For Teachers: Lessons on Oil and Gold

The Week in Review is provided by The Stock Market Game, which is a curriculum-based teaching tool that allows students to invest a hypothetical $100,000 online stock portfolio to learn about long-term saving and investing.

The Stock Market Game Week in Review: March 10-14

The mortgage crisis and credit woes continued to be highlighted in the headlines last week and Wall Street responded to the Labor Department's unchanged Consumer Price Index (CPI) released Thursday, Mar. 13. The CPI, a key inflation reading, showed prices maintained the levels from the previous month. Economists had expected a 0.2% rise in this measure after the rise in February left overall prices 4% above where they were 12 months earlier and down from the 4.3% rise in January. Cheaper energy helped keep overall consumer prices in check, the Labor Department said. This report boosts the chance for a big interest rate cut at the Fed's meeting this week, as the increase is still a bit above the perceived comfort zone of central bankers .

We received positive feedback from many teachers for focusing the previous Week in Review on the energy sector, which is performing well in these trying times. So now we're highlighting two selected commodities that are also holding up. ...