What's to like about precious metals in 2025? Here are the five hard commodities to make room for in your portfolio. Silver is emerging as the standout metal of 2025. "Industrial demand is ...

These tangible assets are often divided into two main categories: hard commodities and soft commodities. Hard commodities are natural resources that are extracted or mined, such as oil ...

The overall quant rating is not an average of the factor grades listed. Instead, it gives greater weight to the metrics with the strongest predictive value.

Investors break down commodities into two categories -- hard and soft. Hard commodities require mining or drilling to find. Soft commodities are grown or ranched. There are four main types of ...

Hard commodities are natural resources that must be mined or extracted. They include metals and energy commodities. Soft commodities refer to agricultural products and livestock. The key ...

3 ways to invest in commodities. Investors often think about two broad categories of commodities. Hard commodities are natural resources, such as metals like gold, copper and iron ore, and energy ...

And this is where commodity ETFs come in. In times of uncertainty and elevated volatility, many investors turn to hard assets to hedge against possible threats to their portfolios. "As demand for ...

Produced by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) with advisory and content contributions from WWF, the report "Hard Truths" examines the case for investors to understand and mitigate soft commodities ...