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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...
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...
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...
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...
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