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 partnered with Leap Market Analytics to deliver weekly expert reports covering Beef and Poultry markets. Starting with US market coverage, these specialized reports expand our protein category insights with the first report now live on the platform.

What's New:

• Weekly reports for both Beef & Broiler markets with pricing trends, supply & demand dynamics, and market insights

• Expert commentary from Leap Market Analytics' protein specialists

• Seamlessly integrated into the Vesper Market Analysis section

How to Access: Find the new reports under Market Analysis → Meat and Poultry, with fresh insights published weekly.

What's New

• 300 new daily price series covering major beef, pork, and lamb products

• Real-time daily updates to ensure you have the latest market data

• Coverage across different cuts, grades, and products

How to use in Vesper:
Prices Widget

• Easily track and monitor daily price movements for all meat categories

• Quick access to historical trends and current market conditions

• Ideal widget for efficient price monitoring

Cost Models

• Incorporate new meat price data into custom recipe breakdowns

• Build cost models that reflect your product’s market pricing

• Create detailed analyses for food service, retail, and manufacturing applications

Price Comparison

• Compare meat prices against other commodity products

• Identify correlations and patterns between different protein markets

Getting Started

The new meat price series are immediately to users with Meats&Poultry in their commodity package. To begin using this data:

1. Use the Prices Widget to explore individual price series

2. Use the Price Comparison to analyze relationships between meat and other commodities

3. Access Cost Models to incorporate the new data into your custom analyses

Questions or Support

For questions about the new meat price series or assistance with implementation, please contact our support team at: [email protected]

Launched comprehensive news coverage for meat and poultry markets, powered by custom machine learning models that filter and analyze global news sources to deliver relevant, real-time market intelligence.

Why it Matters: Staying ahead in volatile meat and poultry markets requires more than price data. Our data science team has developed specialized models that scan thousands of global news sources, filtering out noise to deliver only relevant market intelligence—giving you the full context needed.

What's New:

• Live news feed powered by custom ML models that:

  • Track thousands of global news sources

  • Filter for market-moving events

  • Identify relevant industry trends

  • Deliver real-time updates

• Coverage across all major meat and poultry categories

How to Use It:

1. Access the Meat & Poultry tab in your news section

2. Set up notifications for news keywords to keep updated on relevant headlines

Added daily Brazilian public prices from Instituto de Economia Agrícola (IEA), Brazil's leading agricultural economics institute, expanding our coverage of key food commodities with local market data.

Why it Matters: Brazil is a major global producer and price setter for multiple food commodities. Direct access to daily IEA data provides unprecedented visibility into local market dynamics, helping procurement teams better understand price movements at origin and optimize sourcing strategies.

What's New:

• Daily price updates across multiple categories:

  • Meat & Poultry: Chicken cuts (breast fillet, thigh, leg quarters), Pork cuts (loin, steak), Beef cuts (ribeye, round eye, brisket)

  • Nuts & Seeds: Peanuts in shell

  • Vegetables: Garlic (violet, violet size 0.7)

• Key features:

  • Daily frequency updates

  • 4 years of historical data

  • Local market prices from São Paulo state

  • Original source data direct from IEA

How to Use It:

1. Access Brazilian benchmarks in the Prices widgets by searching for the product name or filtering by BR-IEA source