Commodities Update - 18 Apr 15

BDI still remained low at 597 (17 Apr)

Summary
More commodities are trading higher this week due to USD weakening.  Energy and Coffee Sugar are the better performer this week, up between 1-8%.

COT
Instruments that show buying interest by Producer/Merchant/Processor/User
Down Trend

• Cocoa
• Sugar Raw
• Coffee Arabica (1)
• Soybean Meal (1)
• Orange Juice (1)
• Rough Rice (1)
• Lumber (1)

Neutral

• Corn
• Wheat (1) (UT to Neutral)
• Natural Gas (1) (DT to Neutral)

Up Trend

• Copper

Instruments that show selling interest at extreme (2) only by Producer/Merchant/Processor/User
Up Trend

• Crude  

Note
(1) COT Index >= 90
(2) COT Index <= 10
(3) No COT data available
Down Trend and Up Trend is based on 50 Simple Moving Average