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Margin Call
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Commodities – a little bit of volatility anyone?

ANALYSIS: Most commodities are essential for our modern standard of living, so why are they so volatile?

Plant your seeds and then hope to avoid fire, flood, insects, and drought.

A paper by the International Monetary Fund titled ‘The Long-Run Behaviour of Commodity Prices: Small Trends and Big Variability’ found that, in aggregate, there was a slight downward trend in inflation-adjusted commodity prices, over at least the 140-year period they studied, yet price

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Paul Robertshawe Tue, 28 Feb 2023
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