Saturday, August 27, 2011

Cotton defaults and pricing issues

There has been an increase in cotton defaults of long-term contracts. This will have an important impact on the cotton market because there is a growing movement to spot contracting from longer-term contracts. This is similar to what has been seen in the iron ore market. This structural change will make the futures market more important. Futures markets have been limited when there is strong forward contract markets.

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