Jason Zweig, Wall Street Journal, writes on commodities as an investment, here... ”...commodities are “assets that can be extracted, drilled,
Put buying, but extremely light volume in WTI options…
Yesterday’s option volume was extremely light but we did see some Jan puts trade... Here is a summary from the CME... Note the low volume, under
Goldman, election concerns, options’ skew… Bloomberg
Joanna Ossinger, Bloomberg, has a nice piece on the put (over calls) skew in equity markets for 2020, here...
Record low Euro Vol… Bloomberg
Here is the link... Here is the vol chart:
Japan’s GDP adjusted for population… WSJ
Not too bad... The link is here...
Ethanol has Forsaken Us… The Atlantic
Mario Loyola makes his case against the corn-ethanol program at The Atlantic, here... “Renewable biofuels are not necessarily doomed. If advanced
Some good OPEC chat from Julian Lee, Bloomberg
Julian Lee has a good piece on the upcoming OPEC meeting, here... The opening paragraph sums it up nicely: ”In less than two weeks, OPEC and its
Updated vol chart, WTI…
Option volume in WTI options (LO) is down sharply from last year, averaging 129,509, -22.9%, through October... Friday's volume was only 52,087 as we
Hedge fund assets decline… Bloomberg
In a story that highlights the closing of another hedge fund run by Louis Bacon, Mark Gilbert, Bloomberg, summarizes the industry, here: ”In total,






