Wednesday, 06 December 2017 09:48

GDT price falls halted

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The GDT auction has broken its run of consecutive price drops. The GDT auction has broken its run of consecutive price drops.

The Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction has broken its run of consecutive price drops.

After four consecutive drops at previous auctions the GDT price index rose 0.4% in the overnight auction.

The flagship whole milk powder prices rose 1.7% over the previous auction to US$2830/metric tonne.

Butter prices saw an 11% drop to US$4575/mt.

Key Results

AMF index down 0.6%, average price US$6,836/MT

Butter index down 11.1%, average price US$4,575/MT

BMP index up 4.3%, average price US$1,957/MT

Ched index down 3.9%, average price US$3,696/MT

LAC index not available, average price not available

RenCas index up 3.4%, average price US$4,879/MT

SMP index up 4.7%, average price US$1,774/MT

WMP index up 1.7%, average price US$2,830/MT

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