Summer 2022 Archives - Page 2 of 2

September 1, 2022 by

ECONOMIST’S EDGE
The Day Oil Markets Reacted to Omicron

By Bluford Putnam, Ph.D., Chief Economist, CME Group and Member of the JPMCC’s Research Council; and Arthur Yu, Manager, Data Science, CME Group

The authors put in context how the oil markets responded to the Omicron news shock in late November 2021, noting how the markets followed a pattern seen on other event risk days. They also provide useful real-time metrics for interpreting a market’s response during eventful periods.

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September 1, 2022 by

Update from the Research Director of the J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities

By Jian Yang, Ph.D., CFA, J.P. Morgan Endowed Research Chair, JPMCC Research Director, and Discipline Director and Professor of Finance and Risk Management, University of Colorado Denver Business School

In this report, Dr. Jian Yang provides updates about recent JPMCC research activities. In particular, Dr. Yang discusses (a) the JPMCC’s closer collaboration with the World Bank on applied commodity research; (b) a study investigating the price discovery function of China’s crude oil futures contracts; (c) media interviews on commodity prices and inflation; and (d) the JPMCC’s 5th Annual International Commodities Symposium.

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September 1, 2022 by

An Overview of the Lithium Supply Chain

By Thomas Brady, Ph.D., CoBank Executive Director, J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities, University of Colorado Denver Business School; and Managing Director and Editor, Commodities Report, Capitalight Research, Canada

This digest article provides an overview of the global lithium supply chain from the mining of ore through the processing of intermediate compounds to the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries. Driven by increasing global demand for batteries, the search for new mine supply sources and processing techniques alongside the evolution of battery chemistries, this supply flow is guaranteed to change in the future.

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September 1, 2022 by

Update from the CoBank Executive Director of the J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities

This article provides a brief update from Dr. Thomas Brady on the many events and initiatives that have taken place this year, including (a) the addition of four new Industry Advisory Council members; (b) the appointment of four new GCARD Editorial Advisory Board members; (c) the Center’s outreach & applied research, which has included energy transition webinars with the Commodity Trading Alumni Association (of Geneva, Switzerland); (d) the redesign of graduate and undergraduate courses; (e) the JPMCC’s professional education courses, including the Center’s partnership with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the “Leadership in Commodity Trading & Supply Networks” Executive Program; and (f) the JPMCC’s 5th Annual International Commodities Symposium. The symposium, in turn, was co-organized by Dr. Jian Yang, CFA, the JPMCC’s Research Director, and Dr. Brady with Erica Hyman, the JPMCC’s Assistant Director, providing logistical coordination.

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