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The term structure of commodity prices describes the relationships between the spot price and futures prices for different delivery dates. It summarises all the information needed to hedge positions on the physical market, to undertake arbitrage operations or to support investment decisions.

Term structure models are applied in two important fields: dynamic hedging strategies - when short-term positions on the futures market are used to hedge long-term positions on the physical

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