Through the Consumer Goods Forum, over 400 corporations made a commitment to achieve zero net deforestation in sourcing and packaging of their products by 2020.
In other markets, reductions in net-long positions were seen in both the disaggregated and legacy weekly commitment of traders reports in all other metals, with speculators turning net-short in copper.
Speculators added to their net-long gold position in the disaggregated commitment of traders report released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, but cut positions slightly in the legacy report.