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...Markets Briefing: Wheat and nickel futures prices hit record highs today as the war in Ukraine leads to tumult in commodities market....
...In the distance glows a sunlit field of tall wheat, a few rushing vertical brushstrokes. It is high noon; time stands still. Constable painted this at 50: “emotion recollected in tranquillity”....
...Soon, we are transported across the great plains of Thessaly, the rolling wheat fields bumping up against the foothills of the Pindus Mountains....
...When industrialists saw all the mountains of wheat piling up at rail stations, they sold equities — and the market crashed....
...You can melt and cool copper, or scatter and then rebuild a pile of wheat, and no great harm will come to either....
...The plant uses local wheat that is too low grade for human consumption and destined for animal feed....
...The proposal marks a watershed in a years-long debate about the environmental merits of fuels derived from crops such as rapeseed, palm oil and wheat....
...Wheat, corn and soyabean prices have jumped by between 25 and 45 per cent since June, even after a sharp fall on Monday amid improved weather forecasts....
...The company will transfer some GM crop development to the US but stop work on crops targeted at the European market – four varieties of potato and one of wheat....
...Joshua Raymond at City Index says spread betters have started to take an interest in how the impact of soft commodities such as wheat and cotton is being used to monitor the performance of certain stocks...
...Higher food prices (wheat is up 95 per cent since last June) helped trigger regime-changing discontent in north Africa and the Middle East....
...It worked so well that by the 1980s Europe was storing lakes of surplus wine, and mountains of butter and wheat bought from farmers....
...Franklin, his older brother, is editor of the magazine The New Republic; his younger brother, Joshua, is a journalist who is working on a book about memory....
...Joshua Chaffin is the FT’s Brussels correspondent The FT’s restaurant promotion ‘Take a Friend for a Fiver’ launches on Saturday....
...Since December, wheat prices have risen 15 per cent, corn 17 per cent and soyabean 22 per cent....
...“We had a lot of orders to sell if oil reached $100 a barrel,” says Joshua Raymond, sales trades City Index....
...It extends to the foreign currency markets where Gideon Gono, the central bank governor, is scrambling to find the hard currency needed to import 1m tonnes of maize and wheat....
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