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The investment in commodities is starting to be more important during the last years. The paper describes the … characteristics of financially important commodities. In many cases a passive investment in an index is most suitable. As the GSCI is … bond portfolios including commodities is discussed. The paper shows that the effects differ substantially during different …
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This paper investigates the impact of seventeen US macroeconomic announcements on two broad and representative commodity futures indices. Based on a large sample from 1989 to 2005, we show that the daily price response of the CRB and GSCI commodity futures indices to macroeconomic news is...
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In light of the recently passed 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, we assess the effect of margin changes on prices, the risk-sharing between speculators and hedgers, and the price stability of 20 commodity futures markets. We find that margin increases decrease the rate at which prices change, yet they...
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The largest Commodity Trading Houses account for a large and increasing share of international trade, linked arguably to their financialization and - according to some commentators - giving rise to issues of 'systemic importance' similar to those applying to large investment banks. This paper...
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In this paper we investigate price and volatility risk originating in linkages between energy and agricultural commodity prices in Germany and study their dynamics over time. We propose an econometric approach to quantify the volatility and correlation risk structure, which has a large impact...
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This paper analyses futures prices for four energy commodities (light sweet crude oil, heating oil, gasoline and … natural gas) and five agricultural commodities (corn, oats, soybean oil, soybeans and wheat), over the period 1986-2010. Using … commodities futures while macroeconomic factors help explaining returns in commodities futures. Moreover, spillovers between …
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This article explores whether common technical trading strategies used in equity markets can be employed profitably in the markets for WTI and Brent crude oil. The strategies tested are Bollinger Bands, based on a mean-reverting hedge portfolio of WTI and Brent. The trading systems are tested...
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elements for a commodities based industrialisation strategy, including an analysis of the benefits of such strategy for Africa …
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