A confluence of factors helped soybean futures post a technical upside breakout overnight with strength continuing into the day session. Macro-traders are increasingly concerned about inflation, but raw commodity prices are typically beneficiaries of inflationary pressures and that thinking led to an influx of managed money in CBOT markets on Tuesday. Disappointing yields from Brazil’s still-delayed soybean harvest and a slow start to the export year were further supportive. November soybeans and December corn rallied to new contract highs as the Ag Outlook Forum’s key takeaway was that of “big demand”, which has traders thinking U.S. acreage needs to increase. Funds were net buyers in the soy complex and corn...
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...
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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.