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The three leading grain futures markets that trade on the CBOT division of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange are the soybean, corn, and wheat contracts. The United States is the world's leading producer and exporter of corn and soybeans. When it comes to wheat, the US is only one of many produci...
On Tuesday, February 11, the US Department of Agriculture released its second World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report of 2020. We are coming into the time of the year where farmers will begin to plant the crops that feed and clothe the world over the coming weeks and months. Sinc...
Cotton was looking like it was prepared to take off on the upside in mid-January. The price of the fluffy fiber that trades in the futures market on the Intercontinental Exchange moved over 70 cents per pound in early January since May 2019. Like many other commodities, cotton had been a victi...
Brazil is South America's leading economy and most populous nation. According to the October 2018 World Economic Outlook Database from the International Monetary Fund, Brazil's GDP was just over $3.524 trillion, with a population of over 212 million. Brazil is the sixth most populous nation in...
I first traveled to China in the late 1980s. China was an emerging market in those days. As a commodities trader, China was a significant market participant in the raw material markets. Over the past decades, significant economic growth in the world's most populous nation transformed the Asian...
On Tuesday, February 11, at noon EST, the US Department of Agriculture will release its second World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report of the year. The February WASDE will set the state for the 2020 planting season, which commences in late March and April. The monthly WASDE rep...
Coffee is a soft commodity that trades on the Intercontinental Exchange. Since 2010, the price of coffee has traded in a range from 86.35 cents to $3.0625 per pound. The high came in 2011 when most other commodities hit their peaks. The low in the coffee futures market occurred in April 2019 w...
In March 2011, when most commodity markets were moving towards highs, the price of cocoa futures on the Intercontinental Exchange rose to an all-time peak of $3826 per ton. Each quarter, the world adds approximately twenty million people to the global population. Over the past nine years, the ...
Since sugar began trading in the futures market in 1971, the price of the sweet commodity has traded in a range from 2.29 to 66 cents per pound. Over the past ten years, the trading back narrowed to 9.83 cents to 36.08 cents. The low came in September 2018, and the high in 2011, when many othe...
The December Prices Received Index 2011 Base, at 89.5, +0.8% from November but decreased -0.8% from December 2018. More news on: Invesco DB Agriculture ETF, ELEMENTS Linked to the Rogers International Commodity Index - Agriculture Total Return, DB Agriculture Double Long ETN, News on ETF...
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