Latest commodities Insight & Analysis – Page 8
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Analysis & Features
Wholesale prices for dairy, meat, fish & poultry, fruit & veg, ingredients and packaging
Wholesale pricing information from Mintec across dairy & eggs, meat & poultry, fish, packaging and dry ingredients. Includes fruit & veg, skimmed milk powder, PET, cod and haddock as well as lamb, beef, pork and chicken
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Analysis & Features
Sultana and raisin prices significantly up on last year
Sultanas and raisin prices remain significantly inflated in comparison with last year, driven by high prices for dried grapes in California
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Poor lambing conditions continuing to affect price
Lamb prices in the UK have begun their seasonal decrease but remain higher than the same period last year
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Global sugar production falls
Sugar prices are up month on month as new forecasts put overall global production down 2%
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Analysis & Features
Threat of trade war ups South American soyabean prices
The Chicago Board of Trade’s prices for soyabeans have dropped by 16%-17%
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Booming EU supply set to deflate the price of sugar
EU sugar output will reach 19.5 million tonnes in the 2017/18 season
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Cotton price hiked by slowing production
Prices of cotton have risen amid concerns over slowing production, driven by reports of unfavourable weather conditions
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Analysis & Features
Citrus greening disease sends prices up
The impact of citrus greening disease has reduced the sweetness of oranges in the US
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Comment & Opinion
Algo-trading is a threat grocery has to take seriously
Markets such as cocoa and coffee are being targeted by short-term investors using computer-driven algorithmic trading, warns Violeta Stevens of Union Hand-Roasted Coffee
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Analysis & Features
Low coffee stocks see prices climb
Consecutive seasons of low production have left coffee stocks low over the past three years
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Analysis & Features
Madagascan vanilla prices past the peak
Panic over a vanilla shortage reached fever pitch this week
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Analysis & Features
Oil prices at highest level since 2015
Falling yields in Russia and OPEC member states has rattled oil markets
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Analysis & Features
Wet weather hinders spring crop planting
While last week’s sunshine has helped farmers plant some spring crops, more rain this week has further delayed planting
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Analysis & Features
Smaller US maize harvest hikes prices
Maize prices have increased on last month after new data suggested US farmers would plant fewer hectares of maize than was
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Analysis & Features
High demand over Easter pushes up lamb prices
Prices remain higher year on year driven by lower imports from New Zealand
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Action on cocoa output pushes up cocoa butter prices
The Ivory Coast Coffee and Cocoa Council last month suspended programmes for the 2017/18 season
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Analysis & Features
Palm oil prices fall as production rebounds
Palm oil was this week trading near 2,4000 Malaysian ringgit (£463) a tonne
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Analysis & Features
US soybean futures hit by tariffs tit-for-tat
America’s second -biggest crop got dragged into the looming trade war with China
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Analysis & Features
Beast from the East drives up electricity demand
Electricity prices shot up as the demand for heating increased
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Analysis & Features
Salmon prices pushed up in Chile and Norway
Salmon prices are up month on month due to concerns over potential algal blooms in Chile