News Updates JORDAN AND TUNISIA, NEW EBRD MEMBERS Jordan and Tunisia are the newest members of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and are being considered for EBRD investments in the region. The EBRD had announced in early 2011 that it intended to expand its work beyond Eastern and Central Europe to include investments in North Africa.Both Egypt and Morocco are members and founding members of the EBRD when the bank was formed in 1991, but they had not benefited from bank investments in the past because they were beyond its investment mandate.The EBRD is now expected to invest in all four North African member countries: Egypt, Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia. UKRAINE'S DECEMBER EXPORTS Ukraine reports about 2 MMT of grain e...
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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