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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 ...
Commodities were on mostly sound footing in the first half of 2019. The S&P GSCI returned more than 13 percent as of June 30, one of the best first six months in recent memory. It was not without its challenges, though. In a repeat of last year, crude oil was the top-performing commodity...
When I last covered the CME Group, Inc. ( CME ), I explained why the company offers an incredible growth trajectory for investors. I wrote that the "CME and their shares are likely to continue to appreciate for as long and far as the eye can see." On March 11, the day that piece came out, the ...
The raw material markets posted a small loss in the second quarter of 2019 even though the dollar index moved lower as trade issues between the US and China remained unresolved on the final trading day of the first half of the year. The commodity asset class consisting of 29 of the primary com...
The raw material markets posted a small loss in the second quarter of 2019 even though the dollar index moved lower as trade issues between the US and China remained unresolved on the final trading day of the first half of the year. The commodity asset class consisting of 29 of the primary com...
The commodities asset class has been on the front lines of the trade dispute between the US and China. Whether it is soybeans or the copper market, many raw material prices experienced increased volatility since last year when the wave of protectionism began. Tariffs and subsidies interfere ...