Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Commodities are a vital part of the global economy and are essential in the production of goods and services. The term "commodities" refers to raw materials such as metals, energy, agricultural ...

A defining feature of CMCITR is its greater allocation to industrial metals and reduced allocation to precious metals ...

Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...

Commodity currencies, as the name suggests, are intrinsically tied to the fortunes of commodity markets. They represent economies whose prosperity is intricately linked to the extraction, processing ...

In this article, I’ll focus mainly on indexes based on commodity futures, as well as funds and exchange-traded funds that focus on commodities. Another note: I covered gold in another edition of ...

Under the CEA, the CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction over transactions in “commodity interests,”[9] meaning that only the CFTC can promulgate regulations as well as prosecute fraud and manipulation in ...

Tokenized commodities represent fractional ownership of real-world assets using digital tokens on a blockchain while preserving their tangible value. Tokenized commodities are digital versions of real ...

Bank of America predicts commodities will outperform bonds until the end of the decade. A structural rise in inflation could drive demand for commodities like oil and gold, according to the bank.