Sentences with phrase «observation about commodities»

Interesting observation about commodities.

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This is similar to the argument Benoit Mandelbrot and Nassim Taleb made about Mandelbrot's observation that fluctuations in markets for shares, futures, and commodities are not normally distributed but have fat tails: this means that standard risk - management practices (e.g., stress - testing portfolios) will fail to account properly for extremely unlikely events.