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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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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:
Add Technical Analysis to any dashboard by using the search function
View the summary panel showing all three indicators at a glance
Green arrows indicate upward pressure/momentum, red indicates downward
Click the extended view for in depth analysis of the indicators
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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Summary: Vesper has launched Cost Models, a powerful new feature that transforms individual commodity benchmarks into complete product cost insights. This capability allows food manufacturers to combine weighted commodity benchmarks with standardized non-ingredient costs to build accurate product pricing models, delivering unprecedented visibility into true product economics.
What's New:
Build complete product cost models by combining multiple commodity benchmarks with precise weightings
Access industry-standard non-ingredient costs (labor, manufacturing, overhead) specific to your region
Choose from our template library for common food products or create custom models
Track how each component contributes to your total product cost with automatic updates whenever source prices change
Why It Matters: With record-high volatility across food commodities, understanding how ingredient changes impact finished products is critical for maintaining margins. Cost Models provide complete cost structure visibility for your entire organization: procurement teams can verify supplier price increases, finance can track margin impacts across product portfolios, and sales teams can justify price adjustments to customers with independently verified data. Non-ingredient costs can represent up to 47% of total product costs—a critical component that's now visible alongside your commodity benchmarks.
How to Use It:
Access Cost Models through the main dashboard menu
Choose between starting with a template or building a model from scratch
Select ingredients from your available commodities and assign precise weightings
Add country-specific non-ingredient costs by selecting your industry and location
Save your model to track cost evolution over time as prices update automatically
Related Features: Cost Models integrates seamlessly with Vesper's existing capabilities:
Individual commodity price benchmarks (VPI, Partner prices, and Public benchmarks found in prices widgets)
Incorporate into your own custom dashboards
Coming in Q3 2025: Forecasting capabilities for your cost models
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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:
Find the new categories in the News section of the platform
Set up custom alerts for specific commodities within these categories
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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Summary: Vesper has significantly expanded our European electricity futures coverage with the addition of comprehensive EEX data across 15 countries. This enhancement delivers detailed visibility into power markets throughout Europe, covering both base and peak load contracts across monthly, quarterly, and yearly timeframes.
What's New:
86 new electricity futures contracts covering:
15 European countries including Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain, and more
Base and peak load power contracts
Monthly, quarterly, and yearly delivery periods
Available across multiple widgets including:
Futures widgets (Graph, Table, Historical Settle Graph)
Price & Price Comparison widget
Why It Matters: Energy costs represent a significant component of manufacturing expenses. With this expanded coverage, users can monitor electricity futures across their operational footprint, compare price trends between regions, and develop more effective energy procurement strategies based on forward market indicators.
How to Use It:
Access these new products through any of the supported widgets
Search by country name and contract type (e.g., "German Power Base")
Compare electricity futures across different European markets
Track forward curves to inform energy procurement decisions & Market outlook
Related Features: This expansion complements our existing energy market coverage:
Natural gas futures across major European hubs
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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:
Access the forecast widgets directly on your custom dashboards (add through the search tool if needed)
If a product has a 12-Month forecast horizon, it will automatically be visible on your screen
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.
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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:
Access the Meat & Poultry tab in your news section
Set up notifications for news keywords to keep updated on relevant headlines
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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:
Access Brazilian benchmarks in the Prices widgets by searching for the product name or filtering by BR-IEA source
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Enhanced S&D Map visualization now provides Year-to-Date (YTD) comparisons across regions, enabling instant visual insights into global production, import/export, and stock trends and regional shifts.
Why it Matters:"If I were interested to see where growth in EU milk production is happening, this would really quickly show me that it is not happening in Ireland, Netherlands or France. It's great for presentations, as not having to click through all countries at the same time makes it ideal for regions or groups of countries."
Jasper Endlich, Dairy Market Analyst
How to Use It:
Find the World Map Widget in the S&D category
Select your metric and timeframe of interest
Compare countries and spot regional trends through color coding
Export directly into presentations or add to your custom dashboards
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