Soft & Specialty
These are the markets that don't make the front page until a policy decision moves them fifty percent in a week. Uranium responds to nuclear restarts in Japan and France. EU carbon allowances respond to Brussels. Each is small enough that a single regulatory shift can reshape the entire pricing curve.
Markets we cover
- Uranium
- Carbon (EU ETS)
- Cotton
- Rubber
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