BOM News and Press, DB Base Metals Double Short ETN From 02/18/19

The price of copper made some progress on the upside last week as the price rose above the $2.80 per pound level on the nearby COMEX futures contract. Copper started the year with a move to a new low at $2.5430 per pound on January 3 but has been moving higher since that bottom. The price of...

This week, the world waited while trade negotiators from China and the United States huddled in Beijing for high-level talks over the ongoing trade dispute between the two countries. In 2018, the US under President Donald Trump put tariffs on many Chinese exports to the US and China retaliated...

Original Post By Stuart Burns The aluminum price has been fluctuating between around $50/ton above and below a median of $1,900 for several months now. There is considerable uncertainty as to where it is going to go in 2019, yet some commentators, such as ING Bank , are predicting...

Original Post By Stuart Burns Some call them safeguards, some call them protectionist barriers, and some love them and some hate them. Few measures divide like import tariffs. We have seen it in the U.S. While Europe would claim its own measures are a reaction to the impact of impo...

By Nitesh Shah, Director of Research, WisdomTree Europe & Aneeka Gupta, Associate Director, Research Any investor who has allocated to commodities over the last decade has experienced a difficult ride. Consider: We've had blockbuster returns in the S&P 500 Index over the last ...

Tight , Cathe Hendrick (Saatchi Art) Introduction In this regular note, I wish to provide a discussion on the degree of present fundamental tightness/looseness across the industrial metals, which will allow me to assess the investment case for the Invesco DB Base Metals ETF ([[DBB]]),...

The first of three significant events on the schedule for markets in the United States and around the world until the end of March will be the short-window when it comes to the reprieve of the most prolonged government shut down in US history that last for over one month. It is unlikely that t...

Original Post By Sohrab Darabshaw It was an expected development - so when it was announced, it did not come as much of a surprise to many in the steel sector in India (or even globally). An updated World Steel Association analysis of crude steel outputs by the steel-producing na...

Original Post By Stuart Burns A recent article by CBC in Canada highlights the mess that has resulted from the imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs between the U.S. and Canada. It is fair to say the same mess is almost certainly prevailing on the U.S. side of the border. The ...

Miners can be their own animal in the market, with different production and earnings cycles than many other stocks. They're known as a counter-cyclical opportunity, which has been especially attractive to investors over recent months as the market appears poised to turn over. But the meta...