Investing in Commodities

Minimize risk and maximize profit as a commodities investor Investing in Commodities For Dummies gives you an in-depth look at how commodities stack up against other assets and advice on how to avoid investing pitfalls. This book shows you how to diversify beyond stocks and ...

La guerra de los chips

la gran lucha por el dominio mundial

PREMIO BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR DEL FINANCIAL TIMES MEJOR LIBRO DEL AÑO SEGÚN THE ECONOMIST BEST SELLER DE THE NEW YORK TIMES El libro del año. Define el fin de la era de la globalización y explica el mayor conflicto geopolítico desde la guerra ...

El mundo está en venta

la cara oculta del negocio de las materias primas

Las empresas encargadas de la compraventa de materias primas mueven 17 billones de dólares al año. O lo que es lo mismo: un tercio de la economía global. Nos proporcionan el café que bebemos, los metales con los que se fabrican nuestros teléfonos y la ...

Commodity derivatives

markets and applications

Commodity Derivatives In the newly revised Second Edition of Commodity Derivatives: Markets and Applications, expert trading educator and author Neil Schofield delivers a comprehensive overview of a wide variety of commodities and derivatives. Beginning with discussions of commodity markets generally before moving on to derivative ...

Investing in gold and silver

Investing and trading in gold and silver is always a sound idea-and that goes double in a time of unusual market fluctuation. As people look for safe places to diversify their investment risk, you'll likely see the value of your investment go up where ...

De tulipanes a bitcoins

una historia de fortunas creadas y perdidas en mercados de materias primas

Tras el impacto del coronavirus en la economía mundial, y después de que el oro alcanzara nuevos precios récord, los mercados se encuentran en una encrucijada de megatendencias de inversión, tales como la demografía, el cambio climático, la electrificación y la digitalización. Estudiar y aprender ...

Crude volatility

the history and the future of boom-bust oil prices

As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s ...

Cosechas especulativas

financiarización, alimentación y agricultura

Este libro nos ofrece una perspectiva detallada de los vínculos entre los sistemas alimentario y financiero, ofreciendo una mayor claridad sobre este tema, gracias al uso de un vocabulario cotidiano y ejemplos concretos. Examina los mecanismos mediante los cuales los procesos de financiarización han transformado ...

Principles of commodity economics and finance

A rigorous but practical introduction to the economic, financial, and political principles underlying commodity markets. Commodities have become one of the fastest growing asset classes of the last decade and the object of increasing attention from investors, scholars, and policy makers. Yet existing treatments of ...

Agricultural risk transfer

from insurance to reinsurance to capital markets

'Agricultural Risk Transfer' introduces the main concepts of agricultural (re)insurance and capital market risk transfer that are discussed through industry case studies. It also discusses best industry practices for all main insurance products for crop, livestock, aquaculture and forestry risks including risk assessment, underwriting ...

Un grano de cacao

perspectivas y futuro de la agricultura africana

Actualmente, la realidad africana alberga múltiples contradicciones. ¿Cómo explicar que un continente agrícola tenga millones de hambrientos? Para responder a esta cuestión hay numerosas hipótesis, pero todas ellas del mismo lugar: la historia. No se puede entender el modelo agrícola africano sin la colonización, ni ...

Carbon

Carbon is the political challenge of our time. While critical to supporting life on earth, too much carbon threatens to destroy life as we know it, with rising sea levels, crippling droughts, searing heat waves, and catastrophic floods sounding the alarm on a future now ...

Commodity derivatives

a guide for future practitioners

Commodity Derivatives: A Guide for Future Practitioners describes the origins and uses of these important markets. Commodities are often used as inputs in the production of other products, and commodity prices are notoriously volatile. Derivatives include forwards, futures, options, and swaps; all are types of ...

Cazadores de materias primas

Sin carburante, los automóviles se paran. Cualquiera lo sabe, hasta un niño. Pero, ¿os habéis preguntado cómo sería nuestra vida sin materias primas? Pues, ¡se acabaría bastante rápido ir en coche! Tomemos como ejemplo el cobre: en un automóvil normal encontramos… ¡un kilómetro y medio ...

Natural resources as capital

An introduction to the concepts and tools of natural resource economics, including dynamic models, market failures, and institutional remedies. This introduction to natural resource economics treats resources as a type of capital; their management is an investment problem requiring forward-looking behavior within a dynamic setting ...

Análisis económico del comportamiento Giffen en mercados agroalimentarios = Economic analysis of Giffen behaviour in agrifood markets

INDICE: El análisis y los resultados de este trabajo, si bien provisionales, son útiles tanto para docentes, investigadores como estudiantes, así como para la mejora de políticas económicas y agroalimentarias. Su tema central de estudio es la conducta Giffen, que tiende a darse en circunstancias ...

Crude volatility

the history and the future of boom-bust oil prices

As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s ...

Investor sentiment effect in european stock markets

La presente obra se adentra en el estudio del potencial efecto del sentimiento del inversor sobre la valoración de activos, su efecto en los pronósticos de beneficios y recomendaciones de los analistas y su impacto sobre los activos derivados. Abarca el efecto del sentimiento del ...

Commodity markets

asset allocation, pricing and risk management

The increasing presence of investors and financial intermediaries in commodity markets, together with the huge increase in the volatility of commodity prices, have renewed the interest in commodities and commodity derivatives. In the last decade, a better understanding of the behavior of commodity prices and ...

Currencies, commodities and consumption

Currency values, prices, consumption and incomes are at the heart of the economic performance of all countries. In order to make a meaningful comparison between one economy and another, economists routinely make use of purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates, but while PPP rates are ...