50 years chart of Cotton

Looking a Cotton and the 50 years of growth in prices. Cotton over the years has been very volatile. If you look at the the chart below, the gray bars are recessions and the market price moves at large percentages. In 1969 it was 25 cents for cotton. The current price of cotton as of August 25, 2017 is $0.6845 per pound. This post is to give insight about this commodity.

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