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Global urea prices have surged as escalating violence in the Middle East threatens supplies from a major producing and exporting region. Some Mideast producers have halted output, and the region accounts for nearly half of world urea exports.
Lost output from a region supplying about half of seaborne urea tightens global supply and lifts prices for fertilizer buyers and corn growers' input costs.
After 205 past bullish geopolitics events, Urea moved a median +0.4% over 5 sessions (53% higher; middle half -2.1% to +3.0%), and -0.4% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.