Wednesday, 03 August 2016 14:39

Good news at last - GDT up 6.6%

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Good news at last. Good news at last.

The Global Dairy Trade price index was up 6.6% overnight, with the all-important whole milk powder up 9.9%.

Key Results:

AMF index up 4.7%, average price US$3,797/MT

Butter index up 6.6%, average price US$2,871/MT

BMP index up 7.7%, average price US$1,661/MT

Ched index down 0.8%, average price US$2,889/MT

LAC index up 3.7%, average price US$741/MT

RenCas index up 16.3%, average price US$6,161/MT

SMP index up 2.1%, average price US$1,965/MT

WMP index up 9.9%, average price US$2,265/MT

ASB rural economist Nathan Penny says the overall result was stronger than their expectations heading in; they expected WMP prices to lift by between 5% and 7%.

The bounce was also broad-based. On top of the WMP increase, casein prices surged 16%, while butter and BMP rose 7% and 8%, respectively. Only cheddar prices recorded a fall.

"From here, we expect rapidly tightening global supply to lift prices further over 2016," he says.

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