The CBOT was mixed with soybeans and products sharply lower after yesterday hammered the market with surprisingly good crop conditions ratings and a bearish Oilseed Crushing report. Corn futures were mostly along for the ride and lower while wheat traded a mixed day with the KCBT market rising another 4 cents. Technical action in wheat remains supportive and suggests that there is unfinished business left above today’s close. Yesterday’s Grain and Oilseeds Crushing report from USDA leaned bearish the soy complex today. Soybean crushings were below expectations and the slowest rate since June 2019. Higher prices and tight supplies slowed the crush, and a similar trend was reflected in soyoil stocks. Soyoil stocks were well...
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...
An amendment to the U.S. House farm bill, aiming to remove the Save Our Bacon Act language in Section 12006 that would have stripped language to prohibit California’s Proposition 12, Massachusetts’ Question 3, and up to 500 state agricultural laws across the country, was blocked by...
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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.