BZF News and Press, WisdomTree Brazilian Real Strategy Fund From 10/22/19

Ethanol is a biofuel. In the US, corn is the primary ingredient in the production of ethanol, as the US is the world's leading producer and exporter of the grain. In Brazil, sugar is the input in ethanol production for the same reason. In the United States, the ethanol market is a political ho...

Overview: News that Saudi Arabia was able to restore 40-50% of the oil capacity lost by the weekend strike, coupled with the Fed's efforts to offset the squeeze in the money markets, is allowing the global capital markets to trade quietly ahead of the conclusion of the FOMC meeting. Equities...

By Jeffrey Halley Oil futures leapt this morning by over 15% in a knee-jerk reaction to the attack on the Saudi Arabia Abqaiq oil facility over the weekend that notionally, took 5% of the world's supply offline. Brent futures spiked by 20% and WTI futures by 15% despite U.S. President Trum...

The White House is unlikely to comment on it, even if it is aware that the Chinese yuan was the third strongest currency in the world last week. The British pound was the strongest, rising a little less than 1% against the dollar and snapping a 14-week plummet against the euro. None of the o...

The dollar was mostly weaker against the major currencies last week. The Swiss franc and Japanese yen were joined by the seemingly unlikely candidate, the Swedish krona, to have gained about 1% against the US dollar last week to the lead the majors. The yen and franc's gains extended moves a...

Overview: The challenges for investors have not gone away, but a combination of factors has helped stabilize the capital markets. The PBOC set the dollar's reference rate above CNY7.0, but not as high as anticipated, and this has seen the yuan strengthen modestly today. Meanwhile, the strong...

Overview: While investors keep a watchful eye on the dollar fix in China (a little firmer than projected) and tensions with the US, two other developments compete for attention. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the central banks of India and Thailand surprised the market with lower rates....

The currency relationship between the Brazilian real and the US dollar traded to a high at $0.65095 in 2011, a year when raw material prices reached peaks. Since then, corruption and economic weakness in the South American nation took the real-dollar exchange rate to a low at $0.23040 in late ...

The price of coffee had been falling steadily since trading at a high at $1.76 in November 2016. Until September 2018, the soft commodity did nothing but make lower highs and lower lows. The coffee futures market on the Intercontinental Exchange did not even challenge a significant previous hi...

Sugar is a member of the soft commodity sector of the raw materials asset class. The sweet commodity is a staple and an ingredient in many of the foods people all over the world eat each day. While many nations around the world subsidize the price of sugar, the world's leading sugarcane produc...