JO News and Press, iPathA Series B Bloomberg Coffee Subindex Total Return ETN From 03/13/19

Those who read my articles on Seeking Alpha know that I often call wheat the most political commodity in the world. While the majority of market participants would likely assign that title to the international crude oil market because more than half the world's reserves are located in the most...

Coffee consumers around the world have been cheering because in September 2018 the price of coffee beans fell to their lowest level in many years at 92 cents per pound. After a brief recovery that took the price of the Arabica beans favored by US consumers back to $1.255 in October, the price ...

On Friday, March 8 the US Department of Agriculture will release its second World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report of 2019. The January report fell victim to the government shutdown which meant that many agricultural producers were making decisions in the dark until the agency r...

When someone asks me which commodity is the most sensitive to global political trends, my answer often comes as a surprise. Many market participants would answer that crude oil is highly political because more than half of the world's reserves of the energy commodity reside in the most turbule...

When it comes to coffee, I prefer the product offered by Dunkin' Donuts. Dunkin' Brands Group ( DNKN ). My preference is a matter of personal taste, but I also appreciate the wider selection of products more appealing. A trip to Starbucks (SBUX) is more of a social event, and more locations of...

2018 was a rough year for Coffee ( JO , BJO ) producers as the commodity’s value fell by a whopping 30%. Moreover, the beginning of 2019 turned out to be similar as from mid-January the price of coffee has once again been in sharp descent. Thus, the big question now is whether the decl...

As I sit here sipping my morning cup of coffee and reflecting on the low price of the fragrant beans, I ponder the many markets that I had watched over the past four decades when they fell to the bottom end of their pricing cycles. It is so easy to get bearish when prices are moving to the dow...

This week, the world waited while trade negotiators from China and the United States huddled in Beijing for high-level talks over the ongoing trade dispute between the two countries. In 2018, the US under President Donald Trump put tariffs on many Chinese exports to the US and China retaliated...

US agriculture was not well positioned to suffer a federal government shutdown in December and January. In an era of low commodity prices, many farms cannot afford trade-war shenanigans and cannot afford government shutdowns. Across the US, median farm income for 2018 was -$1,548 (yes, a negat...

By Nitesh Shah, Director of Research, WisdomTree Europe & Aneeka Gupta, Associate Director, Research Any investor who has allocated to commodities over the last decade has experienced a difficult ride. Consider: We've had blockbuster returns in the S&P 500 Index over the last ...