Much of commodity trading amounts to speculation, not investing. Unpredictable factors like the weather, disease, and natural disasters can have huge effects on commodity prices in the short term. If you're looking to invest in a commodity for the long term, commodity stocks, mutual funds, and...
As molybdenum has a high melting point of 4,730 degrees Fahrenheit, the addition of just a small amount can strengthen steel and increase its resistance to corrosion, heat and rust. Outside of the construction industry, the oil and gas sector is another major consumer of the metal in the f...
How Have Major Commodities Stocks Performed Over the Last 5 Years? Commodities might be profitable investments, but it would be a stretch to call investing in commodities “safe”. Commodity prices can be extremely volatile. As an example, take a look at the five year crude oil price history...
Because petroleum is a hydrocarbon, burning it as gasoline, heating fuel, or feedstock to create plastics products has been implicated in climate change. A race has been on for more than a decade to replace petroleum with renewable sources of energy, such as solar ...
Most of us know about buying stocks. That’s when you buy shares of a company in hopes that your investment will increase in value along with the company. Bonds offer another way to invest in a company, or in a governmental body such as your local school system or the Federal Treasury....
and Global X Uranium , which invest in producers and suppliers of nuclear energy. Both portfolios hold less than two dozen stocks each, raising their risk profile considerably. NLR lost about 19 percent and URA dropped nearly 30 percent in the week following damage to the Fukushima Daiichi ...
Charles Pollock, a Massachusetts native shareholder of ten Farmer’s Loan & Trust Company stocks, took the company to court to cease paying taxes. It was decided on April 8th, 1895, that the Wilson-Gorman Act’s income taxation on property violated the Constitution. ...
Commodities are considered an alternative investment along with things like real estate that don’t trade in the conventional style of stocks and bonds. Within precious metals, however, there is a subcategory of alternative investments that are closer to collectibles than they are to investments. Bu...
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Water stocks are stocks of companies whose business is closely tied to irrigation, utilities, water treatment, or other water-related industries. One can invest in these by buying the stocks of individual companies, or by investing in a mutual fund orETF with high exposure to water stocks. The...