El Nino trades tend to get discussed as futures positions - long Cocoa, long Sugar, short whatever the weather is punishing this month.
That is the obvious layer. The less obvious one sits in equities of companies whose operating margins are already so thin that a commodity price move which barely registers for a diversified producer can flip a loss-making segment into a meaningfully profitable one.
Sudzucker is a live example of exactly that setup, playing out right now.
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