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...While private equity and infrastructure funds are collecting investor money by the barge-load, there is far more political risk to their business models than in the recent past....
...CME exchanges list leading futures contracts on US interest rates, equity indices, oil, grains and other markets....
...The other is understanding how to generate returns from speciality crops when their sprawling networks of silos, trucks, barges, ships and industrial-scale mills were designed to digest massive volumes of...
...The system a year ago was struggling to cope with surging traffic in coal, grain and oil....
...Archer Daniels Midland, the owner of some shipping stations on the river, says that while flooding has hampered barge operations, “our extensive rail and road assets allow us to continue moving grain”....
...Indiana-based ACL is one of the US’ largest owner-operators of commercial barges, with some 2,300 barges and 120 tow boats working along 12,000 miles of the country’s inland waterways....
...Far from river barge networks, northern plains states rely heavily on railroads to move agricultural commodities....
...of grains in North America....
...The expansion has been spearheaded by Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, who has consolidated control of the 163-year-old trading house since the death of her husband Robert Louis-Dreyfus in 2009....
...Izzy notes it turns out similar activities and concerns were very much rife in the grain markets in the 1920s as well....
...Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa said: “I share the concerns of many family farmers and independent producers that the agriculture industry has consolidated to the point where many smaller market participants...
...Grain and petrochemicals worth billions of dollars risk being marooned far from market, barge operators and grain exporters have warned, as falling Mississippi water levels threaten to close the river to...
...LDC said that its grain and oilseed division had experienced a strong year, with oilseed trading enjoying a “stellar success”....
...Howard Glaser, New York state’s director of operations, said the city’s port was reopening on Thursday, bringing 200 barges of fuel that would help ease petrol shortages....
...While Tata does not release consolidated earnings, it is easy to identify the main engines of the group’s profit....
...The industry is largely consolidated, but still a few grain traders remain independent and could become takeover targets....
...Demand for grain and oilseeds keeps marching ahead with the dual demographic waves of more mouths to feed and more people in the developing world attaining the wealth for western levels of protein consumption...
...He and other traders involved in physical commodity trading also claim it gives them an information edge, maintaining access to operators of grain elevators, river barges and export terminals, for example...
...Potash Corp and Mosaic, leaders in the highly consolidated industry, have long been rumoured as top targets for BHP....
...Gold prices consolidated above $900 an ounce on a weaker US dollar and further interest rate cuts by central banks. Spot bullion in London closed the week above $910 an ounce, up 2.8 per cent....
...The show would be launched from two barges in the mouth of the river, just where it enters the Chesapeake Bay....
...Oil prices dipped on Friday as traders awaited the outcome of an Opec gathering this weekend while gold consolidated at the end of a difficult week, dominated by concerns about the outlook for demand for...
...Oil prices consolidated around the $100 level on Tuesday but gold, base metals and agricultural commodities staged a recovery after last week’s sell-off....
...Gold consolidated around the $800 level, ending European trading little changed at $802.90....
...Smithfield, the largest US pork producer is to reduce its sow herd by 4 to 5 per cent, due to high grain prices and poor margins, confirming that high corn prices are causing demand destruction....
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