Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. John Kemp at Thomson Reuters is a big fan of commodity curves — backwardation, contango and all the principles ...

According to a forthcoming paper in the Journal of International Money and Finance, there have been significant changes in the risk premia of oil futures since 2005. Regular readers of AllAboutAlpha ...

Crude oil continues to fall as analysts are now predicting that we could see prices fall below $75.00. An analyst this morning said that WTI crude oil is Crude Oil In Backwardation While Brent Oil In ...

When investors trade futures contracts for oil, iron and wheat, they’re helping to establish the market prices for these key commodities. Commodities prices can fluctuate dramatically over short ...

Oil prices have continued to rally this year as economies recover from impaired pandemic levels, however, calendar spreads have been unable to realize their bullish intent. In fact, calendar spread ...

Gold futures were briefly in backwardation on March 16. Backwardation in gold is extremely rare because gold is not consumed, and therefore there cannot be a gold shortage that would warrant ...

In the past, the topic of backwardation has come up and I've tried to write about and simplify understanding it. We now have backwardation deeper and further out than anything we've seen in the past ...

In the world of commodities, the differential between one delivery period and another for the same raw material can go by different names, but they all have the same meaning. Term structure, the ...