Egg Prices And Egg Contracts For Difference

Egg prices and price index through December, egg CFDs through January.

 

Figure 1: Top panel, Contract for Difference for eggs; middle panel, PPI for large eggs; bottom panel, price of dozen A eggs, in $. Source: TradingEconomics, BLS.

I have no idea what’s the predictive power of the Contract for Difference for eggs; maybe somebody can illuminate it for me. What’s clear to me is the PPI is up in December, and retail egg prices are likely to follow.

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