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Cleveland On Cotton: 80 Cents Possible?
Cotton prices caught a break this week from what many called a neutral world supply demand report. The declining volume of world cotton stocks was the highlight of USDA’s October […]
Cleveland On Cotton: So Much For Tariffs Or Making Farmers “Whole”
A crisis has taken shape in the Cotton Belt and in the broader Heartland, and agriculture is leading the charge to disaster. Every morning begins with the chimes of two […]
Cleveland On Cotton: China Buying Elsewhere But Still Reasons For Optimism
Where is Billy Dunavant when we really need him? Cotton prices have taken nearly a ten-cent nose dive – a 1,000 points – in the past three months. In the […]
Cleveland On Cotton: Waiting For The Reality Of Demand
Tariff nervousness plagued the cotton market all week as December futures momentarily broke below longtime support at 79 cents. However, going into the weekly close, the market was trying to […]
Cleveland On Cotton: Market Still Thrashing Around In 4-Cent Range
The very narrow four-cent trading range, 81-84 cents, basis December futures, remains in place, but it is teetering as if to be Humpty Dumpty. The downside bias also remains in […]
Cleveland On Cotton: Whipsaw Price Swings Linger
Whipsaw price swings continue haunting the cotton market. Such price swings, characterized by triple-digit day-to-day trading, will continue until the U.S. and world crop sizes are better defined. Despite concerns […]
Cleveland On Cotton: Demand Exists In A Huge Way, Despite Mills’ Rhetoric
Cotton added another murky week to its trading linage, easily moving 100 points higher and then 100 points lower. It cannot generate any clear direction, so the whipsaw price action […]
Cleveland On Cotton: Cooperatives, Merchants Cutting Deals To Break Even
It’s not pretty. The cotton market has degenerated to whipsaw activity, triple digits up and then triple digits down – but with an ever so slight downward bias as it […]
Cleveland on Cotton: The Thrill is Gone. What’s Next?
The Thrill is Gone, so sang BB King. From an exciting 6 months with promises of greatness, the cotton market is now hanging on with all the force it can […]
Cleveland On Cotton: Bearish Reports – But It Could Have Been Worse
Hold on. Wait a minute. The expected bullish supply demand report had bear tracks all over it. New crop was bigger than expected, old crop exports failed to materialize and […]
