Book description
- Covers all the major commodity markets, their products, applications and risks
- Learn how to invest, hedge and trade in the related physical, equities and derivatives markets
Commodities such as oil and gas, food and water, solar and wind power, metals and minerals, animals and fish have become a genuine asset class alongside bonds, equities, and foreign exchange.
Mastering the Commodities Markets is an introduction to both the general commodity markets and to specific products: precious metals, oil and other hydrocarbons, rare earth elements, aqua and agriculture, alternative energy and carbon and environmental commodities. Beginning with the basics of commodities and how they have developed as an asset class in their own right, the book then introduces key commodities chapter by chapter, looking at the background and context of each product, their origins and manufacture, key market participants, pricing structures and patterns, risks and how to trade, hedge and use indices.
Mastering Commodities Markets includes:
- Commodity prices and their effect on financial markets
- Financial and non-financial market participants
- Economics of commodities, pricing mechanics and markets
- Trading, hedging, arbitrage and investing
- Commodity Indices
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- About the author
- Table of Contents
- Author’s Acknowledgements
- Publisher’s acknowledgements
- Contributors
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1 Commodity Fundamentals
- COMMODITIES ARE AN ASSET CLASS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT
- RANGE OF COMMODITY INVESTMENTS
- MARKET DEVELOPMENTS AND GLOBAL DRIVERS
- COMMODITY PRICES AND THEIR EFFECT ON FINANCIAL MARKETS
- MARKET PARTICIPANTS
- HOW COMMODITIES DIFFER FROM OTHER ASSETS: STORAGE, TRANSPORTATION/TRANSMISSION/SHIPPING, SPOILAGE
- ECONOMICS OF COMMODITIES: SPOT AND FORWARD TRANSACTIONS
- FORWARD CURVES: CONTANGO AND BACKWARDATION
- UNDERSTANDING THE ‘BASIS’
- COMMODITY HEDGING, TRADING, ARBITRAGE
- COMMODITY INDICESs
- 2 Key Commodities Derivatives
- 3 Oil
- 4 Gas
- 5 Coal
- 6 Alternative Energy
- 7 Carbon and Environmental Commodities
- 8 Precious Metals
- 9 Base Metals
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10 Rare Earth Elements
- BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
- DEFINITION AND KEY FEATURES
- SUPPLY AND DEMAND
- WORLD PRODUCTION AND RESERVES
- IMPORTANCE OF CHINA
- IMPORTANCE OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS IN TODAY’S MARKETS
- DEFENCE USES OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS
- REE PRICING AND PRICE DISCOVERY
- KEY STEPS TO PROJECT COMPLETION
- HEDGING AND TRADING
- OUTLOOK FOR RARE EARTH ELEMENTS
- 11 Food and Agriculture
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12 Water
- BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
- THE WATER CYCLE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
- MAJOR WATER RESOURCES
- POPULATION PRESSURES
- RENEWABLE VERSUS NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES
- AFRICA
- WATER CONVERSION AND DESALINATION
- PROCESS OVERVIEW
- PRICING AND PRICE DISCOVERY
- CONCEPT OF ‘PEAK WATER’
- FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
- INTRODUCTION TO THE MATRIX PARTNERSHIP
- Index
- Marketing Advertisment
- Imprint
Product information
- Title: Mastering the Commodities Markets
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2013
- Publisher(s): FT Publishing International
- ISBN: 9780273770121
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