What happened this week: The week developed differently from the general sentiment. The sentiment was totally bullish while business was pretty slow. Well, one should not generalise too much. There is no...
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January 2011The Pipeline
25 January 2011
German Perspective—25.01.11
US Perspective–25.01.11
The Jacobsen Commentary and Market Opinion
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The market’s momentum is carrying the recent wave of high prices forward. In this past week a decent amount of sales were made with...
Market Intelligence—25.01.11
Macroeconomics
The last two weeks were a good example of how quickly the focus and consequences can change in today’s media-driven world.
The European debt crisis fell into the background and although...
US export sales for week ending 18.01.11
The Jacobsen Commentary and Market Opinion
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The market’s momentum is carrying the recent wave of high prices forward. A decent amount of sales were made at the end of the week...
US export sales for week ending 13.01.11
Hides and Skins: Net sales of 565,900 pieces were reported for delivery in 2011. Whole cattle hides of 552,500 pieces were primarily for China (269,800 pieces), South Korea (114,300 pieces, including 1,200...
18 January 2011
German Perspective—18.01.11
What happened this week: This week was really crucial in many respects and we must hope that it was not a trigger to spoil the New Year. On one side, Germany has been shaken by the dioxin scandal in which...
US export sales for week ending 6 January 2011
Hides and Skins: Net sales for the 2011 marketing year (which began Jan. 1) were 499,100 pieces, including whole cattle hides of 495,900 pieces. The major buyers of whole cattle hides were China (273,200...
11 January 2011
US Perspective—11.01.11
The Jacobsen Commentary and Market Opinion
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The hide market in the first week of the year was solid, with prices steady to firm. Volume was mixed with an array of opinions from...
Market Intelligence—11.01.11
Macroeconomics
First of all we would like to wish all our readers a very happy, healthy and prosperous new year and wish you a lucky hand to deal with the challenges of the leather pipeline in 2011.
Finally...
German Perspective—11.01.11
What happened this week: The start of the new year was slow as we expected. European tanners were closed or busy with their end-of-year operations. Stocks are counted and valued and the accounts need to be...
US export sales for week ending 12/30/2010
Hides and Skins: Net sales of 124,000 pieces for delivery in 2010 were down 12% from the previous week and 72% from the prior four-week average. Whole cattle hides sales of 124,200 pieces—a marketing-year...