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The grain trade war between Moscow and Cairo took a fresh twist this week, following the announcement during President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Egypt on Tuesday that the two governments have agreed on terms for direct,
Full story...Fears of speculators’ influence on commodity market prices are now being shared by the US government, despite the scepticism voiced in the Bush years. The Obama administration plans to extend the surveillance of hedge funds on
Full story...An old cliché it may be, but Cranswick does not mind the one about sows’ ears and silk purses at all. The pig meat producer is having an excellent year – it won the 2009 Meat Manufacturer award; renegotiated its bank facilities;
Full story...Green-shoot-watchers noted that shipping markets’ barometer, the Baltic Dry Index, had another good week, breaking up through the 4,000 barrier for the second time in June. The level was 17 per cent higher than a week ago, and
Full story...Russia's consumer protection service has issued a ban on imports of milk and dairy products from Belarus. Although the reason given publicly appears to apply to imports from the Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia, their milk trade
Full story...Hedge funds and other large investors are leading a surge of commodities investment and there is more to come, according to Barclays last week. Confidence is rising that the worst recession since World War II is ending and there
Full story...A quick look at the share price chart shows that the price of New Britain Palm Oil is the same as last September when the price of palm oil was falling in line with every other commodity as a result of the financial shambles
Full story...The Russian government and the association representing Russian grain exporters in Moscow appear to have backed down from claims that Egypt wrongfully seized several cargoes of Russian wheat last month.
Full story...After yet another rise in shipping markets and a forecast of more rises to come was given by broker Breamar Seascope because of record purchases by China in the last two months. By the year end, however, it predicts that prices
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Origo Resource Partners, an AIM listed company which primarily invests in companies with significant assets in the natural resource sectors of China and India, has announced that Primary Holdings International is to merge with
Full story...The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of shipping costs for commodities, climbed every day in May to post its biggest monthly advance on record – 96 per cent. The index tracking transport costs on international trade routes added 196
Full story...Russia has seized a shipment of Egyptian oranges at Novorossiysk port, after discovering Mediterranean fruit-fly infestation. The orange move has been reported in the Russian media as tit-for-tat for Egyptian moves to seize three
Full story...France remains the top beneficiary of the EU’s Common Agriculture Policy, with EUR10.4billion, even if the five of the largest individual subsidy payments went to Italians last year. The figures came from Farmsubsidy, a network
Full story...The president of the Russian grain exporters' association went on the offensive against Egypt yesterday, charging the Egyptian government has so far failed to report any findings, or lodge any claims, against Russian wheat
Full story...Here is a note just put out by Frazer Thompson, chief executive of English Wines. It is just the sort of thing shareholders in this PLUS listed company need if they are to maintain an interest in shares which have not shown much
Full story...A warning that the quest for agriculture land by rich countries seeking to improve their food and fuel security could bring social unrest came last week from the US-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). So
Full story...There is trouble in Europe’s dairies. This looks like being another summer of militant action by farmers on the continent, and in the UK they are likely to vote with their feet and leave the sector. The reason is yet another cut
Full story...Another week of good news kept agriculture commodities on speculators’ buy lists. Fears for the global economy and swine flu forgotten, traders focused on the signs of recovery, a weaker dollar and relatively positive results
Full story...Speculators are back in commodities. Even hog prices surged on Friday as funds moved in to bargain hunt. However, not even renaming swine flu as Virus H1NI was able to stop a panic in the supermarkets as shopper veered sharply
Full story...In the global marketplace for potash there are none sharper at spotting a bargain than the Chinese. That’s because Chinese farmers, and the state fertilizer distributors, comprise the world’s largest consumers and importers of
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