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How Commodity Prices Move Mining Company Shares
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How Commodity Prices Move Mining Company Shares

Mining shares are often treated as a leveraged way to invest in commodities. Yet the relationship is more complex than it first appears: higher commodity prices can transform a miner’s earnings, but costs, debt, operational performance and market expectations ultimately determine how much value reaches shareholders.

ET&A Research · 5 August 2026

Gold: Portfolio Insurance or an Expensive Momentum Trade?
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Gold: Portfolio Insurance or an Expensive Momentum Trade?

Gold is frequently presented as protection against inflation, currency weakness and geopolitical instability. But after a period of exceptional gains—and considerable volatility—investors must decide whether they are buying genuine portfolio insurance or simply following an asset whose price has already risen.

ET&A Research · 5 August 2026

Why Capital-Intensive Businesses Are Back in Fashion
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Why Capital-Intensive Businesses Are Back in Fashion

For years, investors favoured companies that could grow without owning factories, infrastructure or large physical assets. But energy constraints, supply-chain insecurity and the AI investment boom are shifting value back towards businesses that build, manufacture and operate the systems on which the modern economy depends.

ET&A Research · 28 July 2026

Why Markets Can Rally During a Geopolitical Crisis
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Why Markets Can Rally During a Geopolitical Crisis

Markets often react less to the crisis itself than to what investors expect will happen next. Hopes of a ceasefire, policy support or lower future prices can outweigh the immediate uncertainty.

ET&A Research · 24 July 2026

Is the World Becoming Too Vulnerable to Supply Shocks?
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Is the World Becoming Too Vulnerable to Supply Shocks?

The global economy has become extraordinarily efficient at moving goods, energy and components across borders. The problem is that it may have sacrificed too much resilience in the process.

ET&A Research · 24 July 2026