NIB News and Press, iPath Bloomberg Cocoa Subindex Total Return SM IndexETN 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...

I love chocolate, and I am not alone. The addressable market of chocoholics around the world has been growing by leaps and bounds. Since the beginning of the current century, global population increased by over 25%. At the same time, rising wealth in China, the world's most populous nation has...

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...

After reaching a high at $2914 per ton on the nearby ICE futures market last spring, the price of cocoa futures settled into a $2000 to $2400 range which has been in place since last July. Over the period, the price of the commodity has made three trips to test to the downside, and now it appe...

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 ...

The cocoa market has been like a rollercoaster over the fourteen years. After reaching a low at $1315 per ton in late 2005, the price rallied to a high at $3385 in 2008 before selling took it back down to a higher low at $1867 in October 2008 as risk-off trading in all markets during the globa...

Groundhog Day is a strange American tradition. Each year on February 2, a furry rodent predicts the weather based on if it sees its shadow or not. Sounds crazy? Well, it certainly is a bit nuts. The concept of Groundhog Day comes from an ancient Christian celebration, Candlemas Day, which ma...