• Should investors bet on seasonality?
• How contango has eaten into returns
• Why more supply has meant less contango

Real-time Monetary Inflation (last 12 months): 2.3%

Earlier this week ("Add Soft Wheat To Your Hard Asset List"), we noted bottoming action and bullish seasonality in Chicago wheat futures bolstering the price of the iPath Dow Jones-UBS Grains Subindex Total Return ETN (NYSE Arca: JJG).

• What's behind the proposal?
• How the SDR's currency basket has changed
• Why switching to the SDR won't work

I'm so disappointed in Colin McCabe. You remember McCabe, don't you? He's the supposed editor of the ubiquitous Elite Stock Report we wrote about in "A Golden Future In Your Mailbox."

This week's market activity provided little reason for the Fed to withdraw its accommodation. A decline in Treasury yields pretty fairly well matched the uptick in commodity prices.

• Will Greece doom the euro?
• Why you should dump dollar-denominated gold
• Is inflation or deflation in store?

In contrast to the yearly trend in producer prices, U.S. consumer prices rose at a slightly lower rate in January. Over the 12 months ending in January, the Consumer Price Index increased at a 2.6 percent rate, a tenth of a percent lower than the rate booked in December. Wholesale prices, measured by the Producer Price Index for Finished Goods, stepped up by a tenth of a percent, at 4.6 percent rate.

• What's behind the Baltic Dry's 2009 swings?
• Will more ships balance out higher 2010 demand?
• What's the best way to play higher shipping rates?