Commodities
Mixed Bag For Commodities, With Energy Up and Agriculture, Base Metals Down
The weekly COT report of the CFTC indicates that speculators have turned net long on cocoa, which explains the +8.4% performance in the last 10 days (still down 5% year-to-date)
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S&P GSCI TOTAL RETURN INDEX | Sources: ϕpost, FactSet data
NOTABLE GAINERS
- EEX European-Carbon- Secondary Trading up 4.0% (YTD: 76.3%)
- ICE Europe CO2 EUA Yearly up 4.0% (YTD: 73.1%)
- Pork Primal Cutout Butt up 3.8% (YTD: 86.0%)
- ICE Europe Brent Crude up 2.5% (YTD: 32.6%)
NOTABLE LOSERS
- DCE Iron Ore down -9.7% (YTD: 14.6%)
- SMM Rare Earth Terbium Metal Spot Price Daily down -9.7% (YTD: -8.5%)
- Pork Primal Cutout Picnic down -6.6% (YTD: 53.9%)
- SHFE Rebar down -5.8% (YTD: 32.6%)
- SHFE Rubber down -5.1% (YTD: -4.5%)
- CBoT Corn down -4.7% (YTD: 41.5%)
- DCE RBD Palm Oil down -4.7% (YTD: 24.4%)
NET POSITIONS OF MANAGED MONEY (WEEKLY CFTC REPORT)
ENERGY
- Crude, Light Sweet reduced net long position
- ICE Brent reduced net long position
- Gasoline reduced net long position
- No.2 Heating Oil increased net long position
- Gasoil increased net long position
- Henry Hub Nat Gas increased net long position
METALS
- Gold increased net long position
- Silver increased net long position
- Platinum reduced net long position
- Palladium reduced net long position
- Copper-Grade#1 reduced net long position
AGRICULTURE
- Wheat increased net long position
- Corn reduced net long position
- Rough Rice increased net long position
- Oats reduced net long position
- Soybeans increased net long position
- Soybean Oil reduced net long position
- Soybean Meal increased net long position
- Lean Hogs reduced net long position
- Live Cattle increased net long position
- Feeder Cattle reduced net short position
- Cocoa turned to net long
- Robusta Coffee increased net long position
- Frozen OJ increased net short position
- Sugar No.11 increased net long position
- White Sugar increased net long position
ENERGY
- WTI crude front month currently at US$ 65.37 per barrel, up 2.4% on the day (YTD: +34.7%); 6-month term structure in widening backwardation
- Brent crude front month currently at US$ 68.71 per barrel, up 2.5% on the day (YTD: +32.6%); 6-month term structure in widening backwardation
- Brent volatility at 34.5, up 5.7% on the day (12-month range: 24.7 - 76.6)
- Newcastle Coal (ICE Europe) currently at US$ 99.00 per tonne, down -2.0% on the day (YTD: +23.0%)
- Natural Gas (Henry Hub) currently at US$ 2.96 per MMBtu, down -0.4% on the day (YTD: +16.6%); 6-month term structure in widening backwardation
- Gasoline (NYMEX) currently at US$ 2.13 per gallon, up 1.5% on the day (YTD: +51.0%); 6-month term structure in tightening backwardation
- Low Sulphur Gasoil (ICE Europe) currently at US$ 557.25 per tonne, up 1.5% on the day (YTD: +32.4%); 6-month term structure in widening backwardation
BASE METALS
- Copper (COMEX) currently at US$ 4.67 per pound, down -0.9% on the day (YTD: +32.7%)
- Iron Ore (Dalian Commodity Exchange) currently at CNY 1,236.50 per tonne, down -9.7% on the day (YTD: +14.6%)
- Aluminium (Shanghai) currently at CNY 19,450 per tonne, down -0.9% on the day (YTD: +24.7%)
- Nickel (Shanghai) currently at CNY 128,790 per tonne, down -0.9% on the day (YTD: +4.1%)
- Lead (Shanghai) currently at CNY 15,050 per tonne, down -1.2% on the day (YTD: +2.9%)
- Rebar (Shanghai) currently at CNY 5,594 per tonne, down -5.8% on the day (YTD: +32.6%)
