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The price action in the coffee futures market has been a bonus for companies that rely on coffee beans as a part of their cost of goods sold. For those who have not lower product prices, lower coffee prices have increased profit margins since 2011. Arabica coffee futures that trade on the In...

Cocoa beans are the primary ingredient in chocolate confectionery products. The beans thrive in tropical climates near the equator. Therefore, the West African nations of the Ivory Coast and Ghana are the world's leading producers of cocoa. Together they account for around 60% of the global an...

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...

In an apparent goodwill gesture a day before Pres. Trump's meeting with Chinese Pres. Xi, the U.S. Department of Agriculture today reported a large soybean sale to China . More news on: Invesco DB Agriculture ETF, Teucrium Soybean Fund, ELEMENTS Rogers International Commodity Agriculture ...

The cocoa futures market recently rolled from the July to the September series of futures on the Intercontinental Exchange. The roll period can cause increased price variance as longs and shorts decide whether to carry their risk positions into the next active contract or exit the market. Th...

So far in 2019, the price of nearby sugar futures that trade on the Intercontinental Exchange in the soft commodity sector of the raw materials asset classes have been in a range from 11.36 to 13.50 per pound. The trading band has been narrow at 2.14 cents over the first almost six months of t...

The grain markets had a spectacular week last week, for the bulls. Despite the ongoing and escalating trade dispute between the US and China that has been weighing on agricultural commodity prices and a reasonably benign World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report from the US Departm...

Tariffs and subsidies distort commodity prices, and commodities are global assets. In a totally free market, goods would flow around the world from the lowest priced producers to the consumers willing to pay the most. That efficient economic model is great in theory, but in practice, governmen...

On Tuesday, June 11, at noon EST, the US Department of Agriculture released its June World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. The USDA issues the report each month of the year, but the June report comes at a critical time as the planting season is moving into the growing season t...

The peak season of demand for animal proteins in the United States started on the Memorial Day weekend at the end of May. In June, July, and August, the aroma of beef, chicken, and pork will fill the summer air as the barbecue is a part of being an American. As carnivores from coast to coast...