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Black Sea Regional Analysis

Russian Grain Markets: 17 – 21 February 2025 The market remained bullish with some regional deviations. Corn and barley prices are frozen. The export market remains the key driver, and the world is watching several factors including remaining stocks of wheat as well as the status of the winter wheat crop. With the recent geopolitical moves concerning the war in Ukraine and negotiations between Russia and the U.S., the world has noticed several dramatic changes in the attitude to this war which is also affecting many economic sectors of life in Russia. The Russian RUB continued recovering after a prolonged devaluation of the U.S. dollar and the Chinese yuan. Natural oil prices also recovered to a certain extent helping the Russian econ...

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