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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 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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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:
Navigate to the production widget in your dashboard
Select the relevant product in the dropdown
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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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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Expanded sugar price coverage with new country-specific Vesper Price Indices for Germany, Netherlands, Poland, and Spain, complementing our regional EU benchmarks. All benchmarks are updated weekly and remain DAP (Delivered at Place) derived from actual market participants aiding price discovery.
Why it Matters: National sugar markets have distinct dynamics driven by local production, trade flows, and supply-demand factors. While regional benchmarks provide essential context, country-level visibility enables more precise procurement strategies, especially in deficit markets like Spain that rely heavily on imports.
What's New:
Weekly white sugar benchmarks (ICUMSA 45) for:
Germany
Netherlands
Poland
Spain
Delivery basis: DAP (Delivered at Place)
Weekly updates every Wednesday
How to Use It:
Access Sugar benchmarks in the Prices widgets by searching for ‘white sugar‘
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We've launched two powerful features to help you navigate the platform more efficiently: Dashboard Search and Vesbot. Each serves a distinct purpose to help you find exactly what you need, when you need it.
Two simple ways to discover available data:
Direct product search
Search for specific products (e.g., "WPI", "Sugar", "Cocoa")
See all available data types for that product
Add relevant data directly to your dashboards
Category navigation
Browse through product categories
Select product within the category
Explore available data types
Both paths help you discover and organize the data you need in your dashboards.
Get instant answers about platform features
Learn how to use specific platform capabilities
Access platform support 24/7
Available through the help icon in the bottom right corner
Finding the right data and understanding how to use it are crucial for making timely decisions. Dashboard Search helps you quickly locate and organize market data, while Vesbot ensures you can instantly learn how to use platform features effectively.
When To Use Which?
Click the search bar above your workspaces
Enter what you're looking for (e.g., "WPI prices")
Add Country/region
Add relevant data directly to your dashboards or create a new one
Click the help icon in the bottom right corner
Type your question (e.g., "How do I compare prices between regions?")
Get immediate answers and guidance
Follow up with additional questions if needed
Left with questions? Our Support team is still available to help, just ask Vesbot to connect you.
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Find Vesbot in the platform's chat functionality by clicking the Help button in the bottom right of the screen.
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