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Watch: Peak globalisation and climate change's impact

We search for their effects on 3 wholesale markets
September 6, 2019

When incoming head of the ECB Christine Lagarde claims that ''climate change should be at the core of any institution's mission'', you know it's front and centre of people's thinking. But is it a question of 'do as I say' rather than 'do as I do'? In light of the fires in the Amazon, we look at the price of CME live cattle futures. Then a quick peek at polyethylene, and finally the Baltic Exchange's dry freight rate index.