COMMODITIES IN DETAIL
LIVESTOCK/ MEAT TRADING
Livestock & meat is a very popular commodity where futures are traded in live cattle, feeder cattle, pork bellies and lean hogs. Feeder cattle are so called because they do not carry enough condition to make the slaughter grade; live cattle are of slaughter grade as are lean hogs. Pork bellies are as the name suggests, the belly of a pig. Pork bellies are frozen and can be kept for quite a long time & still used as a source of food. Factors that influence the price of cattle & pork are feed costs (Hogs are fed mainly on corn), consumer demand, disease & weather.
COMPANY NEWSs
SPREAD BETTING ON COMMODITIES
With the rising prices of primary commodities such as oil and food, the ever increasing price of Gold etc. many people started looking more and more into the commodities trading as a way to make money easily.
Spread betting on these markets means that any profits are tax free and there is greater flexibility over the size of the exposure than there is when trading the futures contracts directly, which highly increases the probable gains from an investment.



