Sentences with phrase «soft commodity prices»

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Food makers such as Kraft and Mondelez have reported soft volume as they've boosted the prices of their products to help offset the higher commodity costs.

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.

However, I do think the downside is limited from these depressed prices as the soft commodities remain weak.

Investors are now also concerned about softer manufacturing activities and weaker commodity and Chinese equity prices.

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.

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.

There are all kinds of charting tools to measure historical volatility, and it's good to study them to get a «feel» for how a market's prices will have regular peaks and valleys, especially more seasonal - based commodities like the grains (corn, wheat, soybeans, etc.) and for the most part the softs (coffee, sugar, cocoa, etc.).

Today, futures market participants trading futures to hedge price risk exposure may include any commercial entity that produces or buys any of the commodities such as grains and livestock, the «softs» including cocoa, sugar, cotton, coffee, and orange juice; energies including crude oil, heating oil, gasoline, and natural gas; and metals such gold, silver, platinum, and copper.

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.