DPU News and Press, DB Commodity Long ETN From 07/06/20

In 2019, the six LME nonferrous metals were 1.74% higher from the closing level at the end of December 2018. In Q1 2020, the sector plunged 17.09%. In Q2, it came back and was 12.88% higher. Over the first six months of this year, base metals were 6.58% lower. The best performing commodity in ...

Our Materials Price Index ((MPI)) rose another 3.0% last week, the fourth time in the past five weeks that it has posted a gain of three percent or more. Since hitting a low at the end of April the MPI has risen 20%, though it is still down 14.2% in the year to date. The easing of more restric...

In 2018 and throughout most of 2019, the U.S. and China were at each other’s throats over trade. On the campaign trail in 2015 and 2016, U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to level the field on international trade. He warned that previous administrations continued to treat China as a...

With everything from Lean Hogs (-20%) to Sugar (-21%) to WTI Crude Oil (-45%) being taken to the proverbial woodshed so far in 2020, you'd be excused for thinking US-traded futures are the only game in town in terms of volatility and sell-offs. But there are a few billion people over in Chin...

While there has been much discussion around oil supply in the form of OPEC+ cuts, curtailments, production shut-ins, and potential pro-rationing of production at the state level, the problem facing oil markets is first and foremost a demand issue, which has necessitated a supply response. Oil ...

Video Transcript Jenna Dagenhart: Hello, and welcome to Asset TV. As people around the world are staying home, the COVID-19 pandemic is having a huge impact on all asset classes, including commodities. OPEC Plus just reached a deal for the biggest oil production cut ever, but the qu...

The Bloomberg Commodity Index closed on Monday, April 20, 2020 around 60.40. The index ended 2019 around 81.00. The decline so far this year is just under 25 percent. This provides the background for what the United States and the world has to deal with. The particular product that has g...

The raw material markets posted a significant loss in the first quarter of 2020 as the global pandemic caused a deflationary spiral taking the prices of most assets lower. The commodity asset class consisting of 29 of the primary commodities that trade on US and UK exchanges moved 17.77% low...

I've come up with what might be an unconventional way of forecasting inflation. I begin with the per capita net growth in aggregate debt in the US as my baseline to work with. From there, I use four factors that will prove to be either an inflationary force or a deflationary force. Dependi...

Stagflation is a condition where there is persistently high inflation combined with high unemployment and stagnant demand in a country’s economy. As the Coronavirus wreaks havoc with the global economy, markets have experienced a deflationary spiral where prices have moved appreciably l...