Agro Commodities & Agricultural Produts

Is there a difference between buying wheat in the commodities market, for example, and buying wheat futures?…. Click here to Read More

Pennies have various metals in them. What would they be worth if melted down and sold as separate commodities. For extra credit – what price would the Penny components have to rise to, to make melting them and separating the metals…. Click here to Read More

around the fifth century c.e what was he main commodity of the trans saharan trade? a) spices from china and southeast asia b) cedar from lebanon c) gold from the western and central sudan d) myrrh and frankincense from the kingdom on Punt? around the fifth century c.e what was the* main commodity of the trans saharan…. Click here to Read More

If a Hong Kong resident setups a BVI to trade commodity futures in NYMEX, what tax does he pay? profit…. Click here to Read More

im in high school and am planning to become a commodity broker. i was wondering if an associates degree would be enough or is it better to get a bachelors and…. Click here to Read More

I’m familiar with the concept of supply and demand, just curious to see what else is out there that I’m not aware of that could have an underlying influence on fluctuations in commodity prices. Also, any suggestions on where I could research these factors would be greatly…. Click here to Read More

For a commodity future, the futures buyer has to pay certain costs that compensate for not carrying the asset. I know convenience yield is a reward to the physical holder, but storage costs are a burden. How do we incorporate these things into calculating the financial futures value? Also, how do INTEREST RATES affect the futures value? Thanks…. Click here to Read More

In a quarter in which GDP shrank by 5.7% and the Fed cut the overnight rate almost to zero, commodity prices…. Click here to Read More

. . . that is, like a loaf of bread or a gallon of milk are commodity items; with lean manufacturing, engineering improvements, manufacturing automation, and vendors’ supply-chain efficiencies, etc. continually reducing the cost of an average car. In other words, has the producing of a vehicle become so efficient that a vehicle is no longer perceived as a special engineering marvel that you’ll have to fix if anything ever goes wrong with it, but has almost become sort of a throw-away-and-buy-new (after its warranty has expired) type of product? Go to any automobile salvage yard and see the newer models that are already scrapped with all the thousands of still-good parts on each one, and few models from the 1980′s even available there anymore. Or, to look at it another way, the fact that you longer negotiate the sales price (on most non-luxury “general purpose” vehicles) is a strong indicator that they are now simply consumer commodities, in the same sense that you don’t negotiate the…. Click here to Read More