Commodities
Commodities Market: Who Actually Moves a Barrel of Oil? Brokers in the Commodity Chain
Producers, hedgers and speculators never meet. A layered cast of intermediaries connects them — and each layer takes a small toll.
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Trevor Nash
Independent editorial contributor covering sports analysis and the business of sport for VUGA Network publications.
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Analysis
The Analyst's Guide to Breaking Analysis Paralysis
More research feels like progress. Usually it is a delay with better paperwork.
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.
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…