2013 is the first year commodities have been in backwardation since 2003. For those of you who need a refresher on the definition of backwardation, you are not alone, so here it is: ”When a near-month ...

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When investors trade futures contracts for oil, iron and wheat, they’re helping to establish the market prices for these key commodities. Commodities prices can fluctuate dramatically over short ...

Backwardation is associated with falling inventories and a tightening market so it is logical that it should also be associated with an increase in flat prices as well. If OPEC succeeds in draining ...

Worldwide, an incredible tower of debt has been under construction since President Nixon’s 1971 default on the gold obligations of the US government. His decree severed the redeemability of the dollar ...

A contango market is often confused with a normal futures curve; and a normal backwardation market is confused with an inverted futures curve. Let's start by getting an understanding of the difference ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Apparently there is much speculation among gold bugs around the world on the topic of gold backwardation. Spot ...

Backwardation signals that futures prices are now below near term levels, reflecting cautious forward pricing and weakened expectations among institutional traders. The structure often emerges during ...

The CME bitcoin annualised basis has fallen to -2.35% its deepest backwardation since the extreme dislocations of the FTX collapse in November 2022, when the basis briefly approached -50%, according ...