The oil market continues to send mixed signals, with a pending U.S.-China trade deal and potential production cut extension--or deepening--by OPEC counterbalanced by rising crude inventories and an ...

Ether (ETH) bulls like a positive spread between its spot and ETH futures prices because the so-called contango reflects optimism about a higher rate in the future. But as of Aug. 1, the Ethereum ...

Crude oil's futures curve will likely switch to contango this summer from the current backwardation as global inventory is expected to build which would ease supply tightness, Bank of America energy ...

Most commodity ETFs are in a downtrend. The (small) iShares Commodity Curve Carry Strategy ETF is an exception. It’s an optimized commodity ETF that focuses on commodities with the greatest degree of ...

The prospect of a contango is casting a shadow over oil markets, with the entire 2026 WTI futures curve now trading below $60 per barrel—beneath breakeven levels for most new shale wells.

Bitcoin BTC $87,123.65 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 ...

No doubt about it: the Covid-19 outbreak has wreaked havoc on worldwide markets. While demand surges, albeit raggedly, for safe haven assets such as gold, equities have been slammed. A double whammy ...

An unusual condition known as "backwardation" that has developed recently in the bitcoin futures market should be seen as a sign of weak demand for the cryptocurrency on the part of big institutional ...