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The HC Commodities Podcast — 331 episodes

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Sulphurous Times with Meena Chauhan

2

Sanctions Strait Talk with David Tannebaum

3

Commodity Trading’s Bumper Q1 with Archie Hunter

4

Escalation Impotence with Doomberg

5

Notes from the FT Global Commodities Summit with Paul Chapman

6

Announcements, Events and Q1 Reports

7

Europe’s Power Trading Outlook with Xavier Veillard

8

Tungsten with William Parry-Jones

9

Copper & Gold: Pricing the physical vs the narrative with Grant Sporre (Episode 300!)

10

The Iran War: the view from CERA Week with Nick Kumleben

11

Spice: The Commodities that Shaped the Modern World with Roger Crowley

12

Molecular Contagion with Jeff Currie

13

The Strait of Hormuz and Asia with Tom Reed

14

Gulf War 3 and Global Financial Crisis 2? Special with Nick Kumleben

15

US Energy Supply, Bottlenecks and Private Equity with Jason Downie

16

Emergency Pod: Gulf War III and Commodities

17

Repricing Power: How Clean Energy is Reshaping Global Power Markets, with Luca Pedretti

18

The Rystad House View and Notes From IE Week, with Claudio Galimberti

19

Techno-Barbarians at the Gate: AI is coming for your operating model with Eren Zekioglu

20

Food, Fuel & Weaponized: Soybeans with Walter Cronin

21

Important, Growing in Demand and Hard: Energy with Mike Howard

22

The Great Repricing with Jeff Currie

23

HC Group's Annual Review is Published (Download links in show notes)

24

The Geo-Politicization of Natural Gas

25

Competing to Trade with Roland Rechtsteiner

26

The Donroe Doctrine and Commodities (emergency podcast) with Nick Kumleben

27

Coffee & Cocoa's Wild Ride with Kona Haque

28

Seizures, Search Warrants, and Sanctions: The blockade of Venezuela’s Dark Fleet Webinar by Deep Blue Intelligence

29

The Big Picture with David Fyfe

30

The State of Oil with Homayoun Falakshahi

31

Trading in Asia with Iain Lawson

32

Wine with Nick Brewer

33

Will Ags Save Your Portfolio? With Jake Hanley

34

Trading: the hidden $3trillion dollar opportunity with Antti Belt

35

Schism & Domination: Founding Trafigura & Glencore: Mark Crandall Part 2

36

AVAILABLE NOW: Global Middle and Back Office Salary Report 2025

37

The Rise of Rich & The Founding of the Modern Trading House: Mark Crandall Part 1

38

Rivers of Money: A History of Oil Trading – Meet the Authors Live Event

39

HC Group’s Q3 Market Review - Talent Trends & Analysis in the Commodities Sector: Download Now

40

Salt, Cod and Commodities at the Center of History with Mark Kurlansky

41

A Post Fundamentals world? London Argus Conference Live Event with Saad Rahim, Nick Kumleben, David Fyfe and Kurt Chapman.

42

From Systematic Trading to Structural Edge with Hans Balgobin

43

Canadian Crude Production & Equities in Changing Times with Randy Ollenberger (Canadian Crude Oil Conference Live Event)

44

Disputes, Arbitration and Navigating a Fractious Commodities World with Alex de Gramont

45

Planning for the Unplannable with Savvas Manousos

46

Commodities: A View from Wall St with Shaia Hosseinzadeh

47

The Rivers of Money with Colin Bryce

48

Elements of Influence: Yttrium, Rhenium and Graphite with Ellie Saklatvala

49

Doomberg Unleashed

50

Chip War: How semi-conductors became the new oil with Chris Miller (Summer Repeat)

51

Transacting on Hard Mode: lawyering in the energy transition with Daniel Anziska

52

The Electrified Battlefront: energy, critical minerals and defense with Joe Bryan

53

War and Wheat: Navigating markets during global conflict with Dennis Voznesenski

54

HC Group's Q2 Market Review

55

Lithium’s Hard Year with Caspar Rawles

56

Building Commodity Supply Chains in Trump’s America with Peter Stahley

57

Equity Investing in Commodities with Matt Zabloski

58

Energy & AI with the IEA’s Thomas Spencer and Siddarth Singh

59

The Commodities Trilemma with Clay Seigle

60

Live Event: Navigating Uncertainty - Trends and Risks in Commodity Trade

61

Credit Risk in Uncertain Times with Jan-Peter Onstwedder

62

Renewable Natural Gas Now with Ben Kruger & Warren Feather

63

The Oil Market: OPEC+, Tariffs and Recession with Matt Smith

64

America's Critical Minerals Dilemma with Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes

