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A feature recounts how investors who shorted chicken stocks in 2016 suspected the Georgia Dock chicken price index was inflated by processors. The index had run 30 to 50 percent above other regions in 2015.
The story concerns the reliability of a price benchmark and past price-fixing allegations rather than new supply or demand, so its direct price impact is limited.
npr.orgDan CharlesMay 17, 2018Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
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.
