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29 November 2005

What happened this week: This week was basically the same as the previous one. Sales were isolated and rather coincidental going to various destinations including some non-regular ones. The predominant area of ...

25 November 2005

Actual Slaughter Under Federal Inspection for W/E 12 /11/2005

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US Export sales for week ending 17/11/2005

Hides and Skins: Net sales of 275,200 pieces were 9 per cent below the previous week and 37 per cent under the prior 4-week average. Whole cattle hide sales of 255,300 pieces were mainly for South Korea...

24 November 2005

Latest UK slaughter statistics

UK figures supplied by Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Irish figures courtesy of Central Statistics Office of Ireland (CSO). All figures expressed as ‘000 head Table 1: UK ...

21 November 2005

Actual Slaughter Under Federal Inspection for W/E 05/11/2005

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US Export sales for week ending 10/11/05

Hides and Skins:Net sales of 301,500 pieces were 43 per cent below the previous week and 36 per cent under the prior 4-week average. Whole cattle hide sales of 301,300 pieces were mainly for China (111,000...

Friedrich Sturm Report - 18.11.05

What happened this week: A lot of last week’s enthusiasm proved to be false. The interest which had been seen in the previous week, and which was supposed to be carried over into this week, faded, and quite...

Discussions on Chinese import taxes cause concern

Macroeconomics As far the currency markets were concerned our forecasts were quite accurate. The US$ extended its gains against the euro and the trend only lost a small amount of its momentum when ...

14 November 2005

Friedrich Sturm Report - 11.11.05

What happened this week: This week we eventually got what we’d been asking for in the last one. It started very quietly at the beginning, but as the week progressed further, more activity started to come in....

Actual Slaughter Under Federal Inspection for W/E 29/10/2005

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US Export sales for week ending 03/11/2005

Hides and Skins: Net sales of 528,400 pieces were 23 per cent above the previous week and 26 per cent over the prior 4-week average. Whole cattle hide sales of 520,000 pieces were mainly for China...

07 November 2005

Friedrich Sturm Report - 04.11.05

What happened this week: The week after Bologna was reasonably quiet. The holiday on Tuesday in most Catholic parts of the world and the Muslim holidays kept matters pretty much under control and market...

Outlook remains bright

Macroeconomics The economic world delivered mixed information. The emerging markets continued to show healthy growth and industrial production rates (Indonesia, Philippines, Korea, etc), and the euro zones ...

04 November 2005

Actual Slaughter Under Federal Inspection for W/E 22/10/2005

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US Export sales for week ending 27/10/2005

Hides and Skins: Net sales of 430,000 pieces were 11 per cent below the previous week and 3 per cent under the prior 4-week average. Whole cattle hide sales of 430,400 pieces were mainly for China...

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