65

The Trump Administration’s Global Energy & Commodities Policy with Robert Johnston

66

Tariffs, Metals and Force Majeure with Guy Winter

67

Navigating Trump 2.0: Part 2 - Trading Cognitive Dissonance with Nick Kumleben

68

Navigating Trump 2.0: Part 1 - Signal vs Noise with Nick Kumleben

69

Talent Intelligence with Amelia Chahal

70

Challenging Energy Narratives with Jarand Rystad

71

China and Oil with Tom Reed

72

Notes from The FT Commodities Global Summit 2025: Uncertainty, Security and Opportunity

73

Powering the Data Center Arms Race with Adam Mirick

74

ESG is dead…Long Live ESG! with Anastasia Kuskova

75

The Democratization of Oil Trading with Greg Newman

76

Challenge, Crisis and Leadership in Asset-Backed Trading with Savvas Manousos and Niels Henrik Lindegaard

77

Argus Crude Summit: Shifting landscape of crude oil trading with Peter Keavey and Paul Chapman

78

Building an Asset-Backed Trading Platform with Savvas Manousos and Niels Henrik Lindegaard

79

LPG Trading with Jack Nugent

80

Peak Gasoline, Fuel Supply and EVs with Doug Haugh

81

Seed Oils, Biofuels, Proteins and Politics with Walter Cronin

82

Tea with Jem McDowall

83

Building the now indispensable Trading Platform with Talis Bennett-Verschure

84

The Dark Fleet with David Tannenbaum

85

2024 Reflections, Thanks and a look forward to 2025

86

The Price of Time with Edward Chancellor (Re-Release)

87

AI, Coding and Changing Skill-Sets in Commodities with Daf Davies

88

Fusion Power with Jay Brister

89

Power Metal with Vince Beiser

90

Forecasting the Weather with Matt Lanza

91

Changing EU Policy & Energy Trading with Bart Verest

92

The Metals Markets in 2024 and Beyond with David Wilson

93

The HC Commodities Podcast Live Event: Commodities Trade in Volatile Times

94

COP29: Article 6 and Transforming the Carbon Markets with Nick Marshall

95

Protectionism with Alex Tuckett

96

How Batteries are Changing Power Markets with Casey Keller

97

Punishing Putin with Stephanie Baker

98

US Natural Gas Trading in a Global Market: Live Event hosted by Six One Commodities

99

Shale 4.0 with Matthew Bernstein

100

Coffee with Charlie Stephens

101

Strategy and AI with Dr. Seth Dobrin

102

Where are Oil Prices Headed? With Aldo Spanjer

103

The Brazilian Power Market with Adriana Waltrick

104

Regime Change in European Power and Gas Markets

105

SUMMER REPEAT The Hidden Demographic Problem for Commodities with Todd Thurman

106

Compliance & Enforcement in the Commodities Sector with Gerben Schreurs and Barry Vitou

107

Commodity Professionals: The people behind the trade with Jonathan Kingsman

108

The Complexity in the Energy Transition with Marco Raugei

109

The Super Charged Capex Cycle with Jeff Currie

110

Data Centers: engines of change in power markets with Eugene McGrane

111

Commodities in Portfolio Construction with Hussein Allidina

112

Hedging with Samuel Basi

113

Geographic Arbitrage with Michael Ferrari

114

The Unstoppable, Exponential Energy Transition with Kingsmill Bond

115

Russian Sanctions with Sarah Hunt

116

The Japanese Power Market with Xavier Veillard

117

Governmental Relations, Planning and Policy with Peter Stahley

118

Special: Enco Insights at 6 months with Bill Read

119

200 Episodes with Paul Chapman

120

Trade Finance in Uncertain Times with Kristofer Tremaine

121

Dry Freight, FFAs and Technology with Mads Frank Markussen

122

The Future of Switzerland as a Commodities Trading Hub: Live Event

123

The Carbon Markets with Ariel Perez

124

Notes from the FT Commodities Summit 2024

125

AI and Commodities with Felipe Elink Schuurman

126

Dedollarisation with Jonah Van Bourg

127

Special: The Baltimore Bridge Collapse

128

Uranium with John Cash

129

Virtual Barrels with Ilia Bouchouev

130

Are the markets forecastable? with Matteo Mazzoni

131

The Path Forward: Driving Diversity in the Trading Community

132

Re-release: Energy Transition & Geopolitics with Daniel Yergin

133

The Trading Future of Critical Minerals: HC Insider Podcast Live Event hosted by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

