COW News and Press, iPathA Series B Bloomberg Livestock Subindex Total Return ETN From 05/23/22

U.S. organic sales reached nearly $62 billion in 2020 as the industry achieved its 12th consecutive year of growth. Following growing consumer demand, the footprint of U.S. organic agriculture has expanded. While consumer demand has been the driver for an increase in organic agric...

Current Macro ag is coming in hot. Commodities futures are up across the board due to ongoing floods in the Midwest, and even snow still falling in some places. The one thing I am watching is wheat. The general condition of the winter crop did not help in finding a stable floor for pr...

Barclays (NYSE:BCS) announced that it has halted further sales of 30 iPath ETNs. The move comes as the company plans a restatement of financial details, triggering a regulatory requirement that it stop selling the investment vehicles. The suspension went into effect at the open of trading on ...

We see specific themes in commodities that could benefit from the transition to a low carbon economy. On average, since 1997, commodities have historically outperformed the S&P 500 in the first 12 months after the beginning of a rate hiking cycle. Investors are increasingly us...

Commodities exposure, designed carefully, can provide effective inflation defense and portfolio diversification. After nearly a decade of struggles and underinvestment, the supportive infrastructure and supply for many commodities have become strained. Commodities don’t all...

The pork industry is weighing its outlook as farmers balance between strong hog prices and rising input costs. Farmers are enjoying some of the highest weekly hog prices since 2014, with domestic pork demand strong. The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) says over the past 12 ...

The conflict in Ukraine has already led nations to reassess their energy security, but with two of the world's biggest grain exporters at war, food security is also making waves. The Hungarian government now has the option to buy any grain destined for export, while Moldova and Serbia have re...

Supply chain disruptions caused by viruses are not limited to coronavirus in 2022. As the herds in mainland China have begun to recover from the 2019 outbreak, the return to domestic supplies is apparent as the volume of imports had begun to reduce. For Italian pork producers, new...

Commodities, by virtue of their fungibility and broad uses, have infiltrated nearly every facet of human life, making the world enormously reliant on their ready availability. As the world gears up for the push to reduce carbon emissions, one segment of the commodity world under the s...

There are battles being waged in the #plantbased theater, driven by a shift in consumer appetite toward environmentally friendly products. However, dairy and meat plant-based items aren't the only alternative protein rage. Lab grown meat, as well as fermentation startups, are still in the ear...