An article of interest in Monday’s Wall Street Journal cited the ongoing survey conducted byDeutsche Bank AG that tracks the value and total return performance of 70 different asset classes. Total returns include price movements and income received from items such as dividends, interest, and bond coupons. The asset classes followed are a diverse group that includes stocks, bonds, currencies, cryptocurrencies, credit markets and commodities. Deutsche Bank has been conducting this tracking survey since 1901. On average, the total returns from about 70 percent of the different asset classes tend to move in the same direction at the same time. So far in 2019, however, nearly 90 percent of them have shown positive total returns. Bitcoin l...
What You Need to Know Today: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva secured reelection on Sunday, defeating right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro despite trailing in the first round of voting. The surprise victory triggered a sharp selloff in Brazilian financial market...
The 2026 midterm elections are a week from tomorrow, but early voting has been taking place for weeks. At stake is control of Congress, including the House of Representatives, where all 435 seats are contested, and the Senate, where approximately one-third of the seats are up for election. Farm...
Key Takeaways: Total U.S. crop acres (excluding hay) are forecast to expand fractionally this year due to greater oilseed crop and winter wheat plantings. One of the key drivers of this year’s crop outlook is input costs, and crops with a lower cost profile have an advantage in producers...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.