134

The World in a Grain: Sand with Vince Beiser

135

The UK's Pumpwatch Scheme with Gideon Carroll

136

Neodymium, Gallium & Hafnium with Ellie Saklatvala

137

Private Equity's role in the Energy Transition with John Skrinar

138

Data as a Strategic Asset with Jason Vogt

139

Cheap Peak Oil, Geopolitics and China’s plan with Doomberg

140

Singapore’s Role as a Key Commodities Trading Hub with Lee Pak Sing

141

The Evolution of Expert Networks

142

2023 Annual Review: The Centrality of Talent

143

The Future of Food & Ag with Robert Berendes

144

The Oil Market with David Wech

145

Enco Insights: Graphite

146

The Hidden Demographic Problem for Commodities with Todd Thurman

147

The Natural Gas Markets with Anne-Sophie Corbeau

148

Enco Insights: Commodity Traders Transacting in Stablecoins

149

Building Sustainable Agri Supply Chains with Robert Horster

150

Who Prices Lithium? with Simon Moores &Caspar Rawles

151

The Fund: Ray Dalio & Bridgewater Associates with Rob Copeland

152

Renewables: The Imperative for Discipline with Julie McLaughlin & Elizaveta Malashenko

153

The Evolution of the CTRM with Sameer Soleja

154

The Dark Cloud: The hidden costs of a digital world with Guillaume Pitron

155

Renewables, Natural Gas and Nukes with Adam Rozencwajg

156

The Lithium Triangle with Gabriel Rubacha

157

Solving Grey Hydrogen with Chad Mason

158

Q3 Market Review: Back to Normal? Trends and talent moves in commodities

159

The Cotton Market with Crawford Tatum

160

Co-Locating Energy Storage & Renewables with Brian Knowles

161

Who Really Prices Oil? HC Insider Podcast Live Event hosted by Onyx Capital

162

Taiwan’s Energy Security Challenge

163

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise & Staggering Fall with Zeke Faux

164

Chip War: How semiconductors became the new oil with Chris Miller

165

Commodity Supply Chain Challenges with Anton Posner

166

Biofuels on the Edge with Walter Cronin

167

The Rice Market with Lewis Williamson & Marvin Coleman

168

Ice: The Rise and Fall of a Hot Commodity with Amy Brady

169

Whale Oil: The Original Energy Transition with Eric Jay Dolin

170

Walls, Bridges & Dilemmas in the Energy Transition with Eirik Waerness

171

Changing Battery Chemistries & Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) with John Passalacqua and Isobel Sheldon

172

Special Announcement: Q2 Market Review: Blocatization & Deglobalization

173

Back to Ag Futures with Scott Irwin

174

Volatility with Stephen Roseme

175

SPACS, ESG 2.0, Mining & Investing in the Energy Transition with John Dowd

176

EU Policy, Strategy & The Critical Raw Materials Act with Julia Poliscanova

177

Food Inflation & The Agri Markets with Kona Haque

178

Live HC Insider Podcast Event: Brent Crude Oil

179

Commercial Real Estate, Rates & Renewables with Eugene McGrane

180

Coal Trading with Hayn Park

181

Interest Rates & Commodities: Live HC Insider Podcast Event

182

Commodities in a Deglobalizing World with Jeremy Shapiro

183

Commodity Indexes with Tim Kramer, JC Kneale & Preston Peacock

184

Commodity Markets Update: A View from the Top with Saad Rahim

185

Powering Heavy Industry with Manoli Yannaghas

186

The Energy Transition…delayed, with Mark Mills

187

Hedge Funds & Commodities with Tor Svelland

188

The Pathways to Decarbonize Transportation with Michael Barnard

189

Notes from the FT Commodities Summit 2023

190

The Energetic Problem with the Energy Transition with Adam Rozencwajg

191

SPECIAL: The Banking Crisis with Edward Chancellor

192

A Journey in Commodities with Paul Posoli

193

The LME Nickel Crisis with Jack Farchy

194

The History of a Scandal: Metallgesellschaft Revisited with Kevin O’Reilly

195

Tantalum… a story of insatiable demand with Hadley Natus

196

Oil Supply & Demand in 2030 with Joel Couse

197

The Case for Sustainable Aviation Fuel with Steve Mawer

198

The Price of Time with Edward Chancellor

199

Margin, Volatility & Supply in Retail Fuel with Doug Haugh: Part 2 – The Last Pump in Town

