed. The pandemic and…
Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders joins Elijah K Johnson from Liberty and Finance to talk about the most recent price actions and commodities during the war. Looking at quarterly charts, we can see that gold is pointing to a lot higher prices because of the war. Silver is quite the beast, though it typically lags a little bit then…
Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders discusses gold’s price direction and precious metals in general with David Lin, anchor for Kitco News. It appears that we are coming into a pretty major super cycle in precious metals, which started back in 2019 – this is about a 5-year cycle for gold. Gold had a very strong rally over the past…
While fixed income investing tends to be associated with retirees (and, indeed, retired investors are one of three investor profiles that the author of today’s article believes should consider devoting a significant part of their portfolios to fixed income), it’s an investing strategy anyone can benefit from, with the author noting that “The low-risk, predictable nature of this investment can…