BAL News and Press, iPathA Series B Bloomberg Cotton Subindex Total Return ETN From 04/21/20

Oil is getting all the headlines , but corn, beans, sugar, coffee, and cocoa are among other commodities either close to or making multi-year lows this morning. More news on: Invesco DB Agriculture ETF, iPath Series B Bloomberg Coffee Subindex Total Return ETN, Teucrium Corn ETF, Commo...

On Thursday, April 9, the US Department of Agriculture released its April World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. The prices of most agricultural commodities had been under substantial pressure going into the April report as the deflationary spiral caused by the spread of Corona...

Cotton is part of our daily lives. We wear clothing and sleep on bedding made of the fluffy fiber. Cotton futures trade on the Intercontinental Exchange and is a member of the soft commodity sector of the raw materials market. China is the world’s leading consumer of cotton, as it acc...

Commodities are global assets that are essentials for people around the world. Glencore PLC ( OTCPK:GLNCY ) is both a merchant trading and producing company with interests across the globe. The company has been around since the 1970s, is the successor company from Marc Rich AG, and has its hea...

On Thursday, April 9, the US Department of Agriculture will release its April World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. The monthly WASDE report is the gold standard for producers and consumers of agricultural products. The April WASDE comes as the spring planting season gets un...

Soft commodities can be the most volatile sector of the commodities market as prices routinely 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 growi...

The question everyone is asking, of course, is whether this financial stimulus by the Federal Reserve will really be enough to jump-start the economy and end what has been a "Black Swan" event in most commodities and financial markets. The fiscal stimulus has been weakening the dollar this w...

On Tuesday, March 10, the US Department of Agriculture released its March World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. The monthly WASDE is the gold-standard when it comes to fundamental data on grains and other agricultural markets. As we move into the spring season in the United St...

On Tuesday, February 11, the US Department of Agriculture released its second World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report of 2020. We are coming into the time of the year where farmers will begin to plant the crops that feed and clothe the world over the coming weeks and months. Sinc...

Cotton was looking like it was prepared to take off on the upside in mid-January. The price of the fluffy fiber that trades in the futures market on the Intercontinental Exchange moved over 70 cents per pound in early January since May 2019. Like many other commodities, cotton had been a victi...