Agriculture

The market largely ingnored CSR’s interim result to focus on the equity issue prior to the proposed de-merger of the sugar business.

Basking in an unaccustomed limelight, sugar looks set to keep delivering some pretty sweet returns.

Brokers see a Nufarm takeover by Sinochem as a longwinded process.

In the view of Barclays Capital commodity markets generally are in a period of consolidation before the uptrend resumes.

DAP prices are improving but has the market overpriced Incitec?

With debt issues addressed and an improving outlook, brokers are rediscovering interest in Elders.

AWB has confessed exiting Brazil will cost more than expected, leaving the market largely neutral on the outlook for the stock.

The price of sugar may have soared to new multi-decade highs, it is still 70% below its peak from the mid-seventies.

Exchange-traded funds have been blamed for extreme volatility in energy and food prices.

Commonwealth Bank believes the Australian federal budget forecast of an 18.5% drop in business investment is way too panicked.