Years in the making, Brazil's dominant position in the soybean trade has been achieved by a powerful agroindustry, driven by unsatiable demand from China but the environmental cost may be unbearable in the medium term
4 commodity traders - ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus - and a new potential entrant - Glencore amidst wide swings in the grain and soybean markets
The banks of the KBW index are large cap financial institutions and money centers and the PowerShares KBW Bank ETF, tracking the index, has been very successful in 2017
