Vesper  Updates

New: Deselect All Button

by Vesper Team, Product Marketing
Improvement
New
Vesper Toolbox

Clear your widget selections instantly with the new "Deselect all" button in dropdown menus. Start fresh analysis without manually removing each selection or dealing with cluttered views.

What it does: One click clears all active selections in a widget What you can do: Reset widgets to empty state for clean analysis Why it matters: Faster workflow, cleaner screens, less clicking

Find it in the dropdown menus across most widgets.

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Technical Analysis: Interpretable and actionable for all food commodity products

by Vesper Team
New
Vesper Toolbox
Forecasting & Outlook

Summary: Vesper has launched Technical Analysis, a new forward-looking capability that translates complex market behavior into clear, actionable timing signals. Previously reserved for trading experts using specialized tools, technical analysis is now accessible to every procurement professional through simple, visual indicators. This feature helps teams identify optimal buying windows by analyzing price patterns and momentum, delivering straightforward signals that answer the critical question: "When should I act?"—no financial expertise required.

What's New:

  • Three procurement-focused indicators that signal market timing without financial jargon

  • Moving Averages show if prices are trending above or below "normal" levels

  • MACD detects when price movements are accelerating or losing steam

  • RSI identifies when markets are overheated or oversold, highlighting potential reversals

  • Clean visual signals (green/red arrows + Interpreted text) that make complex analysis instantly understandable

Why It Matters: Fundamental data tells you why prices should move, but not when the market will react. Technical Analysis bridges this gap by revealing when markets start believing the fundamental story. In volatile markets where timing can mean the difference between saving and losing on purchases in volatile markets. These indicators help procurement teams spot early trend changes, identify optimal entry points, and avoid buying at market extremes, without requiring trading expertise.

How to Use It:

  1. Add Technical Analysis to any dashboard by using the search function

  2. View the summary panel showing all three indicators at a glance

  3. Green arrows indicate upward pressure/momentum, red indicates downward

  4. Click the extended view for in depth analysis of the indicators

  5. Combine with Vesper's other forward-looking tools for complete forward looking intelligence

Related Features: Technical Analysis completes Vesper's forward-looking toolkit:

  • AI Forecasting predicts where prices are headed (the "how much")

  • Dashboard fundamentals explain market drivers (the "why")

  • Market reports provide expert context

  • Now Technical Analysis reveals entry point (the "when")

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Fruits, Vegetables & Pulses News

by Vesper Team
New
Vegetables & Pulses
Fruit
News & Alerts

Summary: Vesper has expanded its news coverage with two dedicated categories: Vegetables & Pulses and Fruits. These new sections deliver focused, timely information on fresh produce markets, including harvest conditions, logistics updates, weather disruptions, pricing trends, and market developments.

What's New:

  • Dedicated news category for Vegetables & Pulses

  • Dedicated news category for Fruits

  • Comprehensive coverage of global fresh produce markets

  • Integration with existing news filtering and alert capabilities

Why It Matters: Fresh produce represents critical input markets for many of our core users. These new categories significantly deepen our current coverage, which has primarily focused on price benchmarks until now. By adding dedicated news streams, users gain deeper insights and earlier warning signals about market developments before they impact prices. This expanded coverage provides essential visibility into volatile produce markets, helping users anticipate supply disruptions, track pricing pressures, and identify emerging trends. This expansion responds directly to user feedback requesting more comprehensive coverage across the complete ingredient spectrum.


How to Use It:

  1. Find the new categories in the News section of the platform

  2. Set up custom alerts for specific commodities within these categories

  3. Filter news by these categories to focus on produce-specific updates

Related Features: These news categories complement Vesper's existing offerings:

  • Smart news filtering and aggregation

  • Custom news alerts

  • Fruits and Vegetables price benchmarks on the Dashboard

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Custom Units Per Widget

by Vesper Team
New
Vesper Toolbox

Summary: Vesper has enhanced dashboard customization with the ability to set unique currency and unit preferences for each individual widget. This highly requested feature allows users to display multiple markets with different measurement standards side by side in their most relevant formats.

What's New:

  • Individual currency and unit settings for each widget

  • Widget-specific customization that persists independently of general settings

Why It Matters: Markets operate with different standards across regions and commodities. This enhancement eliminates the need to constantly toggle between general unit settings when analyzing diverse markets simultaneously. Users can now create truly customized multi-market dashboards that present each data series in its most relevant format.

How to Use It:

  1. Click the currency switcher in the top right of any widget

  2. Select your preferred currency and units for that specific widget

  3. Use the three dot widget menu to duplicate widgets as needed to select price sources in different currencies in the same dashboard

  4. Note that the general unit selector still functions but won't override your customized widgets

Related Features: This update complements other dashboard customization capabilities:

  • Custom dashboard creation

  • Analytical toolbox for cross-commodity comparison

  • One-click correlations checks

  • Exportable charts for reporting

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UK Egg Production Data Now Live

by Vesper Team
New
Data
Bakery
Food Ingredients
Sauces & Condiments

Summary: Vesper has expanded our egg market coverage by integrating official quarterly UK egg production data. This enhancement provides critical supply information to complement our existing egg price benchmarks, delivering deeper market insights for procurement teams in a category known for significant volatility.

