Public Policy Xi Looks To Third Term as Golden Holiday Celebration Arrives With China’s Communist Party set to hold its 20th national congress on 16 October, questions abound about whether Xi’s unprecedented third term will produce results. The track record so far in 2022 has been one of the worst economic environment’s for the country in the past two decades. With Q2 gross domestic product advancing by just .4 percent year-on-year and the outlook for Q3 projecting an uptick of just .8 percent, due the severe real estate crisis, ongoing lockdowns, and lackluster consumer spending, market confidence is at low point not seen since the 1990s. When Xi came to power in 2013, his new administration put forth a broad pla...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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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.