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Commodities. Adam Maitin Colgate Finance Club – Spring 2011. What is a Commodity. Commodities are often substances that come out of the earth and maintain roughly a universal price. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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CommoditiesAdam Maitin
Colgate Finance Club – Spring 2011
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What is a CommodityCommodities are often substances that come out
of the earth and maintain roughly a universal price.
Examples of commodities include iron ore, crude oil, coal, salt, sugar, coffee, beans, soybeans, aluminum, copper, rice, wheat, gold, silver, palladium, platinum.
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How is Price DeterminedPrices are universal and fluctuate daily based on
global supply and demand.The inventory of commodities plays a role in the
pricing, with low inventories typically leading to more volatile future prices and increasing the risk of of a stockout (inventory exhaustion)
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How to Trade Commodity Futures
Commodity futures trading involves buying and selling contracts for the future delivery of physical raw materials.
The futures market allows producers and consumers of each product to engage in risk management.
Although making the actual futures contract trade is similar to buying and selling shares of stock, the trade is different in that almost all futures are bought on margin.
As a result profits and losses are magnified.
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ExchangesChicago Board of Trade (CBOT)Chicago Mercantile Exchange
(CME)Dalian Commodity Exchange
(DCE)Euronext.liffe (LIFFE)Kansas City Board of Trade
(KCBT)Kuala Lumpur Futures
Exchange (KLSE)London Metal Exchange (LME)
New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)
National Commodity Exchange Limited (NCEL)
Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX)
International Indonesian Forex Change Market (IIFCM)
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Indexes
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Commodity Relationships
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Oil and Natural Gas
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Brent CrudeBrent Crude is the biggest of the many
classifications of crude oil.The other well-known classifications are the OPEC
Reference Basket, Dubai Crude and West Texas Intermediate (WTI)
Recently there has been a divergence as wide as $11 in the price between Brent and WTI.
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Natural GasNat. Gas is difficult to store and transport.There are many types of natural gas.The price varies greatly depending on weather,
location and type of consumer.Recently, we have seen the price stagnate
because of low demand.As a result, national supply as well as Canadian
imports have decreased.
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GoldWill the price of gold stop rising?Why is the price so high?When investors are fearful of the markets, they
put their money in gold. It is viewed as a safe investment when markets
are bearish and or volatile.
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US Dollar Index