What follows is a consolidated schedule for trading on some of the most popular North American futures markets for the Labor Day 2010 holiday.

Lind Plus Senior Market Strategist Richard Ilczyszyn discusses whether or not gold still has room to run.

Lind Plus Senior Market Strategist was featured on TheStreet.com TV today where he discussed his outlook for gold and why he thinks they may be range-bound in the short term. Phil also discussed his longer term outlook on the yellow metal in this interview.

by Mark Sachs
It’s been a frustrating and volatile year for stock market investors. Just when we thought we were out of the woods after the financial market crisis, trouble in the Eurozone reintroduced the possibility of a global double-dip recession. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 [...]

by Gord Weisemann
The U.S. July employment report was disappointing to say the least, and also included a negative revision to the previous month’s numbers. The second week of August brings us an FOMC meeting, where there is a growing feeling that Bernanke may have to add more stimulus to the system in order to get [...]

Montreal-based Senior Market Strategist Mario Maselli discusses why he believes sugar prices are rising and gives the winners and losers.

Lind Plus Senior Market Strategist Richard Ilczyszyn discussed the biggest threats to commodities in this current market environment.

Commodities are on the move! Scorching temperatures in Eastern Europe have pushed CBOT wheat futures above $7 a bushel, the highest price since 2008. During July, wheat prices advanced 38 percent, the biggest monthly gain since 1973. Corn and soybeans also piggybacked onto the rally.
In the softs space, coffee futures hit a 12-year high, topping [...]

Lind-Waldock clients can now gain access to the Indian stock market through the new CME Group E-Mini and E-Micro S&P CNX Nifty (Nifty 50) futures contracts. The contracts are listed and traded on CME Globex, with trading hours Monday – Friday, 3:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. CT the following day. (Friday the market closes at [...]

by Gord Weisemann
The past week has been a risk-on, risk-off, back-and-forth environment. Technically the pro-risk side traders are gaining a little of the upper hand as equity markets have pressed above some trendline resistance. As I write this, the European bank stress test results are being released and the initial outcome looks as though seven [...]