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DAP Tampa Fertilizer Index has nearly doubled since the start of the year.
Patton said the recent cold weather bogged down truck, rail, and barge transportation networks across the Midwest. This led to challenges for transportation networks to haul fertilizer from ports to Midwest areas. She said supplies were already low or depleted ahead of the winter season.
Demand for fertilizer began to ramp higher in late 2020 as farmers became optimistic about the 2021 growing season with futures prices of agri commodities rising. Many farmers capitalized on lower fertilizer prices back then and prepaid for a majority of their fertilizer needs for this growing season, Patton said. Additionally, with warm, dry weather during harvest, some farms capitalized on early harvest and good field conditions to apply nutrients.
Bloomberg today announced that the Bloomberg Short-Term Bank Yield Index (BSBY) is now available for use as a reference in financial benchmarks in the U.S. loan market. BSBY includes both a term structure and systemic credit-sensitive spread, which may be used to support the market's transition from LIBOR to risk-free rates, such as SOFR. Bloomberg began publishing BSBY on an indicative basis for the purposes of illustration, analysis and collection of market feedback on October 15, 2020.
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International investors have rediscovered an appetite for Canadian stocks, fuelling the sharpest spike in net foreign inflows into Canada in more than five years.
With signs of a postpandemic economic boom building by the day, a big shift toward economically sensitive sectors, such as natural resources and financials, is taking place across stock markets around the world.