Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

This review shows how commodities fared against asset classes in 2025, using BCOM data to examine volatility spikes, tariff ...

Liz Manning has researched, written, and edited trading, investing, and personal finance content for years, following her time working in institutional sales, commercial banking, retail investing, ...

Explore the differences, similarities, advantages, and risks of equity and commodity investments. Understand their ...

Under the CEA, the CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction over transactions in “commodity interests,”[9] meaning that only the CFTC can promulgate regulations as well as prosecute fraud and manipulation in ...

Investors often turn to commodities as a hedge against rising inflation. But given evolving market dynamics and the sharp stress periods of recent years, should investors revisit their ideas around ...

Ether can simultaneously be both a security and commodity, meaning it lies under the regulatory scope of two federal agencies, according to former Commodities Futures Trading Commission Commissioner ...

The latest bipartisan crypto bill would give the CFTC new tools and authorities to regulate digital commodities, with a focus on market integrity and consumer protection. On August 3, 2022, a ...