NIB News and Press, iPath Bloomberg Cocoa Subindex Total Return SM IndexETN From 05/13/19

On Friday, May 10, at noon EST the US Department of Agriculture released its May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Report on a day where the market's attention was elsewhere. An environment where the US slapped new tariffs on China moved the WASDE report to the end of the line whe...

In a market where most agricultural commodities are under siege, the price of cocoa has held up well. Cocoa trades on the Intercontinental Exchange with the other soft commodities. The price of sugar fell to its lowest level since 2008 last September at 9.83 cents per pound and was trading at ...

It is that time of the month again. If the prices of grains and most other agricultural commodities limped into the April WASDE report, they are crawling into the USDA's May release which is coming on May 10 at noon EST. There have been no new earth-shattering developments on trade between the...

Barclays Bank PLC (“Barclays” or the “Issuer”) announced a temporary reduction of the minimum early redemption size of certain series of ETNs as specified in the table below (together, the “ETNs”). Currently holders of the ETNs are required to redeem...

The United States is the world's leading producer and exporter of corn. Anyone who has driven across the fertile plains of the US knows that there are seemingly endless stretches where corn is growing on both sides of the road during the spring and summer season. While corn is a stable for f...

In the soft commodities sector of the raw materials asset class, the cocoa futures market tends to roll from one active month to the next first. Volatility often picks up during a roll period as market participants decide if they will take their risk positions into the next active month. As th...

Coffee futures traded to a high at $1.76 per pound in November 2016 when it turned lower and made lower highs and lower lows culminating in a bottom at 92 cents per pound in September 2018. Before last August, coffee had not traded below the $1 per pound level since 2006 in a dozen years. Th...

The soybean crush spread is the economics of processing the raw oilseed into soybean products; soybean meal and soybean oil. Soybean meal is a primary ingredient in the production of animal feed and other products. Soybean oil is essential when it comes to many food products that feed the worl...

At their Party Congress in October 2017, President Xi rolled out plans to clean up pollution in China's most populous cities. In Europe and other nations around the world, alternative energy sources are gaining momentum as policies have shifted from fossil fuels. In the US, the new majority in...

Each month the US Department of Agriculture releases the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report which is the gold-standard for fundamental research for many of the products that feed the world. The April report comes at a time when farmers are beginning the process of planting c...