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 ...

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Gold is widely recognized as both a commodity and a store of value. Traded globally on major exchanges, it holds intrinsic worth and serves as a hedge against inflation, currency fluctuations, and ...

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

The problem with the idea of a structural shift to commodities in the future and why it hasn’t happened in the past is due to the drivers of commodity prices. While the commodity trade is certainly ...

This article was written by Jim Wiederhold, Commodity Indices Product Manager at Bloomberg. Uncertain sentiment to start the year, triggered by Trump trade tariffs, AI boom and the uncertain path of ...

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 ...

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This article was written by Jim Wiederhold, Commodity Indices Product Manager at Bloomberg. Commodities are unique, with their drivers of performance differing from the more traditional asset classes.