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29 May 2018

What happened last week: There is nothing changing in the market with the fundamental parameters remaining the same. Each week we listen to the same stories, we collect the same information, and we read the...

The Leather Pipeline - 29.05.18

Macroeconomics The past two weeks were once again not very exciting in terms of politics and the economy. Politics made more headlines than the financial markets. We considers the main events of the past...

22 May 2018

German Perspective - 22.05.18

What happened this week: History is repeating itself and has been for about the last two months. Success in the leather business is focused on a few isolated segments and the rest continues to struggle with...

US Perspective—22.05.18

Courtesy of The Maxfield Report www.themaxfieldreport.com Packers entered last week with offer lists that were well populated. There were numerous selections offered for prompt shipment, while shipping...

15 May 2018

German Perspective – 15.05.18

What happened last week: We cannot see anything really changing in the market. The main problem is still China, in particular the north of the country, where it seems the import traders, wet blue producers,...

US Perspective - 15.05.18

Courtesy of The Maxfield Report www.themaxfieldreport.com Reports from members of the big packer trade claim packers came into last week with offer lists which, for the most part, appeared in line with the...

The Leather Pipeline - 15.05.18

Macroeconomics The past two weeks saw little activity as far as politics or the financial markets were concerned. However, there were some important decisions which could have a deep impact on the markets...

08 May 2018

US Perspective—08.05.18

Courtesy of The Maxfield Report www.themaxfieldreport.com Last week saw packers once again in possession of large offer lists, with many selections also available for prompt shipment. It appeared that...

German Perspective - 08.05.18

What happened this week: One side of the hide business is totally boring. Nothing is happening, or at least nothing different from previous weeks. Asian markets have been very quiet this week, mainly due to...

01 May 2018

German Perspective – 01.05.18

What happened last week: In a market like this it is a big challenge to write market reports. We have no market or, better said, we have no market for all the hides which are being produced. Last week was a...

US Perspective - 01.05.18

Courtesy of The Maxfield Report www.themaxfieldreport.com Reports from members of the big packer trade claim most packers entered last week with offer lists that continued to be well populated. Most of them...

The Leather Pipeline - 01.05.18

Macroeconomics In the past two weeks, politics were no longer the main driver of the public attention. It is not that anything has really changed, but it seems the main actors had to take a little break. We...

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