India's peanut-in-shell MSP for the 2016/17 season was fixed at $629/MT in June 2016. However, GOI’s first advanced estimates of September 2016 have projected a 21.68 percent increase in kharif production versus last year. With a higher available supply now in certain areas, many of the market prices have dropped below that MSP. India’s Unsteady Sugar Situation The sugar season starts next week, and sugarcane growers have demanded a higher price for their production. The Fair Remunerative Price (FRP) was left unchanged for 2016/17 at $34.32/MT for recovery of 9.5 percent. However, the sugar mills would pay a small premium if the recovery was higher. The FRP was fixed when the price of sugar was still good and the sector was under a...
The corn and soy complex closed higher, with the wheat market mixed, as winter wheat closed up but spring wheat and livestock ended lower. Part of the strength for corn and soybeans may have been a weather premium, as crop planting has started out fast but warm weather has been slow to develop...
Key Market Insights Macros: Inflation isn’t cooling — it’s moving higher again. March PCE inflation (Personal Consumption Expenditures index — the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation) rose 0.7 percent month-over-month, pushing the annual rate to 3.5 percent, the h...
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