Explore the meaning of "basis" in finance, focusing on its tax implications and role in investment transaction. Learn how it ...

Binance debuted perpetual contracts tied to gold and silver settled in USDT, making Tether’s stablecoin the de facto ...

Michael Selig, the nominee to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, was pressed at his confirmation hearing Wednesday to weigh in on the debate around prediction markets.

CME raises silver futures margins again, pressuring leveraged traders as prices hover near multi-year highs. Historical parallels from 1980 and 2011 raise fears of forced deleveraging and sharp ...

UBS SDIC Fund had become increasingly concerned that investors could be exposed to heavy losses should a record-breaking bull market suddenly turn.

When the spread between futures and spot gets distorted, it suggests there is dislocation in the market. With the massive surge in inventory, the open interest relative to physical stocks is actually ...

Silver futures are contracts for buying/selling silver at a future date. Investing in silver can be via physical forms, stocks, ETFs, or futures. Silver futures offer potential high returns but carry ...

For a long time, traders and investors treated perpetual futures, or "perps," as one of the riskiest instruments, characterized by high leverage and constant volatility. But as trading matured, those ...

U.S. futures for the S&P 500 were flat and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were flat. Changes in futures do not necessarily predict movements after the opening bell. In Europe, the Stoxx ...

The most actively traded Feb polyester staple fiber futures contract opens 36yuan/mt lower at 6,432yuan/mt on Dec 22 evening on Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange. [RISK DISCLAIMER] All opinions, news, ...

I last wrote about the iShares MSCI Global Silver and Metals Miners ETF (SLVP) on Seeking Alpha on April 17, 2025, after the U.S. Trump administration announced its “Liberation Day” tariff policy that ...

Gold prices reached a record high on Monday, surging past the $4,400-an-ounce mark on growing expectations of further U.S. interest-rate cuts next year and heightened geopolitical risks spurring ...