200

Margin, Volatility & Supply in Retail Fuel with Doug Haugh: Part 1

201

The Power of Waves with Jan Skjoldhammer

202

Oil & Gas Markets in 2023 with Paul Horsnell

203

The Fate of Rome: climate, disease and the end of an empire with Kyle Harper

204

Insects & Commodities with Charlie Drew

205

Investing in an Era of Climate Change with Bruce Usher

206

Nuclear Power & The Energy Crisis with Mycle Schneider

207

Metals in Transition: Copper, Aluminum and Steel with Charlie Durant & Sarah Macnaughton

208

Unlocking Titanium with Taso Arima

209

The Future of Gas Stations with Dan Munford

210

LNG: The New Marginal Fuel with Tamir Druz

211

The Super-Cycle Meets Interest Rates with Jeff Currie

212

Managing Volatility in the Meat Industry with Christie Chavis

213

Investing in Food & Ag Tech with Lindsay McCorkle

214

Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green with Henry Sanderson

215

Lithium: The New Oil with Lukasz Bednarski

216

Solar Flares (and how I learned to stop worrying about the bomb) with Edl Schamiloglu

217

Repurposing, Recycling and Trading Batteries with William Bergh and Eden Yates

218

Surviving the Anthropocene: climate change and humanity’s response with Dominic Boyer

219

The CFTC with Commissioner Summer Mersinger

220

The Rise of Alternative Financing in Commodities

221

Freeing Energy with Bill Nussey

222

The Gathering Storm in Europe with Gerard Reid and George Voloshin

223

Food & Energy: The Looming Crisis with Doomberg

224

The State of Upstream Oil with Morten Kelstrup

225

Unlocking Carbon Markets with Deanna Reitman, Eric Rubenstein & Lance Titus

226

The Rise of the UAE as the Next Commodity Trading Hub

227

Systemic Risk & Commodities with Craig Pirrong

228

Navigating the New Normal in Commodities with Sebastian Barrack, Ben Sutton, Matthew Rosetti and Summer Mersinger

229

Renewable Energy, Crypto and Flexible Load with John Belizaire

230

Algorithmic trading and Commodities with Stephen Roseme

231

The Funding Gap in Commodities with Nick O’Kane

232

The World’s Most Important Bean with Ivo Sarjanovic

233

Sanctions, Political Risk and the Commodities Sector with George Voloshin

234

The Financialization of Oil Markets & The Madness of Crowds with Greg Newman

235

The World of Electric Vehicles with Roger Atkins

236

Europe’s Energy Crisis with Gerard Reid

237

What the SEC Climate-Related Disclosures mean with Julie McLaughlin

238

Redlining Commodities with Jeff Currie

239

The Container Shipping Market with Peter Sand

240

Disorderly markets, Margin Calls & Doom Loops with Javier Blas

241

The Energy Crisis & Russia’s Invasion with Daniel Yergin

242

Digitization Reshaping Commodities (Reuters Webinar special)

243

The Voluntary Carbon Markets with Deanna Reitman

244

How Carbon Will Disrupt Commodities Markets with Eric Rubenstein

245

Hydrogen's Future with Erik Rakhou

246

SPECIAL UPDATE: The Invasion of Ukraine with Robert Bensh

247

Food: Demand, Inflation & the Agri Markets with Soren Schroder

248

The History & Future of Commodity Trading in Investment Banks with Kevin O'Reilly

249

Capital Markets & The Energy Transition with Arash Nazhad and Blake Best

250

Surviving and Thriving Trading natural gas with Bill Perkins

251

The Paradigm Shift in Mining with Roland Rechtsteiner

252

40 Classic Crude Oil Trades with Owain Johnson

253

Nuclear Power: perception versus reality with Mycle Schneider

254

Power Purchase Agreements: reassessing the risks behind renewable power’s growth engine with Werner Trabesinger

