The COVID-19 pandemic and speculation in energy, precious metals, and agricultural futures

Since its establishment, Crude Palm Oil futures contract (FCPO) has been used to directly hedge its physical crude palm oil (CPO). However, due to the excessive speculation activities on crude palm oil futures market, it has been said to be no longer an effective hedging tool to mitigate the price risk of its underlying physical market. This triggers the need for market players to find possible alternatives to ensure that the hedging role can be executed effectively. Thus this investigation attempts to examine whether other inter-related grains and oil seed futures contracts could serve as effective cross-hedging mechanisms for the CPO. Weekly data of inter-related futures contracts from Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) and Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) are employed to cross hedge the physical crude palm oil prices. The study starts from 2006 until 2016. Empirical results indicate that FCPO is still the best futures contract for hedging purposes while Chicago Soybean (CBOTBO) provides second best alternative if cross-hedging is considered. Keywords: Crude palm oil, Crude palm oil futures, Cross Hedging, Optimal Hedge Ratio, Effective Hedging

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Eco-Friendly Recycling Potential of Microwave Melting for the Recovery of Useful and Precious Metals from E-Waste

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Ambientum ◽

10.24193/subbambientum.2018.2.04 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 63 (2) ◽

pp. 39-52

Author(s):

Daniela Violeta Dumitrescu ◽

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Vasile Soare ◽

Ionuţ Constantin ◽

Marian Burada ◽

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Keyword(s):

Precious Metals ◽

Recycling Potential

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MAGNETO-LIQUID SEPARATORS FOR PROCESSING FINE-GRAINED ORES OF NON-FERROUS RARE AND PRECIOUS METALS

MINING INFORMATIONAL AND ANALYTICAL BULLETIN ◽

10.25018/0236-1493-2017-12-30-53-61 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 12 (30) ◽

pp. 53-61

Author(s):

A.A. Solodenko ◽

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A.B. Solodenko ◽

S.I. Evdokimov ◽

Yu.G. Klykov ◽

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Keyword(s):

Precious Metals ◽

Fine Grained

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The Determinants of Capital Adequacy Ratio: The Case of the Vietnamese Banking System in the Period 2011-2015

VNU Journal of Science Economics and Business ◽

10.25073/2588-1108/vnueab.4070 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ngoc Anh Nguyen

Keyword(s):

Banking System ◽

Precious Metals ◽

Capital Adequacy ◽

The Other ◽

Total Asset ◽

Data Set ◽

Hand Size ◽

Net Interest Margin ◽

Capital Adequacy Ratio ◽

Positive Effect

The analysis of a data set of observation for Vietnamese banks in period from 2011 - 2015 shows how Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) is influenced by selected factors: asset of the bank SIZE, loans in total asset LOA, leverage LEV, net interest margin NIM, loans lost reserve LLR, Cash and Precious Metals in total asset LIQ. Results indicate based on data that NIM, LIQ have significant effect on CAR. On the other hand, SIZE and LEV do not appear to have significant effect on CAR. Variables NIM, LIQ have positive effect on CAR, while variables LLR and LOA are negatively related with CAR.

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How to make Russia a prosperous industrial country (about the role of the oil production and refining complex)

Mezhdunarodnaja jekonomika (The World Economics) ◽

10.33920/vne-04-2007-03 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 22-28

Author(s):

Yu. Kanataev

Keyword(s):

Precious Metals ◽

Oil Production ◽

Industrial Country ◽

Industrial Scale ◽

Deep Processing ◽

Domestic Technology ◽

Petrochemical Complex ◽

Russian Economy ◽

Further Development

The author, head of the Association of science-intensive enterprises having great experience in exploration of oil, precious metals, etc. in Russia and abroad (Austria, China, Israel, Ethiopia), first implemented on an industrial scale deep processing of oil using domestic technology, discusses the problems of further development of the Russian economy through the prism of their solutions to the main industries — oil and petrochemical complex.

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