Traders who weren’t sellers on Thursday quickly jumped on the bandwagon Friday. The CBOT opened lower overnight but mostly consolidated as traders tried to parse out fundamental grain/oilseed weakness from the recent combination of weak macro markets and technical selling. Any overnight strength quickly dissipated at the morning’s open, and the CBOT posted significant losses across all the major grain/oilseed markets (soymeal being the one exception). Corn and soybeans both took out major technical points, though December corn stopped short of violating major trendline support at $5.30. Wheat futures also abandoned their higher trend and settled 12-15 cents lower and below major support. Selling earlier this week was mostly dri...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
From WPI Consulting
Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.