The CRB Commodity Yearbook 2006
Wiley; Book & CD-ROM edition (May 30, 2006)
ISBN: 0471771821
Rating – 5 stars
This book is the single most comprehensive source of
commodity and futures market information available. Since 1939 traders,
hedgers, portfolio managers, and speculators have relied rely on The CRB
Commodity Yearbook to help them navigate the vagaries of the commodity markets.
The Yearbook’s depth renders it indispensable. It helps identify changing
trends in supply and demand and for projecting important price movements. This
edition provides covers more than 100 domestic and international commodities. It
includes seasonal patterns and historical data from the past ten years as well
as current monthly and annual pricing and trading patterns.
The information is easy to access. Each commodity is introduced by a brief
article, recent pricing trends and factors such as droughts, wars, diseases, or
politics—that have influenced past prices. Data presented in over 900 tables,
graphs, and price charts. They are clear. The companion CD-ROM provides the
information in an electronic format.
Some of the biggest stock moves the Pointed Pundit has had the good fortune
to participate in have been leveraged by substantial moves in commodity prices.
If we are re-entering that type of market cycle, traders and investors cannot
afford to be without this book.
Penned by the Pointed Pundit
July 22, 2006, 4:54:05 PM
