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The trade dispute between the US and China is causing lots of volatility in markets across all asset classes. After the US introduced new tariffs on Friday, May 10 in the wake of a disappointment in the pace and progress over negotiations, China retaliated on May 13. The markets had adopted a ...

The Trump administration is planning on providing about $15B in aid to help U.S. farmers whose products may be targeted by the newly unveiled Chinese tariffs. More news on: iPath Series B Bloomberg Coffee Subindex Total Return ETN, Invesco DB Agriculture ETF, Teucrium Corn ETF, Commoditi...

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...

Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS ) is closing its top 10 trade ideas from a few months ago based on misplaced macro risk, and has introduced 10 commodities trades for a second half that it thinks will be based on shorter-focus considerations. More news on: The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., The United ...

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...

The price of sugar has been trading in a range between 11.69 and 13.50 cents per pound since early November 2018 and was trading near the middle of the band on Tuesday, April 23. Sugar is a staple when it comes to many foods consumed around the world each day. However, the sweet commodity is a...

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...