The Origins of Andran and the Future of Derivatives
The origins of andron were i think most people to greet pretty legitimate and that what they're doing is essential service. They are involved in brokering deals between natural gas fields and the producers there who want to sell it to customers like utilities or industrial chemical chemical plans That need to use the natural gas to make things like fertilizer. The russian invasion of crayon disrupting the natural gas markets this year affects the production of urea which is nh3, then it gets built into fertilizerwhich affects the agricultural supply chain anyway. It was fascinating how that pattern is still true today where these a lot of these companies if you look at different type of energy but it's more
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The exchange of goods and services has existed since the earliest forms of civilization, from simple barter arrangements at the local town square to Phoenician traders navigating the Mediterranean with goods from Europe and North Africa. Today, however, the scope of exchange is truly massive, with online commerce coming to dominate nearly all segments of retail, and the scale encompassing transoceanic trade routes totaling 11 billion tons in maritime cargoes in 2021. Underpinning all this lies an extremely complex web of producers, shippers, pipelines, warehouses, and commodities traders that include the massive concerns such as Koch Industries in energy and Glencore in metals, with over 100,000 employees each. Billions of dollars have been made and lost in commodities futures, and as volatility continues to disrupt prices of everyday items from gasoline to grain, the trend of ever tighter global trade integration seen since the end of the Cold War may start to unravel as regional blocks choose to have closer and more reliable supply chains.