255

The Fertilizer Market: the intersection of commodities with Andres Santacruz

256

2021 In Review

257

Ukraine’s Energy Sector with Robert Bensh

258

The Battery Metals Supply Chain: Solutions & opportunities with Chris Berry

259

Revolutionizing Agriculture: machines, software and genetics

260

Commodities as Currencies: Traceability, Tokenization, G-Coin and beyond with Brent de Jong

261

Debating the Commodity Super-Cycle with Jeff Currie, Saad Rahim, Derek Sammann and Alex Booth

262

Sustainable Investment in Emerging Energy Markets with Francis Ugboma

263

The Commodity Financing Crunch with Lewis Hart

264

Planning for the New Normal in Commodities with Xavier Veillard

265

The Rare Metals War: pollution, politics and the energy transition with Guillaume Pitron

266

Hydrogen: hope, hype and thermodynamics with Paul Martin

267

Navigating the Tanker Market with Richard Matthews

268

Crude Oil Trading: The hottest seat in the energy transition with Kurt Chapman

269

The Power of Biogas with John Rose

270

The Not-So Super-Cycle with Ivo Sarjanovic

271

Sourcing Renewable Power: buy, build or invest with Toby Stanway

272

The Market for Carbon with Ariel Perez

273

Special Episode: Is the tanker market on the road to recovery? A Reuters Events Webinar

274

Quick Announcement

275

Abu Dhabi: the next global commodities hub with Mark Cutis

276

The New Merchants of Grain with Jonathan Kingsman

277

Betting on biofuels: a bridge to the future with Walter Cronin

278

Trading Green Ammonia with Christophe Savi

279

Energy Transition & Geopolitics with Daniel Yergin

280

Blockchain, Tokenization & Commodities Trading

281

Trading Around Batteries: the power trading of the future

282

Trading the Super-Cycle (Special 50th episode)

283

Transforming Utilities

284

Hedge Funds & Commodities

285

Batteries as Commodities: Trading the platform technology of the Electric Revolution

286

Trading Commodities in 2030: a view of the future

287

Renewable Diesel: big bets and big challenges

288

A New Era in European Power Trading

289

The Digital Core: CTRMs and beyond

290

Lithium and the Global Battery Arms Race

291

Rare Earth Metals

292

Carbon

293

The World for Sale: A conversation with the authors

294

Through a Mirror, Darkly: The art of measuring risk in commodities

295

The Coming Commodity Super-Cycle

296

Cybersecurity & Commodities

297

The EV tipping point: consequences for the commodities world

298

Trading Data

299

The Biggest Risk in Commodity Trading: Compliance

300

ESG: The Newest Risk in Commodities

301

Transforming Transportation with Clean Hydrogen

302

2020 review and outlook for 2021

303

Commercializing Clean Hydrogen Now

304

Commodities: It’s all about risk

305

Crude Oil: view from a producer

306

Sustainability & Profitability in Commodities Trading

307

Trading Clean Hydrogen

308

Hydrogen: something for everyone

309

The US Natural Gas Market: The last decade and the next

310

The China Gas Market

311

Technology-driven change in the commodities sector

312

Private Equity: The good, the bad and the ugly

313

Managing Climate Change Risks in the Commodities Sector

314

The Long Term Impacts of COVID-19 on the Commodity Markets

315

Making a good commodity trader

316

Building a commodity trading business: rewards and risks

317

Investing in Commodities

318

Trump, Biden, and Global Commodities

319

Energy Transition, Part Two: Change for Producers, Operating Models and Talent

320

Energy Transition, Part One: Trading Houses, with Roland Rechtsteiner

321

The Solar Decade with David Fernandez of Goldman Sachs

322

The Future for Refiners, with Daryl Schofield

323

The chemicals markets with Peter Staartjes, Founder and CEO of Andino

324

The future of the power grid with Jim Fallon

325

Negative oil prices & the rise of algorithms with Ilia Bouchouev

326

Commodity finance in challenging times with Christine McWilliams

327

The future of LNG: growing demand and a growing opportunity with Mark Evans.

328

Digitalization and change in the agri markets with Dario Maffei

329

Changes, challenges and opportunity in metals trading with Doug Pratt

330

Global trade disruptions and the agri markets with Kevin Brassington

331

Coronavirus and the commodity markets with John Massey