What's New:

  • Quarterly UK egg production data from official government sources covering:

    • Eggs, Fresh

    • Egg Enriched Derivatives, Caged

    • Eggs, Free Range

  • Reporting:

    • Production volumes across different egg types

    • Quarter-over-quarter production trends

    • Year-over-year production comparisons

Why It Matters: Egg markets have been extremely volatile, mainly due to supply side constraints caused by HPAI recently. With production levels directly impacting price movements. This new production data helps procurement teams anticipate market shifts by tracking supply dynamics, providing essential context for buying decisions and supplier negotiations in a challenging category.

How to Use It:

  1. Navigate to the production widget in your dashboard

  2. Select the relevant product in the dropdown

  3. View production trends quarterly or evolutions compared to the prior years

Related Features: This update complements our comprehensive egg market coverage:

  • Vesper Price Index (VPI) for 16 egg products across different production systems

  • Expert market analysis for the egg sector

  • Global news feed specific to eggs and poultry

  • Price benchmarks across caged, barn, and free-range production systems

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Introducting Brazilian Instituto de Economia Agrícola (IEA) Source

by Vesper Team
New
Data
Nuts, Seeds & Dried Fruits
Meat & Poultry
Vegetables & Pulses

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

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New VPI Egg Price Benchmarks

by Vesper Team
News & Alerts
Data
Market Analysis
Vesper Price Index (VPI)
Bakery

Summary: Introducing exclusive Vesper Price Indices (VPIs) for eggs and egg derivatives, covering 16 products across different production systems. These weekly benchmarks are built from actual transaction data from key market participants, supported by expert analysis and AI-powered news coverage.

What's New:

  • Weekly VPI benchmarks for:

    • Powder Products: Egg White, Egg Yolk, and Whole Egg powders

    • Liquid Products: Egg White, Egg Yolk, and Whole Egg

    • Shell Eggs

  • Coverage across three production systems:

    • Caged

    • Barn

    • Free Range

  • Enhanced market coverage:

    • Expert market analysis reports

    • AI-curated global news feed specific to eggs and poultry

    • Weekly price updates based on actual transactions

Why It Matters: The egg derivatives market has historically lacked reliable price benchmarks despite significant price volatility. Our new VPIs fill this gap by providing weekly price references based on actual market transactions, helping you validate quotes and track price trends across different production systems.

How to Use It:

  1. Access the price widgets

  2. Select your product of interest from 16 new benchmarks

  3. View price trends, expert analysis, and relevant news in one spot

  4. Use the data to support procurement decisions and supplier negotiations

Related Features: This release is part of our expanded coverage for bakery ingredients, complementing recent additions in:

  • Flour cost modeling

  • Enhanced wheat and grains price benchmarks

  • Fundamental coverage (production, trade routes) for grains, dairy, nuts, and more

These tools provide bakery procurement teams with comprehensive insights across their key ingredients.

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New Wheat Flour Cost Calculator

by Vesper Team
New
Grains & Feed
Data
Bakery

Summary: New wheat flour price calculator now available, combining MATIF milling wheat prices with production costs to estimate realistic flour market values.

What's New:

  • Wheat flour price calculation based on MATIF futures

  • Customizable input parameters including:

    • Wheat purchase price (FOB French Ports)

    • Original protein content

    • Target protein content

    • Vital wheat gluten price

  • Integration of key production cost factors:

    • Electricity consumption

    • Water usage

    • Milling efficiency rates

    • Labor costs

  • Medium-sized miller operational model

  • Located in Calculations Page under Grains & Feed

Why It Matters: Raw wheat prices tell only part of the story. This calculator helps you understand the full cost structure of flour production, enabling more informed negotiations and better prediction of price movements. Best of all, you can adjust the parameters to match your specific situation and market conditions.

How to Use It:

  1. How to Use It:

    1. Navigate to the Calculations Page

    2. Select Grains & Feed category

    3. Choose "Wheat Flour Price - MATIF" calculator

    4. Adjust the input parameters to match your needs

    5. View the calculated theoretical EXW flour price

Part of our expanded grains coverage in Q4 2024, which includes:

  • New import/export flow data for grains and flour

  • Enhanced production data coverage

  • Additional benchmark pricing for grains and flour products

Together, these tools give you a complete view of the market from trade flows to final product costs.

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New Brazilian Nuts Production Data

by Vesper Team
New
Nuts, Seeds & Dried Fruits
Bakery
Data
Chocolate, Confectionery & Ice Cream

NewNuts & SeedsProduction Data

Summary: Monthly production data from IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) for cashews and peanuts, providing official Brazilian production volumes and trends.

What's New:

  • Monthly cashew production data (in shell)

  • Monthly peanut production volumes (combined 1st and 2nd harvests)

  • Data presented in metric tons

  • Direct integration with IBGE statistics

  • Monthly update frequency

Why It Matters: Brazil's position as a major nuts producer means their production volumes directly impact global supply and prices. This data helps you anticipate market movements and optimize procurement timing based on production cycles.

How to Use It:

  1. Access the Production widgets in your dashboard

  2. Use the search function to find "cashew" or "peanut" data

  3. Select Brazilian production data from the results

Related Features: This release complements our recent expansion of nuts and seeds price data, where we've added more historical data points across all pricing widgets to give you a deeper view of long-term market trends.

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