TTIP Needs Coherence EU negotiators say that future Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations will be less burdened by the demands of the French because they obtained language potentially exempting cultural/audio-visual services from the outcome. However, those in the U.S. financial community and their regulators appear determined to neutralize the U.S. leverage advantage by demanding that financial services be exempted. There are now reportedly some members of Congress that say transatlantic financial regulations should harmonized. Based on direct experience, U.S. aggies could/should advise that resisting coherence is a short-term fools' game. Activists Lack Accountability Bravo to the British Advertising Stan...
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.