- Tin (Shanghai) currently at CNY 194,050 per tonne, up 0.1% on the day (YTD: +27.3%)
- Zinc (Shanghai) currently at CNY 22,190 per tonne, down -0.8% on the day (YTD: +5.4%)
- Refined Cobalt (Shanghai) spot price currently at CNY 346,500 per tonne, unchanged (YTD: +26.5%)
- Lithium (Shanghai) spot price currently at CNY 615,000 per tonne, unchanged (YTD: +26.8%)
PRECIOUS METALS
- Gold spot currently at US$ 1,842.18 per troy ounce, up 0.9% on the day (YTD: -2.9%)
- Gold 1-Month ATM implied volatility currently at 12.61, down -0.9% on the day (YTD: -19.0%)
- Silver spot currently at US$ 27.42 per troy ounce, up 1.3% on the day (YTD: +4.0%)
- Silver 1-Month ATM implied volatility currently at 27.88, down -0.4% on the day (YTD: -32.0%)
- Palladium spot currently at US$ 2,890.86 per troy ounce, up 1.0% on the day (YTD: +18.2%)
- Platinum spot currently at US$ 1,225.99 per troy ounce, up 1.5% on the day (YTD: +14.7%)
- Rhodium (Johnson Matthey, New York 09:30) currently at US$ 28,400 per troy ounce, unchanged (YTD: +66.6%)
- Iridium (Johnson Matthey, New York 09:30) currently at US$ 6,300 per troy ounce, unchanged (YTD: +142.3%)
AGRO
- Live Cattle (CME) currently at US$ 115.30 cents per pound, down 0.3% on the day (YTD: +2.1%)
- Lean Hogs (CME) currently at US$ 108.73 cents per pound, down -0.3% on the day (YTD: +58.2%)
- Rough Rice (CBOT) currently at US$ 13.61 cents per hundredweight, down -0.2% on the day (YTD: +7.5%)
- Soybeans Composite (CBOT) currently at US$ 1,586.25 cents per bushel, down -0.5% on the day (YTD: +21.9%)
- Corn (CBOT) currently at US$ 643.75 cents per bushel, down -4.7% on the day (YTD: +41.5%)
- Wheat Composite (CBOT) currently at US$ 707.25 cents per bushel, up 0.1% on the day (YTD: +13.5%)
- Sugar No.11 (ICE US) currently at US$ 16.96 cents per pound, down -0.9% on the day (YTD: +9.5%)
- Cotton No.2 (ICE US) currently at US$ 82.52 cents per pound, down -3.0% on the day (YTD: +5.5%)
- Cocoa (ICE US) currently at US$ 2,485 per tonne, up 0.5% on the day (YTD: -5.0%)
- Coffee Arabica (Colombia Excelso) currently at EUR 3,523 per tonne, down -0.6% on the day (YTD: +11.3%)
- Random Length Lumber (CME) currently at US$ 1,390.00 per 1,000 board feet, down -3.9% on the day (YTD: +79.4%)
- TSR 20 Rubber (Shanghai) currently at CNY 11,080 per tonne, unchanged (YTD: +10.9%)
- Soybean Oil Composite (CBOT) currently at US$ 67.58 cents per pound, up 0.5% on the day (YTD: +57.9%)
- Crude Palm Oil (Bursa Malaysia) currently at MYR 4,760 per tonne, up 0.3% on the day (YTD: +23.4%)
SHIPPING
- Baltic Dry Index (Baltic Exchange) currently at 2,939, down -4.5% on the day (YTD: +115.2%)
- Freightos China To North America West Coast Container Index currently at 5,650, unchanged (YTD: +34.5%)
- Freightos North America West Coast To China Container Index currently at 798, unchanged (YTD: +54.1%)
- Freightos North America East Coast To Europe Container Index currently at 478, unchanged (YTD: +31.7%)
- Freightos Europe To North America East Coast Container Index currently at 4,299, unchanged (YTD: +130.0%)
- Freightos China To North Europe Container Index currently at 8,345, unchanged (YTD: +47.4%)
- Freightos North Europe To China Container Index currently at 1,753, unchanged (YTD: +27.5%)
- Freightos Europe To South America West Coast Container Index currently at 3,054, unchanged (YTD: +80.5%)
CARBON EMISSION ALLOWANCES (CO2)
- EUA futures front month (European Energy Exchange) currently at EUR 56.65 per tonne, up 4.0% on the day (YTD: +73.1%)