The oil market continues to send mixed signals, with a pending U.S.-China trade deal and potential production cut extension--or deepening--by OPEC counterbalanced by rising crude inventories and an ...

CONTANGO WATCH: Natural gas remained in backwardation for a third week amid scorching summer temperatures across the United States. For the next month or two, roll costs should not be a major ...

No doubt about it: the Covid-19 outbreak has wreaked havoc on worldwide markets. While demand surges, albeit raggedly, for safe haven assets such as gold, equities have been slammed. A double whammy ...

Last week’s plunge in crude oil gives investors an opportunity to buy at cheaper prices, but at the expense of a less favorable forward curve. Has oil moved into backwardation yet? What does corn’s ...

Bassam Fattouh is a Reader in Finance and Management in the Department of Financial and Management Studies, SOAS, University of London and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Energy ...

When it comes to commodity trading, few words are more serious in an investor's vocabulary than contango. This phenomenon has been known to burn a hole in positions and cause problems for those who ...

In a report titled “Why Is The Bitcoin Futures Curve So Steep?” JPMorgan Chase analysts examined the growing futures and derivatives market surrounding bitcoin, provided insights as to why the ...

Sluggish oil demand recovery with resurging coronavirus cases in many parts of the U.S. and the world and the return of previously withheld production from OPEC+ and North America have combined to ...

Have you ever wondered what contango actually means and how it affects your investments? Sometimes it seems like investors have a language all their own. If you ever tune in to the talking heads on ...