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Agrimoney.com
Nov 18
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An early rally in Chicago crops gives way to profit-taking as fund buying dries up. Softs have better luck, exploiting a weaker dollar
CNBC
Nov 12
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"If you look at soft commodities, the big story of this year is that they really are laggards," Coast Sullenger, founder of Gaia Capital, said. "They have not participated in the rally and that's been very disappointing for a lot of people." These...
CNBC
Nov 12
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The outlook for a number of soft commodities is very strong, according to Nirgunan Tiruchelvam, equities analyst at RBS. He explains his upbeat outlook on this space, with CNBC's Chloe Cho.
Agrimoney.com
Nov 11
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A wave of optimism, which helps shares to year-highs, gets crops moving. But softs, rather than grains, gain most, notably in London as sterling sags
Agrimoney.com
Nov 10
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A late buying wave in Chicago adds to corn's gains and gets wheat back on its feet. Softs and European grains have no such luck. Coffee gets roasted
Commodity Online
Oct 16
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In the last twelve months wheat corn soybeans and the prices of many soft commodities and foodstuffs have fallen at the wholesale level. This has been due to a cool and rainy summer in the Midwestern U.S. and in Europe and a strong soy crop in...
Bloomberg
Oct 2
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A trading affiliate of OAO Silvinit,
Russia’s largest potash producer, said the company’s sales
volumes will recover to 2008 levels next year as demand from
farmers and prices of agricultural commodities rebound.
Agrimoney.com
Sep 23
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Corn loses 3% as doubts grow of a US frost next week to hamper the bumper Midwest crop. Among soft commodities, coffee hits a five-week high
Hard Assets Investor
Sep 9
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A director at CPM Group discusses potential unintended consequences if Congress limits speculative activity.
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The next agribusiness...
CNBC
Sep 7
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Green soft commodity prices, or agricultural prices, fell sharply on Friday. "Weather conditions are proving to be very, very beneficial, especially for US crops," Sudakshina Unnikrishnan from Barclays Capital said, adding supplies will be...
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This article describes a commodity traded on a commodities exchange. View articles referencing this commodity. |
Soft Commodities (or "Softs") refers to a specific, non-metal, non-energy set of commodities. Different financial services define soft commodities differently, though nearly all agree that the category includes cocoa, coffee, cotton, sugar, and orange juice. Often, the category is defined as tropical agricultural commodities, though the common classification of lumber as a soft commodity runs antithetical to this definition.
In this sense, it is perhaps more useful to think of the category in terms of what it contains and what it is NOT (metal commodities, energy commodities) rather than a single underlying definition.
On Wikinvest, Cocoa, Coffee, Cotton, Sugar, Orange Juice, and Lumber are all classified as "softs".
Soft Commodities On Wikinvest
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