Commodities, the Decade Ahead: 2020 – 2030

✍ Scribed by David J. Howden

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Each day billions of dollars are invested in the world´s major commodity markets. From aluminum to zinc, the trader must choose from a bewildering array of options. How do you decide which markets to commit to?

This book guides the investor through a pain-free way to track the global commodity markets. In plain language it presents a method to choose winners (and avoid the losers) in the world´s 43 largest commodity markets.

Drawing on his 15-plus years of experience in the financial markets as an economist, Dr. David J. Howden provides a roadmap to guide the investor through the muddles of the world´s major commodities. Timely forecasts and prospective returns from the crude oil to gold simplify the trading process for the reader and let him prudently invest his savings where the markets will treat his money best. Unlike other investment books, Dr. Howden also offers practical tips on finding the best commodity values and shows how all investors – from the institutional to the uninitiated – can minimize stress and take full advantage of the world´s commodity markets.

Full coverage of 43 of the world´s major commodity markets including:

Aluminum
Coal
Cobalt
Cocoa
Coffee
Copper
Corn
Cotton
Crude Oil
Ethanol
Feeder Cattle
Gold
Heating Oil
Iron
Lead
Hogs
Natural Gas
Nickel
Oats
Orange Juice
Palladium
Palm Oil
Platinum
RBOB Gasoline
Rice
Scrap Steel
Silver
Soybeans, Soybean Meal and Soybean Oil
Sugar
Tin
Uranium
Wheat
Zinc

In addition to these plus many more, there is coverage of several of the key indexes tracking commodity prices including the S&P GS Commodity Index, the Baltic Dry Index, and the VIX

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction ................................................................................... 5
Relative Valuation ......................................................................... 13
Period Forecasts ............................................................................ 21
Cycle Analysis ............................................................................... 29
A Historical Review of the Commodities ..................................... 39
Introduction to the Commodity Reports ...................................... 51
Commodity Reports ...................................................................... 57
Aluminum ..................................................................................... 59
Baltic Dry Index ............................................................................ 71
Canola ........................................................................................... 81
CBOE Volatility Index .................................................................. 91
Coal ............................................................................................. 101
Cobalt .......................................................................................... 113
Cocoa .......................................................................................... 125
Coffee .......................................................................................... 137
Copper ......................................................................................... 149
Corn ............................................................................................. 161
Cotton .......................................................................................... 173
Crude Oil: Brent .......................................................................... 185
Crude Oil: West Texas Intermediate .......................................... 197
Ethanol ........................................................................................ 209
Feeder Cattle ............................................................................... 221
Gold ............................................................................................. 233
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Heating Oil ................................................................................. 245
Iron .............................................................................................. 255
Lead ............................................................................................ 267
Lean Hogs .................................................................................. 279
Live Cattle ................................................................................... 291
Lumber ........................................................................................ 303
Milk ............................................................................................. 315
Natural Gas ................................................................................. 327
Nickel .......................................................................................... 339
Oats ............................................................................................. 351
Orange Juice ............................................................................... 363
Palladium .................................................................................... 375
Palm Oil ...................................................................................... 387
Platinum ...................................................................................... 397
RBOB Gasoline........................................................................... 409
Rice ............................................................................................. 419
S&P GS Commodity Index ......................................................... 431
Steel ............................................................................................. 441
Silver ............................................................................................ 453
Soybean Meal .............................................................................. 465
Soybean Oil ................................................................................. 475
Soybeans ..................................................................................... 485
Sugar ........................................................................................... 497
Tin ............................................................................................... 509
Uranium ...................................................................................... 521
Wheat .......................................................................................... 533
Zinc ............................................................................................. 545
Ranking and Conclusion ............................................................ 557

✦ Subjects

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