The CBOT sold off once again amid pronounced pressure from outside macroeconomic markets. Last week’s Fed interest rate hike – the fastest since the 1970’s – combined with Britian’s new economic policy and the election results in Italy sent macro traders into a selling frenzy. The big concern, of course, is the looming threat of a recession, which could dent demand for physical commodities. The CBOT, despite tight stocks predicted for corn, wheat, and – to a lesser extent – soybeans, succumbed to the selling to start the week and major ag markets all headed lower. Notably, the selloff was the most pronounced in the livestock markets as falling meat prices combined with a semi-bearish Cattle on Feed...
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.