American Drought Already Hitting Chinese Consumers Hard

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Hira Shahnawaz Akhtar
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What is now being labeled as the worst drought in the United States in 25 years has led to serious concerns about the world food supplies and inflation. The high temperatures specifically in the corn producing regions continued over the month of June and early July and have meant further downgrade of export estimates from the US for this crop year. The USDA’s July World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report predicts corn yield for the year 2012-13 to be down 20 bushels to 146 bushels per acre due to the extreme heat conditions in the central and eastern Corn Belt. Of the projected…

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Hira is a financial analyst whose expertise lies in commodity and other financial markets. Hira is currently an independent financial consultant and is working with many international firms like American Arab Solutions (AAS). She has previously served as a Senior Research Analyst at Alternate Research (Pvt.) Ltd. as the Team Leader for the International Equities Research. She has also worked as an equities analyst of Pakistani E&P stocks at Invest Capital Markets. She has experience in business development and conducting feasibility studies in commodity markets, specifically in sugar, palm oil and canola oilseeds. She has cleared all three levels of her CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and has an undergraduate degree in Finance.