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Explained: How are LME contracts settled?

What do we mean when we talk about physical settlement or cash settlement? How do LME cash-settled futures differ from our physically settled contracts? In this video, we’ll look at settlement in more detail.

Explained: How are cash-settled futures priced?

In this video, we look at the key prices used in LME cash-settled futures and how these prices are discovered.

Explained: Hedging with cash-settled futures

In this third video of the series, we look at how cash-settled futures can be used to hedge price risk to mitigate against volatility.

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