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<ul><li>Soybean-Meal Oversupply Crisis Incoming? When you crush soybeans, you get one part of soy oil and another part of soy meal.</li><li>Per soybean crushed, you get something like an 80/20 meal to oil share.</li><li>While the soy oil part is currently in high demand due to a higher bioethanol requirement (Brazil increased the share from 14% to15% as of 2025), there isn’t an additional demand driver for soy meal.</li></ul>

Soybean-Meal Oversupply Crisis Incoming? When you crush soybeans, you get one part of soy oil and another part of soy meal.Per soybean crushed, you get something like an 80/20 meal to oil share.While the soy oil part is currently in high demand due to a higher bioethanol requirement (Brazil increased the share from 14% to15% as of 2025), there isn’t an additional demand driver for soy meal.

<ul><li>*YTD our absolute return strategy is up 12,0% Diamonds Are Cheap Diamond prices have fallen to their lowest level this century!</li><li>Diamond prices are currently low due to a combination of factors including decreased demand, increased supply of lab-grown diamonds, and fewer marriages.</li><li>Lab-grown diamonds used to take weeks to make but can now be grown in a few hours, compared with billions of years for natural stones.</li></ul>

*YTD our absolute return strategy is up 12,0% Diamonds Are Cheap Diamond prices have fallen to their lowest level this century!Diamond prices are currently low due to a combination of factors including decreased demand, increased supply of lab-grown diamonds, and fewer marriages.Lab-grown diamonds used to take weeks to make but can now be grown in a few hours, compared with billions of years for natural stones.

Diamonds Are Cheap & Seasonality Headwinds for Soybeans

<ul><li>CTA Update Last week, the research division of UBS shared an update on the positioning of CTAs.</li><li>Contrarian' trades: bullish Energy, Cattle Feeder, Lme Lead and Lme Nickel, bearish Coffee, Cocoa, Platinum and Palladium</li><li>Go with momentum' trades: bullish Lme Tin, Copper, Gold and Lean Hogs, bearish Soybean, Soybean Meal, Wheat and Corn Hurricane Milton and Orange Juice Prices Orange juice futures rose as Hurricane Milton approached Florida throughout the week.</li></ul>

CTA Update Last week, the research division of UBS shared an update on the positioning of CTAs.Contrarian' trades: bullish Energy, Cattle Feeder, Lme Lead and Lme Nickel, bearish Coffee, Cocoa, Platinum and PalladiumGo with momentum' trades: bullish Lme Tin, Copper, Gold and Lean Hogs, bearish Soybean, Soybean Meal, Wheat and Corn Hurricane Milton and Orange Juice Prices Orange juice futures rose as Hurricane Milton approached Florida throughout the week.

Hurricane Milton and Orange Juice Prices // CTA Update

<ul><li>In his presentation Thursday morning at the Agricultural Outlook Forum USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer said input prices are not falling with commodity prices, squeezing margins.</li><li>"When commodity prices normalize and readjust, those input prices tend to be sticky, which shrinks producer margins," Meyer says. "...It was maybe easier to make a little bit of money in '22, '23.</li><li>It's going to be a little bit tougher in the next crop year."</li></ul>

In his presentation Thursday morning at the Agricultural Outlook Forum USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer said input prices are not falling with commodity prices, squeezing margins."When commodity prices normalize and readjust, those input prices tend to be sticky, which shrinks producer margins," Meyer says. "...It was maybe easier to make a little bit of money in '22, '23.It's going to be a little bit tougher in the next crop year."

Which Commodity Trades "Big Money" currently favors // USDA Outlook 24-25 Highlights

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Soybean-Meal Oversupply Crisis Incoming?

Soybean-Meal Oversupply Crisis Incoming? When you crush soybeans, you get one part of soy oil and another part of soy meal. Per soybean crushed,...

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Diamonds Are Cheap & Seasonality Headwinds for Soybeans

YTD our absolute return strategy is up 12,0% Diamonds Are Cheap Diamond prices have fallen to their lowest level this century!

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Hurricane Milton and Orange Juice Prices // CTA Update

Contrarian' trades: bullish Energy, Cattle Feeder, Lme Lead and Lme Nickel, bearish Coffee, Cocoa, Platinum and Palladium

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Which Commodity Trades "Big Money" currently favors // USDA Outlook 24-25 Highlights

In his presentation Thursday morning at the Agricultural Outlook Forum USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer said input prices are not falling with...

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