Vesper has launched Vesper for Excel, a powerful new integration that brings Vesper's live commodity intelligence directly into your spreadsheets. This feature eliminates manual data entry, allowing teams to spend less time maintaining spreadsheets and more time analyzing markets with real-time data feeding directly into the models and templates they already use.

What's New:

• One-Click Refresh: Update all Vesper data in your spreadsheets instantly. With a single click, you can access real-time prices, forecasts, FX rates, and fundamentals.

• Direct Data Access: Pull data from over 160 global sources directly into any cell in your spreadsheet.

• Native Integration: Vesper for Excel lives natively within your Excel, integrating seamlessly with your existing workflow and templates.

• No Coding Required: Perfect for procurement, finance, and sales teams who need live data in spreadsheets without any technical overhead.

Why It Matters: The time spent on manual data collection and entry is time lost on strategic analysis. Vesper for Excel automates this process, ensuring the latest market information always powers your most critical models. It shifts your team's focus from data maintenance to data-driven decision-making.

How to Use It:

1. Download the add-in from the Microsoft Excel marketplace.

2. Log in with your Vesper API Excel key.

3. Set up once by using the Vesper for Excel sidebar to choose the data you need (e.g., commodity, price type, date range).

4. Click "Refresh" at any time to update all data points in your sheet instantly.
   

How to access? Reach out to your customer success manager or [email protected] to learn more about the Excel Add-in or the various options to extract or integrate Vesper data directly into your workflows

What data? Vesper for Excel offers seamless access to Vesper's data:

• Vesper Price Index (VPI)

• Partner and Public price benchmarks

• Forecasts for Price, Production, and Stock levels

• FX rates

• Global trade data

• S&D/Fundamental data

• Stock levels
  

Summary: Vesper has strengthened its dairy portfolio with a new weekly Vesper Price Index (VPI) benchmark for Cheddar Curd (CIF Southeast Asia). This proprietary benchmark fills a critical gap in regional cheese trade visibility, especially for Oceania-origin products moving into key Asian markets.

What's New:

• Exclusive weekly VPI price benchmark for Cheddar Curd with CIF Southeast Asia delivery basis

• First reliable price reference in a region lacking formal cheese futures markets

• Full integration with existing dairy dashboards and pricing tools

Why It Matters: With no futures market for cheese in the APAC, market participants have struggled to benchmark pricing or implement effective hedging strategies. This exclusive VPI benchmark provides essential price transparency in a market where Oceania exports a significant share of its cheddar production to Asian buyers. By introducing this reference point, we're responding to the need for reliable pricing data in markets lacking formal pricing infrastructure.

How to Use It:

1. Find the new Cheddar Curd (CIF SEA) benchmark in the pricing widgets

2. Add it to price widgets to analyze spread between origin and destination markets

3. Track weekly updates to identify emerging trends in regional dairy trade flows

Related Features: This benchmark complements Vesper's existing offerings:

• Global and regional cheese price benchmarks

• Import/export widgets mapping supply and demand in trade flows

• Price spread tool for cross-regional analysis

Whats New? Vesper is extending our AI-powered forecasting horizon from 6 to 12 months for select dairy, sugar, and oils commodities with established price histories (5+ years of data). This extended visibility enables procurement teams to move beyond tactical buying decisions to support annual budgeting and strategic planning.

Why it matters? Together with expert human analyst outlooks and comprehensive coverage of S&D/Fundamentals, the forecast powered by AI technology gives a comprehensive outlook on future market movements. The extended 12-month horizon allows users to incorporate forecasting into their decision making on more strategic timeframes.

As always, forecasting accuracy is transparently available on the platform for each individual product, allowing users to assess performance and incorporate it into decision-making.

How to Use It:

1. Access the forecast widgets directly on your custom dashboards (add through the search tool if needed)

2. If a product has a 12-Month forecast horizon, it will automatically be visible on your screen

3. Check forecast performance by choosing the 12-Month option in the accuracy dropdown

More products will be added to the extended range in the course of Q2

Related Features: This extended forecasting complements our existing forward-looking toolkit:

• Forward pricing up to 16 months ahead in the Forward Pricing widgets

• Expert analyst outlooks for both short and long-term market perspectives

• Fundamental market drivers dashboard for tracking supply and demand trends

These combined tools give procurement teams unprecedented visibility into future market movements for more confident strategic planning.

Summary: Enhance your dairy market analysis with exclusive pricing insights for MPC85 (US) and MPI90 (US) - now benchmarked in the Vesper Price Index (VPI), establishing the first reliable market benchmarks for these protein ingredients.

What's New:

• VPI benchmark prices for MPC85 (US)

• VPI benchmark prices for MPI90 (US)

• First reliable market benchmark for these products

Why It Matters: Until now, no reliable price benchmarks existed for these protein ingredients. These new VPIs provide clear market reference prices, essential for both buyers and sellers in the specialized nutrition sector.

How to Use It:

1. Use the Prices or Price Comparison widget

2. Add prices using the prices filter

3. Select MPC85 or MPI90 (US)

Don’t have access to these prices yet?Let us know

Summary: Access detailed regional price breakdowns for key US dairy products including butter, cream, dry whey, and NFDM across East, Central, and West regions from the Dairy Market News.

What's New: • Regional DMN price data for US dairy products • Coverage across East, Central, and West regions • Products include Butter, Cream, Dry Whey, NFDM • Same-day price updates integrated into existing dashboards

Why It Matters: Regional price differences can are seen within the US, having access to more local pricing will provide you with the benchmarks needed to validate claims, and build more tailored strategies.

How to Use It:

1. Navigate to your dairy pricing dashboard

2. Select your product of interest

3. View price comparisons across US regions using the Price Comparison Widget

Need help? Contact your customer success manager or email [email protected]

Summary: Added EEX Index prices, the closing mechanism for dairy futures, for butter, raw milk, SMP (Food), and SWP (Feed). These indices make it easier to track futures settlement prices in one place.

What's New:

• EEX Index prices for:

  • Butter

  • Raw Milk

  • SMP (Food)

  • SWP (Feed)

Why It Matters: EEX Index prices are used for futures settlement. These prices are derived from an average of prices already available on Vesper (ATLA, Kempten, ZuivelNL benchmarks). Integrating these EEX indexes complements our existing price sources, making it easier to track market developments.

How to Use It:

1. Open your prices or price comparison widget

2. Select the new EEX Index in your data series

3. Compare with other price benchmarks in price comarison to get a complete market view

Need help? Contact your customer success manager or email [email protected]

Summary: Access the latest price results for SMP and WMP from the GDT Pulse in our pricing widgets, enabling more frequent price discovery between GDT auctions.

What's New:

• GDT Pulse results for:

  • SMP pricing data

  • WMP pricing data

• Integration in pricing widgets

• More frequent price updates between auctions

Why It Matters: GDT Pulse provides additional price points between traditional auctions, helping you make better-informed trading decisions with more current market data.

How to Use It:

1. Open your pricing widgets

2. Select SMP or WMP products

3. Select GDT Pulse

4. Pro Tip: Select both GDT & GDT Pulse to overlay both in one graph

Need help? Contact your customer success manager or email [email protected]