Traders asking for help amid crushing volatility

The world’s dealers of raw materials are the lubricant of global commerce, and when there’s a lot of friction, as there has been since 2020, you need a lot of grease. For the traders, that translates into dollars; lots of them.

ON the face of it, a time of “pandemic, drought, wildfires, civil unrest, and now war in Europe” doesn’t sound like a great business environment. Unless you’re a commodity trader.

The world’s dealers of raw materials are the lubricant of global commerce, and when there’s a lot of friction, as there has been since 2020, you need a lot of grease.