Putin and Xi strike a deal on agriculture

Wheat on the Matif fell to the lowest level in a year and a half during the last trading session. The recipe for that is by now well-known. In Australia, the financial market regulator imposed a multimillion-dollar fine for suspicious transactions on the wheat futures market there. While in the US Labor Day was celebrated, the leaders of China, Russia, and India were not idle. They were all three at a summit in China.