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This is a great commodity-history thread: How East Germany created the Vietnamese coffee industry, which today is the world’s 2nd largest coffee producer after Brazil, in an effort to keep domestic coffee prices low in the former communist bloc nation | #coffee

How East Germany created the world's 2nd largest coffee production in the remote jungles of SE Asia to keep its citizens happy and caffeinated

Q2 @VosborExchange goal: bringing back the hand signals (@Zoom API?) @CMEGroup, @euronext are these trademarked?

What is Vosbor…? Worth checking out if you’re interested in digitalisation!

More accessible data> more liquidity, as capital finds new arbitrages> more pull toward digital markets, in a desire for execution speed. Early movers get rich, but the higher the liquidity, the better these markets function and the better it is for everyone in the long run.

160 years ago today futures were invented at the Chicago Board of Trade (part of @CMEGroup)🧵

Do you want to earn $3.81bn with agricultural commodities like Cargill? Just need to move $177bn worth of agricultural commodities/yr. 2.15% net profit margin for moving grains in the middle of a war and logistic bottlenecks with extreme price volatility.

Serious questions for the Grain Trading Industry 🌾 How many pages of Grain Market Commentary are published every day? 📃 I know it's a lot, my guess is 200-600 pages, per day, are published between brokers, farm marketers, and consultants 📚 But does any of this help you market or trade your grain or is it just "nice to have" as a reference? Let me hear your thoughts and I will tell you mine after the close today ⌛

Great to see 2 of our @Market1Capital portfolio companies on the list of 9 marketplace startups to watch - @VosborExchange and ovokogroup.com 🚀 Thanks for coverage @Siftedeu @sadianowshin_ and for pointing them out @NJStocks and @NamatBahram

Our investor @Lux_Capital reveals Lux Ventures 8 - their single and largest fund to date🔥 Congratulations @peterjhebert @wolfejosh  luxcapital.com/lux8

Why is anyone still trading metals here?!? Again a major scandal, after last year's nickel short squeeze already laid bare some significant shortcomings at LME bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Agriculture Commodity Newsletter: A conversation with Maarten Elferink commodityc.substack.com/p/a-conversati…

A contrarian take on the most controversial event in commodity markets this year vosbor.com/blog/a-watersh…

Vosbor included in list of most promising b2b marketplaces of 2022, as selected by investors businessinsider.com/most-promising… @BusinessInsider small correction—it is a $12.2 TRILLION market, not $12.2 billion (and this still leaves out over-the-counter derivative trade..)

The Chicago Board of Trade (part of @CMEGroup) established the modern futures trade in 1865🇺🇲🌽🇺🇲 Here is the story of the forgotten founder of futures trading👇

@MaximoTorero We are working on it!

Global food crisis is not over. Rising food costs continue to hurt the most vulnerable populations. They need help. Countries and int'l organizations must also invest in building agrifood systems that can withstand the effects of unstable markets and extreme weather conditions.

Incredible thread Also watch Lux family co @VosborExchange —we still can’t believe this didn’t exist before!

Great 🧵 by @MaartenElferink from our portfolio company @VosborExchange on how they bring perpetual swaps innovation into agricultural commodities trading

1) I wanted to understand more about what the looming food crisis means for trading houses and end consumers, so I brought two former CEOs of the largest trading houses onto the “Securities” podcast to talk more. Here are some highlights: