Original scientific paper

Comparisons of commodity and equity markets

Dušan Baran ; Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, Slovakia
Martin Ranuša ; University of Central Europe in Skalica, Slovakia

Abstract

The results of the development of science and technology in the field of information technology, significantly affected the trading on the financial markets. Trading on world stock exchanges are essentially continuously. Time intervals of these trading are carried out by the microseconds. Information necessary to trade in financial and commodity exchanges, are freely available to the general public. On the basis of the investment process, in addition to institutional investors in may, involved also small investors and population. In the article, deal with comparing the commodity and stock market. The comparison is processed from the point of view of performance of the stocks and commodity futures and correlation between them.

Keywords

commodity market; commodity exchange; investors; derivates; futures, commodity index; volatility; comparison; liquidity; precious metals; agriculture; exchanges; inflation

Hrčak ID:

132506

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/132506

Publication date:

1.6.2013.

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