Given the much lower volumes and the absence of serious futures trading during a busy holiday period makes it an unrepresentative period for the markets. One positive is that it started as a risk-on day, buoyed by Chinese President Xi Jinping’s direct confirmation of a trade deal with the U.S. The curiosity remains the funds, which are still holding substantial short positions in corn, soybeans and soymeal despite the more bullish outlook, and it being the end of the financial year when the accounting office wants the books cleaned up. One bearish factor remains the incongruity of China’s purported forthcoming agricultural commodity purchases and fundamental economics. The U.S. will need to be price competitive under an MFN tar...
From WPI Consulting
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.