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One might also point to American consumers, who haven’t moderated their beef buying enough to subject the commodity to the rigors of supply-and-demand economics.

Fed governor Waller has spoken out in favor of a rate cut next month, the commodity analyst says in a research report.

An African negotiator from a cocoa-exporting country said the EU's paused deforestation regulations -- requiring proof commodities don't come from recently cleared land -- were another major worry.

The point made by Finkelstein and Schaus is that valuation is not predictive for short-term performance, but nonetheless it does make a good argument for diversification into bonds, commodities and cheaper international equity markets.

A couple of points about this: First, the company acknowledges that the driver of the index decline was the price of eggs; those for the other commodities were stable.