Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
The Thomson Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index (TR/J CRB) is a commodity price index. It was first calculated by Commodity Research Bureau, Inc.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Several clothing retailers, including Limited Brands Inc (NYSE:LTD) and Zumiez Inc (NASDAQ:ZUMZ), posted better-than-expected sales in April, helping to allay fears that March's strength came from an earlier Easter and a warm start to the spring season.
But Costco Wholesale Corp (NASDAQ:COST) missed Wall Street estimates for the second month in a row, indicating competition with other big-box retailers hurt the biggest U.S. warehouse club operator's performance.Of the eight retailers that had reported April sales by early Thursday, four beat expectations and two missed, according to Thomson Reuters Data.The Thomson Reuters index of analysts' expectations for 20 retailers that report monthly sales at stores open at least a year called for a 1.5 percent increase in April, compared with a 4.3 percent rise in March.March results benefited because of an earlier Easter -- April 8 this year, compared with April 24 in 2011. It was also the warmest March in more than 50 years, which helped spur ...Commodities bounded higher along with global stocks markets on Tuesday on fresh hopes that European leaders would iron out the region's debt problems.Spot gold ralli...
By Ross KerberBOSTON (Reuters) - Fidelity Investments added five low-cost equity index funds to its lineup on Monday, its latest move to catch the thrifty, back-to-b...
Oil fell $3 Thursday as a raft of weak U.S. economic data provided a fresh blow to shaky investor confidence and extended U.S. oil's losses to 13 percent so far in A...
By Barani Krishnan and Joshua SchneyerNEW YORK (Reuters) - Two of the biggest commodity hedge funds suffered a second month of painful losses in June, falling victim...
Oil prices bounded to their highest in two weeks on Tuesday, aided by a broad rush back into battered commodities at the start of the third quarter and forecasts for...
Commodities Trader Oscar Carboni on why bad weather will lead to a shortage of durum wheat.
Oil prices rose 2 percent on Wednesday, climbing to two-week highs as an unexpected drop in U.S. distillate inventories trumped a sharp rise in gasoline stocks and a...
Oil prices fell 2 percent on Monday as concerns about the euro zone sovereign debt crisis sent investors out of commodities and into safer havens.The Reuters-Jefferi...
World stocks rose on Friday, supported by a weaker dollar as investors took the view after weak U.S. economic data this week that the Federal Reserve will be slow to...
Oil rebounded more than 3 percent on Wednesday, swept up in a broad commodities rally after buyers emerged to scoop up bargains after the selling binge in the last t...
Brent crude oil surged more than $6 a barrel on Monday, the second-largest gain on record, snapping back from last week's record sell-off on a wave of bargain-huntin...
(Reuters) - By Joshua SchneyerNEW YORK, May 9 (Reuters) - When oil prices fell below $120 a barrel in early New York trade last Thursday, a few big companies that ar...
The dollar and Treasury prices extended gains slightly on Friday after the University of Michigan/Thomson Reuters index on U.S. consumer sentiment unexpectedly fell ...
Brazilian stocks plunged Friday, falling below 64,000 points for the first time this month on continued concern over a Greek bailout and a lower-than-expected profit...
Oil prices ended 2011 up 13 percent as a fresh wave of supply concerns capped a year of unrest and disruptions in North Africa and the Middle East that overwhelmed c...
Agricultural markets rallied on Friday to end the year in style, but sharp losses in wheat, soybeans, cotton, cocoa and sugar at certain points this year weighed on ...
Global equities and the euro rallied Tuesday after Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he would resign, sparking optimism that a new leader will act more a...
By Jason LangeRisks are rising that a moribund job market and potentially steep drop in inflation could push the United States into a downward spiral of falling wage...
By Laurence Fletcher and Tommy WilkesLONDON (Reuters) - A sharp sell-off in commodity markets in the past few weeks is wreaking havoc with the track records of some ...
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