Dear Readers, There is confusion in the market whether there will come enough raisins available this year from Turkey and what impact such possible shortage might have on the world-prices. Although it is, of course, not a law of Medes
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Dear Readers, In the stock-market the old, wellknown saying is... be away in May but remember be back in September. In fact the same applies for the commodity-market because during the summermonths people go on holiday and are normally not
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Dear Readers, We have the feeling that the market arrives, price-wise, in a period of uncertainty. OK. We know meanwhile what we can and cannot expect from the Chilean market. Limited quantities (specially flames) no jumbos and high prices. We
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Dear Readers, Inspiring raisin-news, which could have its influence in the market and on prices either side, can no longer come from South Africa. As we reported earlier already, the total crop is in the warehouses and partly already on
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Dear Readers, The South African raisin-crop of 2013 is finally in the barn! At least the bigger part of it. In the first place we can state that, in average, the crop has been good, big and of good quality.
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Dear Readers, The situation in the raisin-world is getting more clear by the day. Getting close now to the peak of the intake-period in South Africa, it becomes apparent that the crop is importantly bigger than most insiders expected in
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Together with the first careful signs of improvement of the world-economy, the raisin-market lived up as well in the early days of the new year. In our December version we noticed already that the raisin-market felt healthy with good demand,
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