The earliest commodity ETFs, such as SPDR Gold Shares ( ) and iShares Silver Trust ( ), actually owned the physical commodity ( e . g ., gold and silver bars ).
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The benefits of owning the physical commodity are limited, because demand has cooled since late last month when wheat futures reached a 14-year high as overseas countries snapped up limited supplies, analysts said.
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Extremely large changes in prices, 15 or 20 percent in a single quarter, occur with higher frequency in the pulp market than in virtually any other physical commodity markets, with the possible exception of crude oil,
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That's because they can take delivery of the physical commodities as of May 8, and supplies of both are tight in the high-demand East Coast after refinery problems, rising demand and an unexpected cold snap earlier this month.
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If that bill is not approved, Citigroup would be faced with having to sell the Travelers insurance-underwriting operations _ along with its real-estate management and investment operations, the trading of physical commodities and its oil and gas exploration business.
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According to its website : " it's difficult to define Enron in a sentence but the closest we come is this : we make commodity markets so that we can deliver physical commodities to our customers at a predictable price ."
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A cash settled cattle contract, though, would provide an alternative to the Chicago Merc's existing contract, which is still settled with the delivery of live animals, the last contract still settled with actual delivery of a physical commodity instead of cash.
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It tracks trades on futures contracts for physical commodities, like energy ( petroleum, gas ), precious metals ( gold, silver ), industrial metals ( zinc, copper ), grains ( corn, wheat ), livestock ( lean hogs, live cattle ), among others.
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Crude oil became the world's most actively traded commodity, and the NYMEX Division light sweet crude oil futures contract becoming the world's most liquid form for crude oil trading, as well as the world's largest-volume futures contract trading on a physical commodity.
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Following graduation in 1984 from the Wharton School, Abdelnour worked as an investment banker at Drexel Burnham Lambert, he founded his own investment company / private family office, Blackhawk Partners, Inc . engaged in the physical commodities trading and private equity businesses.
