soft commodity
noun[C]
ukusFINANCE,STOCK MARKET
acommodityproductthat is acrop, such assugarorcoffee,ratherthan one such asoilorcoal:
Thepricesofsoftcommoditiessuch ascoffeehaveremainedstagnant.
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The company specialises within the cocoa and coffee markets, managing investments insoftcommodityand equity hedge funds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It employs satellite crop monitoring and provides reports on vegetation index dynamics, precise weather forecasts andsoftcommoditymarket information.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Cocoa is the world's smallestsoftcommoditymarket.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In contrast, a perishable orsoftcommoditydoes not allow this arbitrage the cost of storage is effectively higher than the expected future price of the commodity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Soft commodities are agricultural products such as wheat, coffee, cocoa and sugar.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, many commodities markets are frequently in backwardation, especially when the seasonal aspect is taken into consideration, e.g., perishable and/or soft commodities.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Soft commodities have been known to adopt a backwardation trend until the late 1990s when futures were actively traded.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.We deal in all sorts of soft commodities and in investment markets, many of which are priced in dollars.
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