Index futures are futures contracts where the underlying asset is a stock index. These financial derivatives allow investors to buy or sell the future value of a stock index at a predetermined price ...

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 ...

Derivatives are financial contracts. Their value comes from an underlying asset. The asset can be a stock, index, commodity or currency. Traders do not buy the asset directly. They trade on expected ...

Commodity prices are on the move again following the escalation of tensions between Israel, the United States and Iran. In the wake of surgical strikes on Iranian leadership and nuclear facilities, ...

The iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust offers diversified exposure to commodities futures, with significant weighting in energy, metals, and some agriculture. GSG is best suited for tactical, ...

Let’s start by stating the obvious. Commodities exist in the physical world. That means they are very different from stocks, bonds or cryptocurrencies. Those asset classes can move around the world ...

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For retirees (or soon-to-be retirees), futures contracts can offer an additional avenue for diversification and hedging opportunities, helping to manage market volatility. However, there are a few ...

As Wall Street has migrated from actively managed stock funds to passive index ones in recent years, commodity funds have quietly moved in the opposite direction—toward active management. In both ...

LONDON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The Singapore-based Abaxx commodities exchange plans to launch a lithium carbonate contract on March 7 that will be physically deliverable at three locations, the company ...