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grains

Market wheats itself

Carlsberg don’t do exposure to the wheat crisis, but if they did… oh. They do:

As do Heineken, after Russia moved to ban grain exports on Thursday:

Yes, we know hops are made from barley beers are made from hops and barley, More…

Whatever happened to Deutsche’s ETN liquidation?

Petromatrix’s Olivier Jakob evaluates CFTC weekly trader data on a regular basis, and one thing he was quite looking forward to analysing was the liquidation of Deutsche Bank’s exchange-traded-note — the PowerShares DB Crude Oil Double Long (DXO). More…

That commodity ETF effect, in grains

There’s been a spate of commotion this week in the world of commodity ETFs, or ETPs (exchange traded products) as they are fast becoming known.

It comes in the shape of a CFTC ruling that resulted in two Deutsche Bank PowerShares commodity funds, More…

Calm down, people – swine flu does not affect livestock

Dennis Gartman of the Gartman Letter notes on Monday morning the degree to which swine flu ‘news-telling’ itself has become something of a pandemic.

Unsurprisingly, he notes,  commodity prices have been affected. More…