Lump of Coal About 17 countries plus the EU presently have national carbon pricing. Some countries are threatening border taxes to prevent so-called carbon leakage, whereby countries with less punitive policies on carbon would otherwise have a competitive advantage. Critics have charged that such measures would likely violate the WTO. Perhaps reinforcing that notion, World Trade Organization Deputy Director-General Jean-Marie Paugam said this week that a global carbon price is the “first, best approach” to addressing climate change. This echoes the OECD effort to adopt a global minimum corporate tax, which remains in limbo. Achieving a global agreement on taxing carbon and at what level likely proves to be even more daunting th...
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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