Hedge funds wrong-footed on cocoa, soy, sugar bets
Hedge funds, whose "disastrous" March bet on corn was highlighted last week, face losses on reversals in cocoa, soybeans and sugar derivatives too |
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Morgan Stanley, USDA give comfort to soybean bulls
Morgan Stanley offers supportive comment on old-crop soybean futures, and the USDA on new-crop, following a series of cuts to banks' price forecasts |
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Goldman Sachs slashes corn and soy price forecasts
Crops offer the best opportunities for profit among agricultural commodities - for investors willing to go short, the bank says |
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Agrimoney.com wins prestigious media award
Agrimoney.com is named best finance and business website at the Online Media Awards, whose other winners include the BBC, New York Times and Reuters |
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Hedge funds may be retreating from ag commodities
Ann Berg, a former director at the Chicago grains exchange, says that analysis of regulatory data "illustrates a change in hedge fund behaviour" |
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Poor weather cuts hopes for EU rapeseed harvest
US farm officials downgrade their forecast for the world's biggest rapeseed harvest - converging with an estimate from Oil World upgraded on Tuesday |
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Corn prices tumble as US stands by big crop idea
US farm officials cut estimates for the corn harvest, but not by nearly as much as investors had expected. Corn prices dip, weighing on soy, wheat too |
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Rabo, StanChart downplay risk of palm price hiccup
Palm oil prices should be able, at least, to hang on to recent gains, the banks say - besides clashing in the reasoning behind their forecasts |
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Corn sowing headway fails to quash market jitters
US farmers sowed more corn last week than many investors expected. But a survey shows increasing abandonment nonetheless. Fears remain over soy too |
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Goldman calls time on winning soy crush bet
The bank recommends closing a bet on falling soybean crush margins, which face upward pressure as Argentine strike fears lift soymeal prices |
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Soy, wheat lead bullish turn in hedge fund ag bets
Bearish bets by speculators on corn and many soft commodities are outnumbered by a bullish shift in cocoa, soybeans and, surprisingly, wheat positions |
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China corn, soy imports to fall short of US hopes
China's corn and oilseed imports will fall well short of US forecasts, a major report says. Cotton, sugar prospects are bleak too, but not beef, dairy |
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