Now that we’ve had a few weeks to look back on 2011, we can safely say that it was a good year for our commodities products overall. In fact, we had record volumes in ags, metals and energy products last year. That’s why it was surprising to find in Friday’s Wall Street Journal a story [...]
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The Role of Futures Markets in Providing Food Security
October 26, 2011
“I will acknowledge that markets exist.” For most of us a statement like that is right up there with “the sun comes up in the morning” – an indisputable fact. It’s just one of the amazing things I heard while attending the UN FAO’s 37th meeting of the Committee on Food Security. This was the [...]
Video: Terry Duffy Discusses Commodities on Fox Business Network
August 25, 2011
CME Group Executive Chairman Terry Duffy sat down with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business Network yesterday to discuss the factors leading to increased participation in commodities markets. Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com
The Factors Driving Food Prices
August 8, 2011
Two new reports name key economic indicators, mainly biofuels mandates and rising food demand in China, as the primary factors driving food and commodity prices in the global market. The first is a recent study from the United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security, which found that biofuels are more to blame than Chinese demand, [...]
Understanding the Source of Predictability in Commodity Markets
June 27, 2011
Over the weekend on his Streetwise Professor blog, Dr. Craig Pirrong had an insightful post about the speculation debate. Pirrong sums it up nicely in his conclusion: “Policy should be predicated on understanding, and therefore research on speculation in commodity markets should be focused on understanding the sources of predictability, and in particular, seeing if [...]