prices for winter wheat futures soaring as escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine stoke fears about disruption of key food exports and adding to already heightened inflationary pressures in the…
Whilst the instinctive trade at the moment would be to go long on the stuff of Russia, because sanctions would effectively remove their supply from global markets, that trade also…
Bitcoin is failing to live up to its role as a hedge against inflation, falling alongside stocks as escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine sapped risk appetite.
Beneath the exchange-traded products and the islands of crypto innovation in cities like Berlin and Tallinn lies a continent that has an at best uneasy relationship with digital assets.
Over the past week, the on-again, off-again prospect of Russia invading Ukraine has roiled markets, sending the price of oil and gold rising and falling as regularly as the tide.