BALB - Soft Commodities - Q1 2019 Review And The Outlook For Q2 2019
The prices of soft commodities can be highly volatile as they often double, triple, or halve in value during their pricing cycles. The path of least resistance for the prices of luxury commodities is a function of the weather and crop diseases in the critical growing areas around the world. However, the demand side of the fundamental equation supplies an ever-increasing addressable market for these products as the population of the world is growing by between 18-20 million people each quarter. Since 2000, the number of people inhabiting our planet has increased by over 26%