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The CRB Index: What Commodities Can Tell Investors About Stocks
Investment U (February 18th, 2009) Writes:
The CRB Index: What Commodities Can Tell Investors About Stocks
by Dr. Scott Brown, Advisory Panelist
In 1933 and 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was doing the same thing Obama is working to do today – reduce the corruption in our capital markets by increasing transparency and regulation.
Most investors know that the SEC and our key securities laws were enacted in those years…
Few know that in 1934, at the request of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Bureau of Labor Statistics began the computation of a daily commodity price index, using quotations for sensitive commodities.
The Commodities Research Bureau Index (the CRB Index) let’s you see what the commodity markets are doing, just like the S&P 500 does for stocks.
For many investors who focus on stocks, the thought of following a commodities index doesn’t intrigue. And it’s unfortunate…
The CRB Index – Very Different From the S&P 500
The CRB
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