DAG News and Press, DB Agriculture Double Long ETN From 10/01/19

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 growing...

The animal protein or meat sector moved 3.51% lower in Q3, but lean hog futures continued to post gains over the past nine months. The sector finished 2018 with a 3.73% loss and has moved 7.32% lower over the first nine months of 2019. Meats ended 2017 with an 8.39% gain after falling 8.80% in...

The August Prices Received Index for agricultural production is 90.5% of its 2011 base, +0.8% from the July 2019 index and +0.9% from the August 2018 index More news on: Invesco DB Agriculture ETF, ELEMENTS Linked to the Rogers International Commodity Index - Agriculture Total Return, DB...

Cocoa has been a great market for those market participants that have bought scale-down during price corrections and sold scale-up on recoveries. The world's leading cocoa-producing nations are the Ivory Coast and Ghana. The weather conditions and climate in West Africa are ideal for growing t...

At just over 11 cents per pound on the October sugar futures contract and the $1 level on December coffee futures, the prices of the soft commodities have recovered from their respective recent lows. Meanwhile, the prices are closer to lows than highs based on their ranges over the past decade...

On Thursday, September 12, the US Department of Agriculture released its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. Grain and agricultural product prices had limped into the report after a mostly bearish report from the USDA in August. The early season floods did not caus...

China's Ministry of Commerce says it will exempt soybeans, pork and other agricultural products from the U.S. from additional tariffs, in the latest move to ease trade tensions before the two countries restart trade talks next month. More news on: Invesco DB Agriculture ETF, iPath Series...

Chinese importers bought at least 10 cargoes of soybeans , or 600K metric tons, the country's biggest purchases since at least June, in another indication that trade tensions between the U.S. and China may be easing, Reuters reports, citing U.S. traders with direct knowledge of the deals. ...

On Friday, September 6, Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks (SBUX), announced that he would not run for President of the United States. Mr. Schultz had been pondering a self-financed run to become the leader of the free world, but he decided to step aside. He made his fortune in coffee, n...

After trading to a high at 14.24 cents per pound in October 2018, the price of sugar has been dissolving like a cube in a hot cup of coffee. The price of the sweet commodity hit its lowest level of 2019 and since last year at this time last week when it traded to a low at 10.86 cents per pound...