The oil market continues to send mixed signals, with a pending U.S.-China trade deal and potential production cut extension--or deepening--by OPEC counterbalanced by rising crude inventories and an ...

Crude oil prices increased to a more than seven-year high on Jan 28 and reported six straight weeks of gains as the geopolitical turmoil between Russian and Ukraine aggravated concerns over energy ...

Over the last couple of weeks, the concept of “contango” — the situation where a futures price of a commodity is higher than the spot price, made popular among Bitcoiners by Preston Pysh and Plan B — ...

Contango and backwardation are important concepts for commodity traders, reflecting price differences for delivery in different periods. The 2X Bitcoin Strategy ETF applies these concepts to Bitcoin ...

Investors in commodities funds that hold futures contracts will hear or read the words contango and backwardation. The terms are apt to confuse even those with some Wall Street experience, but ...

No doubt about it: the Covid-19 outbreak has wreaked havoc on worldwide markets. While demand surges, albeit raggedly, for safe haven assets such as gold, equities have been slammed. A double whammy ...