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The late Marc Rich was a controversial figure. He began his career as an apprentice at what was the world's leading commodities trading merchant company, Philipp Brothers. Rich rose through the ranks to become the most successful trader meaning he was the leading profit producer for the compan...

Original Post By Stuart Burns Iron ore, coking coal, oil and the base metals have all taken a hit over recent weeks. In some part, that's due to a stronger dollar. To a larger degree, however, it's due to fear that the steps being taken to contain the spread of the new coronavirus ...

Over the past years, the world became accustomed to double-digit percentage economic growth in China. In late 2015 and early 2016, a slowdown in the world's most populous nation caused commodities prices to fall to multiyear lows as concerns over the Chinese economy rippled around the globe li...

By Chris Turner, Global Head of Strategy and Head of EMEA and LATAM Research & ING team Parallels to SARS? Ever since 7 January, when Chinese authorities confirmed that they had identified a new virus, global financial markets have increasingly taken notice of the coronavirus. ...

Original post By Stuart Burns The inverse relationship between the strength of the U.S. dollar and the price of commodities has held good over time. That relationship isn't a constant, of course. Political, economic or supply-demand fundamentals can trump dollar strength at times o...

I spent a lot of time in the 2019 End of Year Special Edition looking back and reflecting across the year just been, covering some of my best (and worst) charts and calls. But this article provides a look at the most important part of that report... As interesting and sometimes amusing as it...

What do you expect to be the key driver of stock market performance over the course of 2020? I believe the world debt crisis will finally "break the bank" in the foreseeable future. It's amazing that per capita world debt has surged above $200,000 (I wrote about this in SA last year). Worl...

The raw material markets posted a gain in the final quarter of 2019 as the dollar index moved lower, and a de-escalation of the trade war between the US and China supported commodity prices. The commodity asset class consisting of 29 of the primary commodities that trade on U.S and U.K. exchan...

Just 22 days left in the decade, and we're going to use a good portion of those to look back on some of the top-performing markets, asset classes, and alternative investment funds over that time. First up, commodities, which would likely rather not be mentioned at all. Talk about a lost deca...

Perhaps the most notorious commodities trader of the last century was Marc Rich. After beginning his career in the mailroom at Philipp Brothers in the 1950s, he climbed the ranks at what was then the world's leading raw materials merchant company. In the 1970s, Mr. Rich left the firm after a b...