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Soft Commodities, Top Stories on the Day
Soft Commodities, Top Stories on the Day ICE, KSS Arabica-Coffee, Sugar Futures Fall to New Lows Arabica-coffee and raw-sugar prices fell to multiyear lows as outlooks for record supplies of the 2 commodities, largely from the world’s biggest grower of each, Brazil drove selling. COCOA Natra Sees 2013 Cocoa Grindings Higher at 35,000-36,000 Tons The [...]
Top Stories Sugar, Cocoa, Coffee
Top Stories Sugar, Cocoa, Coffee ICE Sugar Sugar prices are tumbling as investors brace for a rush of supply from Brazil this year. Raw Sugar Hits Fresh 33-Month Low; Cotton Sags on Supplies Raw-sugar futures Wednesday tumbled to a fresh 33-month low, as market watchers said Brazilian mills tried to lock in prices for the [...]
Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs Crawl Into US Food System
Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs Crawl Into US Food System Antibiotic-resistant bacteria called “superbugs” are entering the nation’s food system and endangering consumers at an alarming rate, according to researchers who analyzed data from the federal government. The Environmental Working Group said Monday that it had revied studies from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System published in [...]
Soft Commodities, the Top Stories of the Day
Soft Commodities, the Top Stories of the Day ICE Arabica Coffee, Short-Covering Pushes Arabica Coffee to End at 3 wk High Arabica-coffee futures climbed to a three-week high Wednesday as traders closed out bets that prices would fall amid concerns about outbreaks of Coffee-rust disease in Central America. Brazil’s 2013 Green Coffee Exports to Rise [...]
COFFEE, ICE Coffee Falls to 33-Month Low; Cotton Extends Rally
COFFEE, ICE Coffee Falls to 33-Month Low; Cotton Extends Rally Arabica-coffee futures slumped to a 33-month low Friday on a buildup of beans in exchange-certified warehouses and expectations for a large Brazilian crop this year. Brazil Coffee Growers Sold 71% of 2012 Crop by 28 February Sales of Brazil’s 2012 coffee crop, harvested between May [...]
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Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Prices
Arabica Coffee Sheds 3.7% as Brazil Currency Plunges Coffee futures tumbled 3.7% in New York on Friday on an increase in global exports of the beans and a sharp drop in top coffee-grower Brazil’s currency against the USD. ICCO Revises Up 2011-2012 Cocoa Balance to a Surplus The International Cocoa Organization or ICCO has revised [...]
Higher prices erase gains to US Farm income
Higher prices erase gains to US Farm income The US Department of Agriculture USDA said Tuesday that net farm income in the US would fall 3.3% in Y 2012, to $114-B from 2011’s record high net income of $116-B. Net cash income is down 1.4% Y-Y, to $132.8-B. The agency says: Despite gains in almost [...]
Cocoa, Coffee, Sugar, Orange Juice Prices and Trading
Cocoa, Coffee, Sugar, Orange Juice Ivory Coast to Base Semi-finished-Cocoa Tax on Weight Ivory Coast, the world’s top producer of cocoa beans, is expected to levy its export tax on semi-finished cocoa products based on their equivalent weight in beans, a major international exporter said Tuesday. Cameroon’s Aug-Sep 2012-13 Cocoa Grindings Soar on Year Cameroon’s [...]
Cotton, Coffee, Sugar OJ News
OLMIY, MON, ICE NY Cotton futures rise 4% on US supply concerns Cotton futures soared three cents, or the exchange-imposed limit, to settle at a four-month high Wednesday, as concerns about U.S. supplies gave prices a boost. Orange-Juice futures rise 3.9% on low volume Short covering OJ futures rose Wednesday as investors close out bets [...]
Commodities: The Sugar Glut Continues
Commodities: The Sugar Glut Continues NSRGF, BAC The global Sugar Glut is extending into its 3rd yr, the longest stretch in more than 10 yrs, as Brazil and Australia expand output and imports contract to the smallest since Y 2008. Production will exceed demand by 5.9-M metric tons in the year that began 1 October, [...]
Agriculture Stocks a Must Own
Economist Shayne Heffernan of www.livetradingnews.com on Agriculture According to the OECD Agricultural production needs to increase by 60% over the next 40 years to meet rising demand for food. Additional production will also be necessary to provide feedstock for expanding biofuel production. Increasing agricultural productivity will be central to containing food prices in a context [...]
Chocolate: Sweet Path to Nobel Prize
Chocolate: Sweet Path to Nobel Prize? By Chris Kaiser, Cardiology Editor, MedPage Today Published: October 12, 2012 Swiss chocolate is world renowned for its luxurious richness, but now it may also be known for it’s brain-enhancing power. An analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that Switzerland’s high consumption of chocolate correlates with [...]
Commodities Price Update and Outlook Grains, Metals, Energy
Grain Prices Russia may limit grain exports this autumn if domestic prices rise sharply, Economy Minister Andrei Belousov said Friday, Russian newswires reported. “The question of shutting off the export of grain is one of the dynamics of the domestic price for grain. We are currently monitoring that trend. Given such trends, it’s entirely possible [...]
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China Economy in for a Shock
Thursday’s PMI revived investor worries about whether China can sustain an economic revival this year, after annual growth slumped to a 13-year trough in 2012. China’s factory output and investment performance for April released earlier …
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Commodities; Crude Oil ends the Week 2.3% Lower, Nat Gas Gains 4.4%
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Roulette, The Devil’s Game
All of the numbers on a Roulette Wheel add up to 666, hence, that is why roulette is referred to as “The Devil’s Game.”
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