Whereas the short decrease of the quotations on the futures market had stimulated the closure of several contracts during the previous week, prices for medium staple cotton returned to a firm tendency within the course of this week and ...
Tags: Cotton Prices, Cotton
A restrained demand was registered during the past week since several spinning industries maintained their wait-and-see attitude due to the continuously volatile market. Some contracts were closed, however, especially for near dates, ...
Tags: Cotton, Restrained Demand
The market has felt deflated ever since the wild ride on March 26, during which the spot contract shot up to a high of 97.35 cents/lb before dropping more than 500 points below that level by the end of the session. From a technical ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Xinjiang cotton
There was no shortage of news for the cotton market to digest this week as ICE futures lost over 300 pts basis the K4 contract. Losses on Monday were re-couped on Tuesday ahead of the USDA's monthly WASDE report, which contained few ...
The Government of Peru has made it clear that it is not in favour of giving subsidies for cotton farming, and instead it is willing to promote growing of other crops to remain competitive in the market. The Government cannot persist ...
Tags: Peruvian Govt, Cotton Farming, Subsidies
News on higher than expected support for farmers in Xinjiang, sales from the Chinese National Reserve at attractive prices, slightly decreasing US-exports as well as considerably lower prices for the competing fibre polyester have ...
Tags: CIF Bremen, textile industry
Corn export demand has risen in the last month, and that's likely to push futures prices to a range of about 5 to 15 cents higher than a month ago, according to Wednesday's USDA-NASS World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Corn
Although this week’s trading action may have felt like a victory for the bears, the chart reveals that the market has actually moved sideways in the last 15 sessions, with May closing in a tight range between 91 and 94 cents since ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Mixed Trends, balance sheet
Despite volatile trading, ICE Cotton futures settled only slightly higher this week at 93.74 c/lbs basis the K4, and not much change is seen in the overall open interest. The week opened down sharply on Monday, followed by a 350 pts gain on ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Volatile Trading
The market has remained undecided as to where it wants to go next, with the last eleven sessions closing in a narrow range of just 166 points. The structure is still more or less the same in current crop futures, with specs and index funds ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, crop futures, on-call sales
ICE Cotton traded slightly higher this week despite the nearby cash market grinding to a virtual standstill. Current crop export sales were just enough to support the market, while the attractiveness of SH 2014 offers at 1000 pts less than ...
Tags: Cotton Trends, cash market, crop export
Over the last four years, a new crop of ‘Irish’ alcoholic beverage brands has gained popularity among Australian drinkers, while consumption of Guinness remains steady, according to market research organisation Roy Morgan ...
Domestic ethanol prices in center-south Brazil retreated on Friday following the early start of the 2014-15 harvest. The ex-mill Ribeirao hydrous ethanol assessment decreased to R$1,600/cu m -- the lowest in almost a month as traders ...
Technical reasons and rising interest to invest in cotton seemed to cause the movements on the futures market. The quotations on the European market were also influenced by better than expected shipping data from the world’s ...
ICE Cotton stayed in an uptrend this week with K4 holding ground and settling at 92.19, up over 100 pts. Futures, with the help of a friendly spec contingent that had anticipated the USDA’s lowering of 13/14 carry-out estimate (and ...