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Tag Archives: Food Prices
Dude, Where Is Food and Crude?
Now these are the tax cuts we like! Especially because the big flop in food prices directly benefits the poor (x/ farmers) more than anyone else. Thus far, these are relative price shifts and and not a sign of general … Continue reading
Posted in Crude Oil, Food Prices, Monetary Policy
Tagged Food Prices, Monetary Policy, oil prices, QE3
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What’s Driving U.S. Inflation?
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) in the U.S. increased 2.9 percent in February before seasonal adjustment. These BLS charts and table illustrate what is driving the increase. (click here is charts and table are not observable)
Posted in Economics, Inflation/Deflation
Tagged Energy Prices, Food Prices, Inflation, U.S. CPI
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Now for Some Good News…
Here’s a little piece of good macro news. The CRB Foodstuffs sub-index — hogs, steers, lard, butter, soybean oil, cocoa, corn, Kansas City wheat, Minneapolis wheat, and sugar — is down 18 percent from its April high. Good news for … Continue reading
Global Trend Indicators
(click here if tables are not observable)
Posted in Global Trend Indicators
Tagged Commodities, Crude Oil, Food Prices, Global Stock Markts, Gold
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Food Fight
Check out the BLS Foodstuffs sub-index which is now right at key support. The better than expected USDA report hammered the grains last week and traders now have to decide either to stay with the Ag trade or dump their … Continue reading
Posted in Charts, Commodities, Food Prices
Tagged BLS Foodstuffs, Corn, Food Prices, Wheat
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Global Trend Indicators
(click here if tables are not observable)
Posted in Global Trend Indicators
Tagged bonds, Crude Oil, Food Prices, Global equity markets, Gold, Stocks, Wheat
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Jimmy (the Trader) Crack(s) Corn and Says Adios to QE2
Wow! December Corn futures finally opens with a 13.4 percent loss from Wednesday’s high to the opening low. Wheat has also been hammered. The WSJ reports, As recently as June 9, USDA officials had guessed that excessive rain and widespread … Continue reading
Have Policymakers Discovered the “Splendid Arbitrage”?
How ’bout a little summer Sunday humor (albeit a little nerdy) before getting back to the daily grind. Last week saw a global coordinated response to shaft specs in crude oil as many, including us, think the rise in … Continue reading
Posted in Commodities, Crude Oil, General Interest, Uncategorized
Tagged Crude Oil, Food Prices, Spendid Arbitrage
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Week in Review: Better Late Than Never
We’re a little late posting last week’s review. It’s history after today’s rally so not much to write about. Do note the weakness in Mexico, however. Brazil, Korea, and the Shanghai showing relative strength due to expectations of manufacturing shift … Continue reading
The Global Pain of Rising Food Prices
We found some excellent data from a March 2010 USDA report on cross-country food expenditures and to no surprise lower income countries are getting slammed by the recent price spike. The table is fairly self-explanatory showing the proportion of expenditures … Continue reading
Posted in Commodities, Economics, Geopolitical, Policy, Politics
Tagged Commodities, Cross-country food expenditures, Food Prices
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