Through arbitrage and flexibility, traders balance markets by smoothing price spreads, storing excess supply, and rerouting ...

The commodity price cycle tug-of-war between supply and demand, regularly shaping the markets for raw materials like metals, grains, and energy. Those who successfully navigate the commodity price ...

HEIDI CREBO-REDIKER is a Senior Fellow in the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

It’s precisely because of that persistence that we still have coffee available in years when prices have fallen to unsustainably low levels.