Commodities

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Commodities Editors Choice Middle Office and VaR Training Course Outlines

Cross selling treasury products – Pitching commodity trading ideas to corporate clients

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6 mins read

Price volatility in crude oil, gold, silver, cotton, sugarcane, wheat and cereals has created an unprecedented opportunity for corporate relationship managers to cross sell treasury products to their institutional, trading, manufacturing and high net worth customers. We present below a framework for empowering client facing treasury teams to go out and cross sell high value, high margin trading concepts to clients by educating customers about their exposures and some of the solutions available to reduce the risk associated with the same exposures.

Commodities Middle Office and VaR Training Course Outlines

Commodity Trading Course Package

5 mins read

By the end of the two day workshop participants will be able to:
a)      Appreciate the linkage between commodity markets (precious metals, crude oil), currencies and rates
b)      Trace the impact of monetary policy announcements on commodity markets
c)       Explain trading strategies using futures, options and exotic products
d)      Understand trading triggers
e)      Derive risk limits for counterparty exposures

Commodities Crude Oil Editors Choice Gold

Understanding Crude Oil. A model for dissecting crude oil

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1 min read

Our summarized outlook was simple. Oil demand growth is likely to remain stunted given high prices and a number of major issues structurally which will remove any impetus for an oil price shock similar to the one that we witnessed in 2008. With additional supply coming back to the market from Iraq and Libya, Europe struggling with the fallout of the PIGS crisis and the slowdown in China the demand situation was not likely to be rosy.