Counter-intuitive Short-sellers are disliked by most, including corporate executives, politicians and regulators. Yet, research data shows that they contribute to market confidence and thus liquidity. For years, wider, straighter roads with traffic signals believed to make urban driving safer, yet the result has been the opposite and cities are now narrowing streets and using stop signs or no signage at all. Populists have been selling a vision of agriculture that is small, local and “nature-based,” though the evidence shows that food can be better produced, and nature preserved by using precision agriculture. Policymakers should follow the evidence and not the emotion. Food Trade Rebound The WTO is forecasting a declin...
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...