Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Quick Overview

  • The Conference Board's consumer confidence index increased from 98.3 to 103.6 in December, its highest level since Hurricane Katrina.

  • The USDA said there were 61.197 million head of hogs and pigs in U.S. inventory on December 1st, up 0.4% YoY.

  • The USDA said that YoY U.S. beef production was up 7% in November.

  • The USDA said that YoY pork production was up 2% in November.

  • The Dow-Jones Newswires credits a fungus in Brazil and too much rain in Vietnam as two recent supporting reasons for Coffee.

  • Consumer confidence in Germany increased from 3.4 to 3.8 in December, the highest in six months.

  • YoY Japan's industrial production was up 1.4% in November.

No comments: