Research · Notes from the desk
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Fertilizer to foodA causal chain from natural gas to consumer food prices. Lead-lag over 25 years of monthly data, peaking at correlation 0.30 with a five-month lag.
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Weather as a price driverEuropean day-ahead power as a meteorology problem. Merit-order economics, residual mean reversion, and a near-miss look-ahead bug.
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News sensitivity by asset class33 instruments, 7 asset classes, 1,079 days, GDELT 2.0. Which markets respond, and on which timescale.
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Cocoa, coffee, sugarThree weather-driven softs in narrow geographies: a West Africa drought signal, a Brazil frost-and-heat signal, and a cross-cutting energy-shock response.