Week by week is passing. It is remarkable how long the hide and skin trade needs to accept the realities. Everyone just picks out what suits, which is positive news for suppliers.
There are still quite a...
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April 2016The Pipeline
26 April 2016
German Perspective - 26.04.16
US Perspective—26.04.16
Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
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Big packers have continued their efforts to convey a firm tone to the market, countering the lower ideas of traders with full asking prices and, in...
19 April 2016
German Perspective - 19.04.16
What happened this week: Another week has passed and from a European perspective very little has happened. The market situation remains the same as it has been for almost a year now. Leather consumption in...
US Perspective—19.04.16
Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
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Last week saw the big packer market offer some conflicting and confusing reports. Packers were conveying messages that the market remained on firm...
The Leather Pipeline - 19.04.16
Macroeconomics
The past two weeks have been pretty uneventful. The financial community has no big story to focus on and this means that the movements on the markets remain within narrow ranges.
There was...
12 April 2016
German Perspective - 12.04.16
Another week has passed and most people will have returned home from their trips to Asia. Some my have found plenty of work on their desks, others less but still enough to fill the first days after their...
US Perspective—12.04.16
Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
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Various members of the big packer trade are of the opinion that the market exhibited signs of losing some momentum last week, in spite of concerted...
05 April 2016
US Perspective - 5.4.16
Courtesy of The Maxfield Report
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Reports from members of the big packer trade claim that last week was not a particularly busy week of trading for packers, especially those who were...
German Perspective - 05.04.16
What happened this week: It was pretty tempting to use April Fool’s Day to write a ‘special version’ of our report about the week in general and about the 2016 APLF fair in particular. There...
The Leather Pipeline - 05.04.16
Macroeconomics
The financial markets have remained reasonably quiet over the past two weeks. The Federal Reserve in the US has clearly indicated that quick rises of interest rates there cannot be expected,...