Trading News

The mobile app at Deriv has been redesigned to provide a cleaner, faster, and more intuitive trading experience. With its improved features, the app makes trading on the go smoother for both new and experienced users. Key Takeaways Onboarding Guide: Step-by-step instructions to help you get started quickly. Customizable Interface: Tailor your trading screen to […]

Rare earth metals are a group of 17 chemically similar elements that are critical to modern technology and industries.  Despite their name, they’re not truly “rare,” but their extraction and processing are complex, making them valuable and sometimes difficult to obtain.  This article goes into their properties, uses, and importance, along with the challenges they […]

Industrial metals power industries from construction to technology.  These commodities, extracted from the earth, refined, and traded globally, form the foundation of infrastructure, transportation, energy, and consumer goods.  Here we look at industrial metals, including their types, uses, market dynamics, and future trends.   Key Takeaways – Industrial Metals Global Demand Drivers – Industrial metals […]

Poker and financial markets have a number of similarities. Both require an understanding of risk and reward, and the ability to make decisions based on incomplete information (and often quickly and under pressure). You have a certain set of knowns (often small relative to the range of unknowns) and are looking for situations where you […]

Grains serve as a primary food source and a key input for livestock feed, biofuels, and industrial applications.  These soft commodities include wheat, corn, rice, barley, oats, and soybeans, among others.  Traders and investors in the grain markets have to take into account complex supply chains, weather volatility and climate events, as well as shifting […]

XTB has achieved a key milestone, securing regulatory approvals in Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as first reported by Finance Magnates. Key Takeaways XTB gained a PALN license from Bappebti, a ‘yellow tier’ body in our Regulation & Trust Rating, allowing it to offer stocks and ETFs. XTB also acquired Eagle Capital Futures in […]

Soft commodities are the agricultural products that nourish and clothe populations globally, and represent a unique and often volatile segment of the commodities market. Unlike hard commodities, which are extracted from the earth, softs are grown, harvested, and influenced by a variety of natural factors. This connection to the rhythms of nature, coupled with their […]

Bond yield decomposition is an analytical framework for understanding the underlying forces driving changes in interest rates. Dissecting nominal yields into their constituent components, we can understand market expectations regarding economic growth, inflation, and risk premia. This analysis is important because these macroeconomic factors drive a significant amount of financial asset prices.   Key Takeaways […]

Closed-End Funds (CEFs) are a type of investment fund that pools money from investors to buy a diversified portfolio of assets, such as stocks, bonds, real estate, or other securities.  Unlike mutual funds or ETFs (exchange-traded funds), CEFs have a fixed number of shares issued at their initial public offering (IPO) and are traded on […]

Ole Andreas Halvorsen has built Viking Global Investors into one of the world’s top hedge funds. Known for his low profile and precise strategies, Halvorsen and his firm manage approximately $48 billion, balancing between public equity investments and a significant private equity portfolio, a similar hybrid approach to other Tiger Cubs like Chase Coleman. With […]