What happened this week: It has been a week of contrasts. While on one side a minority of players tried to beef the market up launching positive statements, sales activity was pretty slow. In some...
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September 2010The Pipeline
28 September 2010
German Perspective—28.09.10
21 September 2010
US Perspective—21.09.10
14 September 2010
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07 September 2010
28 September 2010
German Perspective—28.09.10
US Perspective—28.09.10
The Jacobsen Commentary and Market Opinion
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This week the hide market took a breather following two weeks with wet blue and whole hide sales in excess of 700,000. Even with...
21 September 2010
US Perspective—21.09.10
The Jacobsen Commentary and Market Opinion
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The week turned out to be another classic stand-off in the hide market. After improving their positions over the past couple of...
Market Intelligence—21.09.10
Macroeconomics
After the long summer break the markets are trying to return to something like normality. However the general pattern hasn’t changed much.
Investors are still seeking security, which is...
German Perspective—21.09.10
What happened this week: The week was a bit awkward. On one side business was pretty quiet and tanners were not really aggressively looking for hides, but boosted by some larger isolated deals the sales...
14 September 2010
German Perspective—14.09.10
What happened this week: The week after the All China Leather Exhibition in Shanghai turned out to be quiet, which wasn’t really a surprise because people were mostly either still travelling or returned home...
US Perspective—14.09.10
The Jacobsen Commentary and Market Opinion
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Buyers at the All China Leather Exhibition, ACLE, (September 1–3) sensed some softness in the hide market and, to a large extent,...
07 September 2010
German Perspective—07.09.10
What happened this week: The All China Leather Exhibition (ACLE) took place in Shanghai last week, closing its doors on Friday. The number of visitors, at least in the first two days, was very impressive and...
US Perspective—07.09.10
The Jacobsen Commentary and Market Opinion
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There was some decent activity in terms of quantity reported at the end of last week, despite the fact that a lot of people were en...
Market Intelligence—07.09.10
Macroeconomics
The financial markets are busy trying to evaluate the daily data coming in from the various markets and the main reason is to figure out if the US, Japanese and European Union economies are in...