Commodity prices often move based on escalating geopolitical tensions, as they did last spring in the wake of surgical strikes on Iran by Israel and supported by the United States. More recently, ...

Commodity ETFs simplify investing in metals, energy, and agriculture without physical ownership. Some commodity ETFs avoid K-1 tax forms, streamlining tax filing for investors. Using commodity ETFs ...

Buying stocks of commodity producers involves an additional risk because they’re leveraged to the price of the underlying commodity. Purchasing mutual funds or ETFs that buy commodity futures is the ...

In this series on portfolio basics, I’ll explain some of the fundamentals of putting together sound portfolios. I’ll start with some of the most widely used types of investments and walk through what ...