Now, THIS was fun...What are Commodities with Listen Money Matters Podcast

Published in: DeCarley Trading PressCarley Garner, an experienced futures broker, was a guest on the Listen Money Matters podcast
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What are Commodities?

Commodities are an asset class like stocks, bonds, or real estate. The reason many of us aren’t familiar with them is that unlike those other classes, commodities are not geared towards individual investors. The entities buying commodities are more often companies who need commodities to operate; airlines buying oil commodities to hedge against high prices is an example.

Commodities are not manufactured things like cars but things from the natural world like grains, minerals, or oranges.

There are soft and hard commodities. Soft commodities are things that are grown like cocoa, corn or cotton. Hard commodities are things that are mined from the earth like oil or copper.