Enjoying your morning cup of coffee? Would you enjoy it as much if it cost you two bits more? How about a dollar more?
Just the other day, Justice wrote to you as to how wheat futures seemed to be picking up the pace a bit. But that's not the only commodity that's kicking it these days. Coffee beans have been on a real "caffeine jag," gaining some 79% in 2010, with about 9% of that coming on in the last week or so.

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With raw goods costs rising like that, J.M. Smucker Co. (SJM:NYSE) has been forced to raise prices 9% on some of its popular U.S. brands, including Folgers, Millstone and Dunkin' Donuts. This hike follows close on the heels of a 4% increase last May. Tot it all up and your average mug of steaming java is up about 13% over the past few months.
Read more and comment ...As you know from watching Viral Investing: Turning Market Chaos Into Cash, I have been predicting a sizable downturn in American top stocks for 2011. The depressants are manifold, not the least of which is the onset of the next leg of the "Great Recession" that began in 2007.
But more important than any singular piece of information is the way in which investors understand and act on available data. And the rate and fashion of memetic uptake is cyclic and predictable.
WaveStrength attempts to combine both sides of the equation. It establishes large groups of investors' predisposing cyclic framework, and then tracks the pool of existing information as it enters that framework.
Right now, the central bundle of memes that I have been tracking could be labeled as "Investors' Lost Faith." The core idea is that most every investor out there has known for months that this last bullish cycle would end in the same fashion as the previous two.
However, anticipation of a third massive crash has accelerated the rate at which we would arrive at the next crisis. Indeed, I believe that we are already past that critical point.
Read more and comment ...In 1940, Soviet geologist Yu. S. Jelubovsky discovered an untapped oil field in Mongolia.
It wasn't a world-changing find, but it meant the Russians were the first on the scene of what could become the world's next massive oil resource...
So what did the Russians do?
They immediately moved in and negotiated a Russian-favored pact with the naïve Mongols known as the MongolNeft trust.
What Mongolia thought was going to hand them all the oil they could ever use ended up providing them with a mere 20% of the petroleum they needed for daily operations.
The rest went to Mother Russia.
Read more and comment ...Top Stocks For 2011 No.1 From Kelley Wright : (Altria )
Read more and comment ...Buying a stock on the NYSE is relatively easy. Nine times out of 10, you can put in a market order that will be immediately filled right at the price you want. But bulletin board issues and some of the thinner micro-caps on the NASDAQ and Amex can be a completely different animal.
When I find a penny stock that fits my buying criteria, I first look to see how it trades. If I feel the stock has enough regular trading volume, I know I should have no problem picking up shares on the open market at a favorable price. But if the stock is thinly traded, I never try to buy shares without using a limit order.
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