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By Bluford Putnam Flooding by the Mississippi River, a key artery for grain shipments to U.S. Gulf export points, has slowed barge traffic and could spike market volatility. Editor’s Note: The summary bullets for this article were chosen by Seeking Alpha Read mo...
On Friday, March 8 the US Department of Agriculture will release its second World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report of 2019. The January report fell victim to the government shutdown which meant that many agricultural producers were making decisions in the dark until the agency r...
When someone asks me which commodity is the most sensitive to global political trends, my answer often comes as a surprise. Many market participants would answer that crude oil is highly political because more than half of the world's reserves of the energy commodity reside in the most turbule...
Originally published on Feb. 14, 2019 By Dominic Sutton-Vermeulen Introduction Recent changes in geopolitical trade policy and resulting tensions have put commodity markets on the front line of the U.S.-led trade war. As global supply chains shift and trade policy from the government...
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...
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...
By Nitesh Shah, Director of Research, WisdomTree Europe & Aneeka Gupta, Associate Director, Research Any investor who has allocated to commodities over the last decade has experienced a difficult ride. Consider: We've had blockbuster returns in the S&P 500 Index over the last ...
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...
London is a financial capital. It is the home of the London Metals Exchange where consumers and producers have been hedging and exchanging copper, aluminum, nickel, lead, zinc, tin, and other metals for centuries. The capital of the United Kingdom is also a primary hub of the international cur...