Hints and tips:
...This measure is based on the two-year Tips market, which is thin and must be taken with a grain of salt....
...“Microscopic interest rates, like grains of sand at the beach, had gotten into everything,” he wrote....
...Selling the debt would also run against the grain in credit markets, as fears of further interest rate rises from the Federal Reserve has driven up bond yields and reduced prices....
...For example, this newer document lists Geos LLC, a Russian private company headquartered in Novorossiysk, as the seller....
...And here’s a smart listen: Russia has been running a massive grain-looting scheme from occupied Ukraine as the war triggers a food crisis in the region....
...Barclays has appointed Corinne Grain as a managing director in senior relationship management, based in Paris....
...The increase came as European natural gas, a fuel that is widely used across industry, and wheat, a key grain in food production, reached record highs....
...Cargill’s $62bn in assets include grain silos, bulk vessel fleets and food processing plants....
...Each of us can now, thanks to surveillance capitalism, be separated like individual grains of sand....
...Marubeni also owns Columbia Grain, another crop merchant with silos in the Midwest....
...Grains and oilseeds trader Bunge has hired Greg Heckman as its interim chief executive, replacing Soren Schroder, the FT reported. Orrick, a law firm, has hired Matthew Gemello, as a partner....
...One of the fund industry’s staunchest commodities buyers is allowing itself to sell, after the slump in energy, metals and grains halved the value of its assets....
...To be fair to Wealthfront, they do mention that one should take the results with a “with a significant grain (perhaps even a hill) of salt”....
...The reports, known as Commitments of Traders, provide information about the positioning in futures markets from oil to grain, across four categories: commercial companies, Wall Street swap dealers, money...
...The company has faced legal action from US farmers and grain exporters after selling a genetically-modified corn strain that hadn’t been approved by China, leading the country to block corn imports from...
...In the US, food prices registered their first annual drop in nearly 50 years in 2016 — the result of lower oil and grain prices, which was only exacerbated by aggressive discounting....
...With grain prices low and foreign demand robust, plants are still making a profit. Ringneck Energy is raising equity to build a $150m, 80m-gallon ethanol plant in Onida, South Dakota....
...It also purchased a chocolate business for $440m, and invested in a port on the Black Sea, an important region for grain exports....
...Gavilon, one of the largest US grain handlers, has just named its second new chief executive in less than two years....
...Likewise, the National Grain and Feed Association warned that grain merchants could wind up being required to register as automated traders, as some have invested in direct exchange access “simply to attempt...
...Grains and metals traders have seen much calmer markets, however, with prices grinding slowly lower....
...As for disposals, Noble could sell all or part of its 49 per cent stake in its agricultural joint venture with Cofco, the state-owned Chinese grain trader....
...According to the Hong-Kong based company, selling its 49 per cent stake in Noble Agri to Cofco, China’s state-backed grain business, would place its “financial metrics . . ....
...“We saw performance gains in key global businesses, including animal nutrition, grain and oilseed processing, most of our poultry operations, and several food ingredients categories,” he said....
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