Cedears: due to the Ukraine-Russia conflict the biggest increases were in energy

Cedears: due to the Ukraine-Russia conflict the biggest increases were in energy

For its part, Adecoagrorose 7.8% after soybean futures hit a 9-1/2-year high as the war between Ukraine and Russia endangered the supply of sunflower oil from the Black Sea, which could increase the demand for other vegetable oils, including soybean oil.

In this context, “you can invest in companies like Adecoagro, an Argentine company that produces food and renewable energy, which has 200,000 hectares with soybean, wheat, cotton and sunflower plantations in the humid pampas,” he had advanced. Maximiliano Donzelli, head of Research at IOL investonline, in dialogue with Ámbito.

In the last hours it was also known that a company belonging to the Russian giant Gazprom declared bankruptcy after it could not take payments. Nord Stream 2 AG was commissioned to build and put into operation the gas pipeline that bears its name.

As for the rise in mining the cause is the increase in the value of gold, active a safe haven, which on Monday grew up to 2.2% and approached the maximum of 17 months reached last week. The energy and mining sector also rose in the world’s major markets on fears of supply constraints.

In fact, the Cedear ETF that grew the most this day was the one that replicates the energy index (+7.5%). The rise of the MSCI Brazil (+4.8%) was also highlighted. The biggest drop, meanwhile, was in the financial sector (-1.5%).

On Wall Street, the main indices closed with a positive sign, the Dow Jones Industrials, gained 1.8%. Meanwhile, the selective index S&P 500 closed with a rise of 1.8%, and the technological Nasdaq registered a rise of 1.6%.

Source: Ambito

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