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An University of Sydney analysis says the WMO has declared the first El Niño in seven years, with 90% odds of developing in 2023 at moderate strength. It notes that past El Niño events have produced relatively modest and ambiguous global food price impacts, while local effects could be severe.
Past El Niño events have rarely caused breadbasket-wide yield shocks, so wheat prices are unlikely to move much on this event alone. Concentrated regional crop losses remain a risk that could support prices in affected exporters.
sydney.edu.auJul 18, 2023After 224 past neutral weather events, Wheat (SRW) moved a median -0.1% over 5 sessions (46% higher; middle half -1.4% to +1.5%), 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.
