Forbes: 3 Reasons Elizabeth Warren’s Price Gouging War Doesn’t Make Sense

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

In fact, the whole effort is nonsensical, backwards, and self-defeating, least from an economics viewpoint. Read more here.

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Barron's: Lower Prices Are Brewing for Coffee. Thank the Weather Forecast.

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Relief is at hand for coffee lovers who have been blighted by soaring prices for the past year or so. For that, they can thank favorable weather in South America and lower-than-expected demand growth.

“In the absence of a weather event, prices are likely to trend down,” says Carlos Mera, the head of agricultural commodities market research at Rabobank in London. Read more here.

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CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor: #Markets: Wheat spikes; & What is to be done?

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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Barron's: An Epic Wheat Rally Could Soon End. Here’s How to Play It.

By SIMON CONSTABLE

The scorching-hot wheat market looks set for a cool-down. A combination of drought, war, and a wheat export ban in India has sent prices for the grain sky high. But they might now be reaching the end of what has been an epic rally, experts say.

“The market is so overbought right now,” says Jim Roemer, agricultural expert and author of the Weather Wealth newsletter. “The market squeeze should begin to end in June or July.” Read more here.

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CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor: #Ukraine -- The bountiful soybean crop and the looming global famine

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E.On: Why going green is fast becoming a necessity in the C-Suite

By SIMON CONSTABLE

The world changed in the autumn of 2021. It happened when many of the great and the good flocked to Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit. At those meetings, global political leaders and climate activists made pledges to do what was necessary to ensure environmentally sustainable economic growth. In other words, going ‘green’ had officially gone mainstream in a big way.

It wasn't just politicians and activists. Investors who had once evaluated companies solely on after-tax profits have also changed. Now they want the businesses in which they invest to adopt sustainable business practices as soon as possible. It's something that CEOs and other top leaders need to understand. Eventually, the matter will have a bearing on whether companies get corporate financing or whether they don't. Read more here.

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WABC Radio: Morano in the Morning - Discussing Crypto

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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