Category: Commodity Chemicals
How New Tariffs Could Impact Your Margins
Significant changes are taking place in the international trading system. Recent announcements from the U.S. government around new and expanded tariffs targeting dozens …
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What’s ahead for DecisionNext and our customers in 2025
As we start the new year, we want to take a moment to reflect on a few of the important trends that shaped our industry over the last twelve months, and how they position …
Read ArticleMiddle East Turmoil Wreaks Havoc to Fertiliser Exporters & Receivers
Given the Middle East is a major player in supplying fertiliser to the world, political and trade uncertainties have raised the risk profile of marketing and delivering …
Read ArticleHow risk aware are your commodity market decisions?
Human Plus Machine The DecisionNext approach blends the best insights from your market experts (humans) with data models. The trick is to bring them together in a way …
Read ArticleRise of the Unicorns - Rethinking Corporate Innovation
The first Internet wave (1995 – 2005) For more than 250 years economic growth and improvements in our standard of living has been driven by the cycle of trade, …
Read ArticleSuper Bowl rings, Olympic gold medals, and big data
But there’s a less glamorous reason as well: data analytics. Let’s look at two recent sports success stories: the Philadelphia Eagles & the Netherlands’ Olympic speed …
Read ArticleWhy Cinderella is hard to pick in March madness & commodity markets
And a million more inspiring stories about players, and coaches, and teams that find greatness during the tournament. It’s called March Madness because anything can …
Read ArticleWhether You Call It Trading or Not, Your Company is Taking Market Positions
Introduction: Market Risk at Commodities-Driven Companies When an investor buys a stock, she is taking a position, placing a bet on the stock’s value going up so that she …
Read ArticleHumans or Machines: Which makes better decisions?
Experts agree the amount of damage done was relatively minor, but the episodes reopened the issue of whether we have grown too dependent on technology, specifically, …
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