Managing Commodity Risk: Using Commodity Futures and Options (Kindle Edition)
Most businesses will face commodity risk in some form. It is how the company manages this risk that will help to determine the success of the firm. In this highly practical book, John J. Stephens explains in a clear concise manner the best techniques for managing such risks. Aimed at the ordinary businessperson, this book is a practical primer for those who wish to manage and minimise the risk to their industry, through instruments such as commodity futures, without wishing to have the technical knowledge of professional financiers. This book provides the ideal starting point for the good manager not only to minimise commodity risk but to gain benefit also.
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Commodity risk and commodity futures are not merely used by financial traders, they can also be an invaluable tool for the everyday business manager. This book examines, in a balanaced and objective fashion, the extent to which the commodity futures markets can be used to the (more…)