Hedging with futures effectively locks in the price of a commodity today ... as well as the return prospects and risks. For simplicity's sake, we assume one unit of the commodity, which can ...

Prices might have never been higher, but gold miners show few signs of rushing to lock in any of the recent gains.

Investors interested in profiting from / hedging against inflation could have chosen to invest in single-commodity ETFs, but doing so would have been very risky. Choosing gold or silver would have ...

Hedging commodity risk is very important especially ... We should have stock experts talk more on this when they evaluate company prospects. The author is a Chief Economist, CARE Ratings and ...

Since then its hedging power has been less evident ... The good: Long-term prospects for commodity producers are as robust as for any sector of the stock market—and better than for commodity ...

The disconnect between global economic growth and commodity prices is focusing treasurers’ minds on hedging exposures to everything from cocoa to cobalt. Earlier this month, the World Bank published a ...

Tumbling gold prices are raising the prospect of a return to hedging - a strategy that’s been shunned by investors and producers who spent at least $10 billion at the end of the last decade ...

StoneX (NASDAQ:SNEX) is a New York-based, global financial services company, operating across six principal areas: commercial hedging, global payments, securities, physical commodities ...

Understanding the financial health of the company’s balance sheet is essential to evaluate the company’s prospects ... their hedging strategies. Hedging practices applied to commodities ...

Years of rising commodity prices have seen hedging volumes plummet, and mining firms say they have no plans to change course – that’s despite a surge in volatility in the second half of 2011 and less ...