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Price volatility challenges companies when it comes to managing margins and costs. As buyers scramble to deal with the whiplash of price volatility, sellers are trying to predict how this will play out in the future. It’s time to figure out how to factor in greater market uncertainty as you plan for the future. Fastmarkets provides the settlement prices for a range of cash-settled derivatives. We work with global exchanges to help market participants secure rates and reduce exposure to price volatility.
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Soybean front-month July futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) rebounded on Friday May 10 with support from soybean oil and despite estimates of ample offer and ending stocks for the 2024/25 crop in the latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report.
As the Intercontinental Exchange launches the first RBD soybean oil futures contract, David Becker explains the advantages of having an exchange-traded derivative and how this will help protect against price volatility
Learn more about the growth in lithium hydroxide futures contracts at the CME for January 2024
Learn more about how you could generate additional revenue by selling your embedded options
This week, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) launched option contracts on lithium hydroxide, which are cash-settled and differ from many of the CME commodity options on futures
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission starts reporting cobalt futures position information
Commodity risk management using pulp financial futures contracts
Cobalt futures volume and open interest are accelerating on the CME
The CME Group has tripled the volumes traded on its physically delivered global aluminium futures contract since the first quarter of 2022 – reaching a single-day high of 7,929 contracts on October 5, with a daily average of about 3,000 contracts so far this month and open interest at a record 1,411 contracts on October 19
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