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In this chapter we outline the basic concepts and instruments related to commodities. For a more detailed introduction, we refer to [22, 75].

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    Actually, the diversification is limited for most of the commodity indices. Energy often represents a heavy weight.

  2. 2.

    Source: extracted from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Website.

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Chan, R.H., Guo, Y.Z., Lee, S.T., Li, X. (2019). Commodities. In: Financial Mathematics, Derivatives and Structured Products. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3696-6_5

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