He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). A commodity swap is a type of derivative contract where two parties agree to exchange cash flows dependent on the price of an underlying commodity.

What should you do to manage this future price opportunity? Consider a commodity swap, suggests Andrew Tasker, markets vice president for Rabobank. A commodity swap is used to hedge against ...

Swaps come in many shapes and sizes, including commodity swaps, currency swaps, debt-equity swaps, and credit default swaps among others. One party may find the need to exit the swap prior to the ...

In the dynamic global commodity markets, producers and consumers of energy, base metals, precious metals, and soft commodities encounter a multitude of challenges. Volatile prices, geopolitical ...

Big energy companies like Royal Dutch Shell and commodity merchants like Cargill have a simple argument in pushing back against looming new swap market rules: We're not a bank, so don't regulate us ...

A managing director at a US swap dealer calls the data “completely unusable ... and a former general counsel of US regulator the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) admits it hasn’t lived up ...

Different types of swaps exist, including fixed-for-floating rate swaps, currency swaps, and commodity swaps. When it comes to interest rates, when rates are rising, people with floating rate ...

The same 28 commodities that will be under mandatory position limits for futures and options, will also be under limits for physical commodity swaps. It will include clearing and trade execution ...

Both companies are now racing to carve a new advantage by recasting many, if not most, cleared energy swaps as futures — thereby making them exempt from new Commodity Futures Trading Commission ...

HOUSTON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Big energy companies like Royal Dutch Shell and commodity merchants like Cargill [CARG.UL] have a simple argument in pushing back against looming new swap market rules ...