The market last week witnessed the prices of 76 share items decrease, 24 share items increase, and 7 share items stabilized in prices. The total trading value reached VND2,616bil, or VND523bil for every trading session, a sharp decrease compared to the level of VND1tril/trading session seen earlier this year. Explaining the sharp price decreases in the last consecutive weeks, analysts said that the market was in the periodic time of falling after it was too hot several months ago. In the...

Are we set for $80 crude? No hurricanes, several key refineries back online this weekend and improving supply side information out of Nigeria, and yet we see fresh highs? If the market doesn t snap back below $68 ASAP the bear argument here might be out the window and I will be forced to see a doctor about getting this foot out of my mouth. Are we set for $80 crude? No hurricanes, several key refineries back online this weekend and improving supply side information out of Nigeria, and yet...

The deep in the money call spreads or an arbitrage position of long the future and way out of money put and short a deep in the money call option can provide handsome profit. Crude oil, sugar, cocoa, and cotton futures are in raging bull markets. This is another indication that the economy is stagnating and possibly headed right into deep recession. Cotton built a base for a many years. The deep in the money call spreads or an arbitrage position of long the future and way out of money put...

The bulk of crop subsidies go to growers of corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton and other commodity crops in the Midwest and South, they say, leaving out Garden State fruit and vegetable growers. The state's congressional delegation is part of a broad effort to overhaul the way food is grown by promoting locally harvested produce, boost investment in organic agriculture, prevent Congress from sending the majority of grower subsidies to other states and ramp up land conservation spending. Find...

After serving in the Army, Walker returned to the family farm where he and his twin made farming their life's work. They were crop farmers, growing mainly corn and cotton. He was preceded in death by seven brothers, including his twin, Dillard, who died in 2004. My daddy always fussed on him that he put more stems and leaves in the bag than cotton. brewer@htimes.com Willard Walker and twin brother spent life on farm. Ralph Gullion recalled watching Walker and his twin brother pick cotton...