Usually when “contango” comes up in a markets story, one reaction might be “Huh?” while another might be “Where’s my oil tanker?” That’s because contango and its sister term, backwardation, are used ...

I concluded an April 16, 2026, Barchart article on the crude oil futures market with the following: Expect volatility in crude oil prices over the coming days, weeks, and perhaps months, depending on ...

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When investors trade futures contracts for oil, iron and wheat, they’re helping to establish the market prices for these key commodities. Commodities prices can fluctuate dramatically over short ...

The CME bitcoin annualised basis has fallen to -2.35% its deepest backwardation since the extreme dislocations of the FTX collapse in November 2022, when the basis briefly approached -50%, according ...

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During the day, the LME structure shifted from Contango to Backwardation. A small number of smelters were heard to plan to export, offering Shanghai bonded delivery premiums around $65-70/mt. Some ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The gold market has always been partial to “carry trades”. But in the post 2008 world the nature of the ...

Usually when “contango” comes up in a markets story, one reaction might be “Huh?” while another might be “Where’s my oil tanker?” That’s because contango and its sister term, backwardation, are used ...

July 29, 2013 - In an interview on July 8th in King World News I noted how gold that day had slipped into backwardation. Since then I have read a lot of commentary on various websites about ...

Bitcoin BTC $78,114.42 futures on the Chicago-based CME exchange slipped for a few days into "backwardation," a condition sometimes observed in commodities markets where prices on near-month contracts ...