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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...

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...

By Dimitry Dayen, CFA and Jeffrey Schulze, CFA In a flashback to the 2014 Thanksgiving massacre, the OPEC+ deal to further cut crude oil production was blocked last week by Russia, which refused to cut its own production significantly under an ultimatum from Saudi Arabia. Saudi Aramco init...

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...

I first traveled to China in the late 1980s. China was an emerging market in those days. As a commodities trader, China was a significant market participant in the raw material markets. Over the past decades, significant economic growth in the world's most populous nation transformed the Asian...

On Tuesday, February 11, at noon EST, the US Department of Agriculture will release its second World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report of the year. The February WASDE will set the state for the 2020 planting season, which commences in late March and April. The monthly WASDE rep...

(1/31/19 2019-nCoV Global Confirmed Cases - John Hopkins University ) As the Coronavirus spreads from China to the rest of the globe and markets are selling off, many investors are asking themselves whether it is a buying or selling opportunity. If it's a buying opportunity, which assets ar...

Agricultural prices have been highly volatile over the past few months due to many rumors surrounding the U.S-China mini-trade deal. As touted by Trump, the market expected significant purchasing of U.S. farm goods from China over the coming months. The deal was originally said to be worth $50...

"Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered." You have undoubtedly heard this phrase before. Pigs do get slaughtered, but in pork-loving China and other parts of Asia there are not enough to go around. African Swine Flu ((ASF)) is ravaging the Chinese pig population. Some analyst...

China reportedly has pledged to buy $50B more in U.S. energy supplies and raise U.S. agriculture purchases by $32B over two years as part of the upcoming phase one trade deal, but commodity traders and analysts are struggling to figure out how China will fulfill such sizeable commitment...