Commodities Futures Trading in India Indian markets have recently thrown open a new avenue for retail investors and traders to participate: commodity derivatives. For those who want to diversify their portfolios beyond shares‚ bonds and real estate‚ commodities is the best option. What is commodity trading? It’s an age-old phenomenon. Modern markets came up in the late 18th century‚ when farming began to be modernised. Though the trade’s mechanisms have changed‚ the basics are still the same
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History of Derivatives: A Few Milestones EFTA Seminar on Regulation of Derivatives Markets‚ Zurich‚ 3 May 2012 Steve Kummer (research and redaction) and Christian Pauletto (concept and speech delivery) Policy and Trade in Services Division State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO Federal Department of Economic Affairs FDEA Introduction This presentation contains a selection of records and events that constitute a part of the history of derivatives. It relates how derivatives date back
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INTRODUCTION Financial derivatives have crept into the nation ’s popular economic vocabulary on a wave of recent publicity about serious financial losses suffered by municipal governments‚ well-known corporations‚ banks and mutual funds that had invested in these products. Congress has held hearings on derivatives and financial commentators have spoken at length on the topic. Derivatives‚ however remain a type of financial instrument that few of us understand and fewer still fully appreciate‚ although
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A PROJECT REPORT ON COMMODITY MARKET Project Submitted in partial fulfillment of Post Graduate Diploma in Management Submitted by: PANKAJ KUMAR Roll No. 528 Batch 2007-2009 Under the guidance of: Dr. Shashidharan Kutty - Dy. Director (Banking‚ Finance & Insurance) 2 S.No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 INDEX Introduction Commodity Commodity Market Structure of Commodity Market Different Types of Commodity Traded Turnover of Indian
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payments. 2. What do hedge funds do: (a) Hedge? (b) Speculate? (c) Arbitrage? (d) None of the above Answer: (a)‚ (b)‚ (c) 3. During the growing season a corn farmer sells short corn futures contracts in an amount equal to her crop. If after harvesting and selling her crop she maintains the contracts‚ she is then considered a: (a) Hedger (b) Speculator (c) Arbitrager (d) None of the above Answer: (b)
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INTRODUCTION: THE REASON TO GO FOR DERIVATIVES S. (http://www.ddegjust.ac.in/studymaterial/mba/fm407.pdf) to achieve a required rate of return with minimum risk on your investments; to overcome or at least minimize the high financial risk arising out of the fluctuating of the interest rates‚ currency exchange rate and stock prices; FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES Derivatives: This is a security‚ whose price is dependent upon or derived from one or more underlying assets. The derivative itself is merely a contract between two or more
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Online Instructor’s Solutions Manual to accompany Fundamentals of Derivatives Markets First Edition Robert L. McDonald Northwestern University Prepared by Mark Cassano Copyright 2009‚ Pearson Prentice Hall. All Rights Reserved. Executive Editor: Donna Battista Assistant Development Editor: Sara Holliday Production Editor: Heather McNally Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education‚ Inc.‚ Upper Saddle River‚ New Jersey‚ 07458. Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. This publication
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Commodities are objects that satisfy human needs and wants. Commodities are the fundamental units of capitalism‚ a form of economy based on the intense accumulation of such objects. The basic criterion for assessing a commodity’s value is its essential usefulness‚ what it does in the way of satisfying need and wants. This usefulness is its use-value‚ a property intrinsic to the commodity. Commodities also possess an exchange-value‚ the relative value of a commodity in relation to other commodities
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Hedging Strategies Using Futures Tutorial 3 - Practice Questions Problem 3.1. Under what circumstances are (a) a short hedge and (b) a long hedge appropriate? A short hedge is appropriate when a company owns an asset and expects to sell that asset in the future. It can also be used when the company does not currently own the asset but expects to do so at some time in the future. A long hedge is appropriate when a company knows it will have to purchase an asset in the future. It can also be used
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ABSTRACT Commodity market is gaining attention worldwide as a best alternative investment options. As the demands for various commodities increase‚ markets are steady and the fluctuations are predictable. It is also easier to manage and fetch good yields‚ if done properly. However‚ the investor needs to monitor commodities market on regular basis at the right time to achieve his investment objectives. The global meltdown has resulted in escalating precious metals such as gold and silver in gaining
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