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A reserve currency is a foreign exchange instrument that is widely accepted by the world's central banks. The requirements are political and economic stability and liquidity without excessive government controls. Central banks and leading global financial institutions hold reserve currencies...

By Edward D. Perks, CFA, Chief Investment Officer, Franklin Templeton Multi-Asset Solutions and Gene Podkaminer, CFA, Head of Multi-Asset Research Strategies, Franklin Templeton Multi-Asset Solutions Slower Global Growth A Rising Concern The global economy continues to show downward mome...

Markets across all asset classes are pawns and react to the news cycle around the world as they reflect the ever-changing economic and political landscapes. On Monday, September 16, markets received another lesson that participants must always prepare for the unexpected. The attacks on Saudi A...

Video Transcript There are three important things when I think about commodities influencing the markets currently. First is the U.S./China trade dispute. Second is global central banks, which have shifted aggressively towards easing as a supporting factor, and lastly, it is the direc...

Lumber is a critical industrial commodity. Construction projects around the world require wood, which is also an agricultural product. At the same time, paper is a wood product. The advent of computers has reduced the requirements for paper, but population growth around the world has increased...

By Jonathan Liss My guest today is GraniteShares founder and CEO, Will Rhind. Before founding GraniteShares in 2016, Will spent the previous 18 years working on launching and managing ETFs, first for the Barclays Global Investors iShares brand (which BGI later sold to BlackRock)...

Glencore ( GLNCY ) is one of the leading commodity-producing companies in the world with a vast array of raw material mines and other sources of output. At the same time, the company is an aggressive trading house. Where Glencore does not own production, they often serve as a leading merchant ...

If we needed a reminder of the consistent mess in the emerging market economies, we got it last week when the Argentine peso fell by 32%. Emerging markets offer market participants the potential for fantastic percentage gains. However, rewards are commensurate with risks, and then the emerging...

On Wednesday, July 31, the US Federal Reserve lowered the short term cut interest rates for the first time in over one decade. At the June meeting, the central bank set the stage for what occurred on July 31. The Fed made a symbolic move to lower the Fed Funds rate by 25 basis points. At the s...

In the world of economics, inflation is a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money. Economists regularly measure inflation to access the state of the economy. Cost-push inflation occurs when supplies force prices higher. In inflation caused by rising grain prices ...