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Mercosur Regional Analysis

Soybeans Last week was another boring one for soybean trading. Brazil’s market is at a standstill with almost no trades, despite some cargoes for September and October FOB. Chinese buyers are totally silent since they have zero or negative crush margins, leaving no company willing to take the risk of buying. The ongoing trade war adds another huge dimension of uncertainty as its intensity seems to gyrate daily. In the meantime, Chinese crushers have plenty of soybeans in stocks at ports plus big shipment volumes arriving that were shipped in July. The market believes that Chinese crushers are fully covered for August, and almost covered for September. From October onwards they are widely open, but they still have time and things can...

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From WPI Consulting

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.

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