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Black Sea Regional Analysis

Russian Grain Markets: 30 January – 5 February 2013 Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund put up 64,935 MT of grains for exchange trading on 5 February 2013.As of 5 February, there have been 328 accredited participants during the course of the public commodity interventions. Since the beginning of these interventions in 2012, the public intervention fund has sold 1.625 MMT of grain on the stock exchange for a general sum of 13.571 billion Russian rubles. Negative Central Meteorological Office Forecast Russia's Central Meteorological Office forecasts a possible decrease of the winter grain harvest as a result of unfavorable weather conditions during the planting and vegetation periods. There was a lack of rain in the fall, e...

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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.

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