Wheat Costs Surge 40%, Oil at $97, DRC Mining Pact & Biofuel Rush

Podcast: The Commodities Trade Institute Podcast · The Commodities Institute

Opublikowano: 2026-09-23

Global wheat freight faces acute bottlenecks as Black Sea disruptions lift Chicago futures forty percent, while crude oil drops toward ninety-seven dollars per barrel following the partial restart of Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline. Amid heated United States debates over a domestic diesel export ban, energy security mandates threaten a seventy percent surge in global biofuels by twenty thirty, competing for thirty-six million hectares of farmland. Meanwhile, Indonesia's mining curbs fail to rescue sixteen-thousand-five-hundred-dollar nickel from heavy warehouse inventories, and the Democratic Republic of Congo centralizes mining approvals under a landmark critical minerals agreement. https...