Commodities
Why Doesn't the Spot Price Tell the Whole Oil Story?
The futures curve, not the headline price, is where the market stores its expectations about supply, storage and time.
Author
Trevor Nash
Trevor Nash covers sport the way a coach reviews a match: slower, and with the boring parts included. His reporting runs from match analysis and athlete profiles built on schedules and testing numbers to contracts and rights deals, commodity supply read from inventory data, game studio acquisitions, and grooming under competition conditions.
Articles by Trevor Nash
Commodities
Crude Stocks Fell 1.8 Million Barrels — the Data Explains Why Markets Care
Two U.S. government reports, not headlines, do most of the weekly work in commodity prices — here is how the EIA's inventory count and the CFTC's positioning…
Commodities
What the Cocoa Price Shock Teaches About Soft Commodity Risk
Cocoa rose from three thousand dollars a ton to a peak above eleven thousand inside two years, then gave back most of it — the anatomy of a…
Earnings
JPMorgan Posts Record $21.2 Billion Quarter as Dealing Booms
The largest U.S. bank reported its biggest quarterly profit ever on July 14, powered by a 27 percent surge in investment banking revenue.
Commodities
Can Industrial Demand From Solar Keep Reshaping Silver's Price?
Photovoltaics now consume more than half of the world's silver in some years' accounting, pulling the old monetary metal into the industrial cycle.