USAG News and Press, United States Agriculture Index Fund ETV From 04/26/19

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...

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...

The monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report from the US Department of Agriculture is the gold-standard when it comes to its supply and demand data and projections. However, the USDA often looks at agricultural markets with a bit too much optimism at the beginning ...

We've talked recently about African Swine Flu sending the Hog market for a ride , and that's just the sort of thing we imagined in our 2019 Outlook whitepaper when we talked about the "return of Ag." There's been four straight years of volatility contraction for the Ag markets, and there's a ...

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...