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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...
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...
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)...
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...
By Carley Garner At a Glance Energy, grain, livestock and currency markets can all be affected by Fed decisions. Traders tend to focus on the interest rate and stock market going into a Federal Reserve meeting, but monetary policy often has profound impacts on commodity trade as well...
Tom's been telling anybody who would listen about Chinese hog farmers being hit with one of the worst outbreaks of African Swine Fever ((ASF)) in the country's history, and after hog futures finally caught up to the story - rising over 50% in March as pointed out by TT's Patrick Rooney - it'...
Not many people talk about commodities in the aggregate sense, i.e. as an overall asset class. Typically it's gold this or oil that, which is a shame because it is a really interesting asset class; particularly now as the core index we track is basically at a make-or-break turning point. The...
David Smith: Risk/Reward in Silver Favors Buying Now, Not Waiting for Big Moves Welcome to this week's Market Wrap Podcast, I'm Mike Gleason. Coming up David Smith, Senior Analyst at The Morgan Report and MoneyMetals.com columnist joins me and reviews the key reasons why we ought ...
Original Post By Sohrab Darabshaw India’s coal sector clearly needs some urgent initiatives from the government in order to give it a boost. Some analysts say it’s time the government opened up commercial coal mining to the private sector. This would have a dual effec...