VEGI News and Press, iShares MSCI Agriculture Producers Fund From 09/16/22

Summary With the Fed’s latest “higher for longer” interest rate comments, commodities pulled back in the month of August, but continue to hold strong year to date. Commodities continued to recover from the July lows for most of August, but finished the month o...

Summary While food demand patterns have normalised since the pandemic, there are still supply issues due to labour shortages, climate and trade disruptions. Food manufacturers will look to strike a balance between quick fixes and structural solutions to increase resilience. Ec...

Summary Global inflation was generally moderating when the pandemic began, and the downward trend continued into the early months of the crisis. Food and energy are the main drivers of this inflation, as our Chart of the Week shows. Inflation continued to climb through July, a...

Summary Today's market X-ray shows the returns for each index, asset class, sector, and so on, since the recent low point on June 16th. Of the global indices, US small caps are in the lead, followed by the NASDAQ. High beta stocks are the most preferred factors since June 16. ...

Prices are increasing. Agricultural commodity prices have seen significant, above-average increases. VEGI is a global agriculture index ETF and provides investors with a simple way to profit from these trends. An overview of the fund follows. I've covered several inflati...

The energy sector led during the month of July, providing almost all of the positive performance due to a strong rally in natural gas prices. The heat wave from late June into early July in the lower Midwest U.S. killed cattle, quickly reducing supply. However, both cattle and hogs ra...

Elevated inflation, slowing global economic growth expectations, and reduced central bank liquidity remain the key economic considerations. The policy interest rate divergence between the U.S. and Europe is likely to increase amid heightened recession risk in Europe. We expect mar...

The investment landscape has been much more difficult for most sustainable portfolios since the fourth quarter of last year. One thing that we know is that the sustainability challenges that these stocks are connected to haven’t gone away. If anything, the economic challeng...

Last Thursday, the Commerce Department announced its preliminary estimate for second-quarter GDP growth at an annualized decline of -0.9%, which marks two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. The Commerce Department announced on Wednesday that durable goods orders increased a ...

To combat the effects of inflation, ADM has implemented a cost-optimization approach based on mechanization. Revenues from Deerland, the company's new purchase, are expected to boost top-line growth. Strategic hedges protect the company against price and currency-related risks. ...