Market Analysis
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Weak Cotton Demand Among Continuing Macroeconomic Concerns
Stagnant prices, lower consumption, and tougher export competition are a few of the challenges U.S. cotton faces heading into 2024.
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Price Swings and Weak Demand Continue to Feed the Cotton Bears
Dr. O.A. Cleveland wants you to remember this: Do not make marketing decisions based on hope and wishful thinking.
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Shurley: As Cotton Prices Stabilize, Demand Questions Remain
There continues to be much concern and uncertainty about demand and the often-weak pace of U.S. exports.
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Cotton Prices Rebound Back to Year-Old Range
The cotton market moved higher than expected by week’s end, reestablishing the year-old 74-88 cent trading range.
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Cotton Highlights from December WASDE Report
The key word in USDA’s December 2023 WASDE report for cotton is lower – lower production, mill use, ending stocks,…
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How the Grinch Stole Cotton’s Christmas
The cotton market offered its first gifts of the Christmas season to the Bears, while the Bulls sit staring at…
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A Better Week, as Lower Cotton Prices Lift Exports
Traders came back to the long side of the cotton market this week – not in a big way, but…
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New Bottom for the Cotton Market Is In…Maybe
Despite cotton prices crashing into the 70s, the market formed a technical “Waterfall Pattern,” indicating the bottom is in…maybe.
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Shurley: Cotton Prices Lose Support, Now What?
Cotton price has dropped 10 cents in the last two weeks and 15 cents over the last month, primarily due…
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Cotton Highlights from November WASDE Report
USDA’s November 2023 WASDE report for cotton shows higher production and stocks for the U.S. and global markets, offset by…