Macroeconomics
The global situation is becoming pretty tricky now. While China, India and some other emerging markets are fighting with inflation, in the rest of the world the recovery is stable. There might ...
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February 2011The Pipeline
22 February 2011
15 February 2011
08 February 2011
German Perspective—08.02.11
01 February 2011
German Perspective—01.02.11
22 February 2011
Market Intelligence - 22.02.11
German Perspective - 22.02.11
What happened this week: This week the highest market priority was to digest the sharp price gains we have seen in the past weeks. The market trend was already firm for quite a while, but basically prices...
US Perspective – 22.02.11
The Jacobsen Commentary and Market Opinion
Courtesy of www.thejacobsen.com
This week’s hide market started slowly but picked up as the week rolled on. It was a classic standoff. Buyers just back to work...
15 February 2011
German Perspective—15.02.11
What happened this week: From a processor’s point of view Murphy’s law applied again this week. Some of the Gorilla males of the trade came out and began screaming and beating their chests to show how...
US Perspective–15.02.11
The Jacobsen Commentary and Market Opinion
Courtesy of www.thejacobsen.com
The US hide market this week ran into resistance which led some buyers to walk away from increased offerings and resulted in lower...
08 February 2011
German Perspective—08.02.11
What happened this week: From the demand side the market was again quiet this week. Asia is celebrating their Lunar New Year festival and most people are taking a break this time. It seems, that hopes that the ...
US Perspective–08.02.11
The Jacobsen Commentary and Market Opinion
Courtesy of www.thejacobsen.com
Although most people agree that last week was relatively quiet with most of the Asian customers out of the market on holiday for the...
Market Intelligence—08.02.11
Macroeconomics
The past two weeks have been determined by the turbulences in Egypt and the question of possible uprisings in other countries in the Middle East and the threat of violence. Despite a number of...
01 February 2011
German Perspective—01.02.11
What happened this week: This week was pretty much a copy of the last one. Reasonably quiet without any effect on the general market sentiment, which is still pretty positive. There is no disputing the...
US Perspective–01.02.11
This past week’s hide market, although slightly less active than the previous couple of weeks, continued to show a bearish side. With steer hides up against the $80 FOB or $87-$88 C&F price levels, pundits ...