Effective hedging strategies, such as using futures, options, and swaps, are crucial for stabilizing costs and managing price risks in volatile base metal markets during H2 2025. Metal buyers can ...
Fifth Third reports middle market firms are increasingly adopting long-term currency and commodity hedging strategies to ...
Markets are always hunting for the next big trade. In 2026, I believe the trade will be a new wrinkle on the traditional basis trades where investors go long Digital Asset Treasury companies (DATs), ...
Bitcoin’s 21 million cap still exists on-chain, but not in price discovery. Futures, perpetual swaps, options, ETFs, and structured products routinely exceed spot volume, shifting price movements away ...
Research firm 10x says the negative funding rates reflect structural hedging by institutions, not a broad bearish play.
Montreal Exchange Inc. plans to launch a Canadian bank credit futures contract next year, at a time when heightened macro volatility is boosting global demand for access to the market. The contract ...
The most traded U.S.-listed oil exchange-traded funds opened higher on Tuesday, closely tracking a small rise in oil futures, as investors weigh Venezuela’s short-term supply and hedge exposure to the ...
On December 21, 2025, the CFTC’s Market Participants Division (“MPD”) issued a no‑action letter that could materially expand hedging options for commercial energy companies by allowing firms to ...
--Wheat for July delivery rose 2.7%, to $6.16 3/4 a bushel, on the Chicago Board of Trade on Wednesday, with fund traders favoring wheat as a way to hedge against the continuing issues in the Strait ...
When the VIX spiked to 52.33 in April 2025, most portfolios bled. iMGP DBi Managed Futures Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:DBMF) was built precisely for that kind of environment, and the past year's ...