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By Luzi Ann Javier and Michelle Yun, Bloomberg |
June 12, 2013
On a sunny March afternoon, 11 Chinese executives armed with digital cameras and iPads got out of a van on Brazil’s highway BR-163 to photograph soybean-loaded trucks headed to export terminals in the south.
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By Liam Vaughan |
April 14, 2013
Banks are leaving the panel that sets ISDAFix, the benchmark for the $379 trillion swaps market, as regulators probe suspected manipulation.
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By Candice Zachariahs, Bloomberg |
April 11, 2013
The smart money shows no sign of losing confidence in the Australian dollar as analysts belatedly acknowledge the appeal of a high-yielding currency with a world-beating developed economy.
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By Maria Kolesnikova, Bloomberg |
April 2, 2013
At a time when U.S. equities are trading near a record and the dollar is having its best start in three years, commodities will finish this quarter little changed from where they were at the end of 2012.
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By Nicholas Larkin and Isis Almeida, Bloomberg |
February 22, 2013
Sugar traders are the most bullish since October on speculation that the slump in prices to the lowest in 2 1/2 years will spur Brazilian millers to make more biofuel and less of the raw sweetener from cane.
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By Shruti Date Singh, Bloomberg |
January 17, 2013
Cargill Inc., the largest U.S. beef processor, will idle a Texas processing plant after the size of the cattle herd fell to a 60-year low and years of drought increased feed costs. Cattle futures dropped.
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By Katie Linsell, Bloomberg |
January 8, 2013
Euribor, the base rate for trillions of euros of lending, may face an exodus of contributors after Rabobank Groep’s departure, according to the banking lobby that administers the scandal-hit benchmark.
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By Elizabeth Campbell, Bloomberg |
October 9, 2012
U.S. milk production is headed for the biggest contraction in 12 years as a drought-fueled surge in feed costs drives more cows to slaughter.
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By Tony C. Dreibus, Bloomberg |
August 30, 2012
Kansas farmers are preparing to plant winter wheat into the driest soil since 1991 as three seasons of drought causes Dust Bowl conditions in the biggest growing state and global reserves fall to a four-year low.
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By Marvin G. Perez and Isis Almeida, Bloomberg |
April 3, 2012
The premium paid for arabica beans favored by Starbucks Corp. over the robusta used by Nestle SA may rally from a 20-month low because of a surge in supply from Vietnam, the biggest grower of the less costly coffee.
