Merricks Capital, which specialises
in soft commodities, helped to create derivative contracts with the major US hamburger companies to allow them to hedge the cost of Australian beef while allowing them to profit from anomalies in global beef prices, such as the perceived high price of Australian cattle.
The opportunities for hedge funds to find dislocations and arbitrage opportunities are far greater
in soft commodities such as beef compared with hard commodities such as iron ore because the supply is more dispersed.
Not exact matches
Key
commodities traded globally such as crude oil, gold, copper and
softs like wheat are typically priced
in dollars, with liquidity often favor the major exchanges
in New York, London and Chicago as centers of trade.
Unfortunately, the weakness
in producer prices (as well as industrial
commodity prices) is essentially a reflection of
soft demand.
The rebound
in commodity prices, a
softer euro and stronger economic growth are setting European earnings on course for the best quarter since 2011.
Trade
in every
commodity market we offer, from crude oil and precious metals to coffee, cotton, and other
softs.
The Bloomberg
Commodity Index (down over 28 %
in a year) demonstrates the relentless downward pressure on
commodities - hard,
soft, or liquid since late 2011.
A few dollar - denominated
commodities moved higher on Friday
in response to a weaker U.S. Dollar, a drop
in U.S. Treasury yields and
softer - than - expected U.S. economic data.The dollar was pressured against a basket of currencies after the initial reading on first - quarter gross domestic product came
in at 2.3 percent.
The combined effects of falling
commodity prices, weak global demand for exports and
soft internal demand have led to year - over-year (YOY) declines
in the gross domestic products (GDPs) of the largest Asian economies.
CCA's cost increases are lower than those at Schweppes because CCA pays for
soft drink concentrate
in Australian dollars rather than US dollars and hedges its
commodity and currency exposure.
Commodity ETFs invest
in various
commodities such as natural resources and precious metals, energy, agricultural goods, industrial metals, hard assets and
soft commodities.
Established
in 2000 to offer an electronic energy market, the ICE later acquired the New York Board of Trade to become the primary center for trading the
softs commodities including coffee, cocoa, sugar, and orange juice.
Nick acts for banks and trading companies
in transactions around the world and his experience includes transactions involving energy, metals and
soft commodities as well as equipment and processed goods and semi-processed.
We have an extensive track record
in the financing of the production, export, transport, warehousing and sale and purchase of
commodities including oil and oil products; bio fuels; chemicals; precious and base metals;
soft commodities such as coffee, sugar, cocoa, grains, paper, cotton and textiles; and related assets such as carbon credits.
We advise the full spectrum of industry players including companies involved
in agribusiness and food production, processing and distribution, agrichemicals manufacturers, processors of agricultural
commodities, manufacturers of precision farming equipment, alternative fuel producers,
soft commodities traders and financial institutions.
Our
soft commodities team has established a leading reputation
in emerging and transitional markets, with extensive experience
in the financing of the production, export, transport and warehousing of a vast range of
soft commodities including tobacco, coffee, cocoa, sugar, grains and edible oils, paper, cotton, textiles and carbon credits.
In addition, Peter counsels several major investment banking companies that trade energy and
soft commodities.
Well known for assisting clients with physicals, covering
soft commodities and metals, with particular expertise
in sugar and grain.
In the future, it also plans to offer stock certificates,
soft commodities, and even strips of farmland.
Through a series of high - level panel discussions, dialogues and debates, the event will examine the fundamental and technical drivers of supply, demand, and pricing
in key
commodity categories — crude oil and clean energy, precious, industrial and strategic metals, ags,
softs, livestock and more.
For example, gold is always priced
in U.S. dollars, as are
soft commodities such as wheat and grain.