USAG News and Press, United States Agriculture Index Fund ETV From 02/15/19

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...

Most people believe that crude oil is the commodity that has the most political significance because more than half the world's reserves are in the Middle East which is the most turbulent region on the earth. Meanwhile, Venezuela is the nation that has the highest reserves of the energy commod...

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...

On Friday, February 8, the USDA released its first World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report for 2019. The January report was a casualty of the government shutdown. The agricultural markets greeted the report that outlines the latest supply and demand fundamentals with little mor...

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...

The partial government shutdown caused a cancelation of the January World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. Each month the WASDE report from the US Department of Agriculture releases the gold standard for fundamental data in the markets that feed the world. With the end of the...

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...

The price of coffee has been in a bear market since 2011 when it traded to a high at $3.0625 per pound on the nearby Arabica futures contract that trades on the Intercontinental exchange and is a member of the soft commodities sector of the raw materials asset class. Today, coffee is trading a...

Sugar is one of the most volatile commodities that trade on the futures exchange. Since the 1970s, the range in the sweet commodity has been from a low at 2.29 cents per pound to a high at almost twenty-nine times that level at 66 cents. The price of sugar depends on a collection of factors in...

The November Prices Received Index for agricultural production is 88.1% of its 2011 base, up 3.5% from the Oct. 2018 index but down 3.6% from the Nov. 2017 index More news on: Invesco DB Agriculture ETF, ELEMENTS Rogers International Commodity Agriculture ETN, DB Agriculture Double ...