Few people, if any, can answer these questions with 100% certainty — What will the price be for a barrel of oil in six months? Units of natural gas? Soybeans? Global events continue to prove that a ...

An initial question faced by a new hedge fund manager is whether or not registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will be required. Limited Trading Exemption CFTC Rule ...

When it comes to commodities, companies are concerned about price fluctuations and how those fluctuations affect gross margins and budgets. As companies look to protect their cost structure, buyers ...

In a world of financial markets characterized by constant fluctuations and uncertainties, investors are often on the lookout for strategies to safeguard their assets and potentially generate ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. William Baldwin covers investing, taxation and corporate finance. Budget deficits are going to be insane. Moody’s belatedly admits ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's been a tough few months for companies that use derivatives to hedge their commodity costs. A collapse in industrial metal prices handed major paper losses to firms like Ford ...

Nomura Asset Management’s Richard Hodges began the year by buying credit default swaps, worried that rate cut bets were becoming too aggressive. He reduced the hedge when the cost of protection ...

Hedge funds picked up commodity sensitive stocks at their fastest pace in five months in the week ending on July 4 as they piled into U.S. energy and materials companies for a third week in a row, new ...

Hedge funds have dramatically increased their net buying of commodity sensitive sectors, combining materials ( NYSEARCA: XLB) ...

CME Group is preparing to roll out swap-based event contracts that bring prediction-style trading into mainstream finance, with round-the-clock trading set to ...