Desmond Cole

You can invest in agricultural commodities through two indirect vehicles — exchange-traded funds and agribusiness shares — or directly through futures contracts. Most beginners … Read more

Learning how to invest in natural gas for beginners comes down to three routes: buy a fund that tracks gas prices, buy shares in … Read more

There are four practical ways to invest in tin: buy shares in the companies that mine it, trade LME tin futures, hold a commodity … Read more

There is no shortcut to knowing how to invest in coal stocks: open a brokerage account with margin switched off, separate thermal coal producers … Read more

To invest in timber and forestry, you buy exposure to forest land and the trees growing on it. You can do that five ways: … Read more

You can invest in nickel through exchange-traded funds, individual mining company shares, futures and options contracts, or physical metal — and the honest answer … Read more

You can get oil exposure without touching a barrel by owning something that tracks the crude price: an oil ETF, a futures contract, an … Read more

Rare earth metals matter to technology because seventeen elements, the fifteen lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium, combine magnetic, optical and electrochemical behaviour that nothing … Read more