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World wheat prices and Philippine commodity prices

World Bank Pink Sheet monthly US Hard Red Winter wheat price in US dollars. This page lists every Philippine commodity price whose monthly changes measurably track it, the delay between the two, and how much of the move carries through.

The strongest link currently measured is Pineapple, Native (Farmgate (PSA)), which moves against world wheat prices with a correlation of -0.50 at a lag of 4 months, measured over 44 overlapping months. At that lag, a 10% move in world wheat prices has historically gone with a -46.3% move in the Pineapple, Native price.

Commodities that move with world wheat prices

13 links that clear both the significance and sample-size tests, strongest first.
CommodityCorrelationLagElasticityMonthsStrength
Pineapple, Native Farmgate (PSA)-0.504 months-4.6344moderate
Eggplant, native, long Farmgate (PSA)+0.476 months+2.0229moderate
Banana Others Farmgate (PSA)-0.468 months-3.5529moderate
Coffee Arabica (roasted) Wholesale (PSA)+0.375 months+0.2176moderate
Coffee Liberica (green coffee beans) Farmgate (PSA)-0.3610 months-1.7834moderate
Chicken (Whole Broiler) Retail (PSA)+0.354 months+0.11104moderate
Onion native (red shallot), multiplier Wholesale (PSA)+0.348 months+1.61100moderate
Corngrits Yellow Wholesale (PSA)+0.343 months+0.18103moderate
Beef (Pure Meat) Retail (PSA)+0.324 months+0.03104moderate
Corngrain White Wholesale (PSA)-0.329 months-0.60103moderate
Kalaso [Lizard fish] Wholesale (PSA)+0.3210 months+0.2497moderate
Mango Carabao, green Wholesale (PSA)-0.301 month-0.9078moderate
Sweet Peas Native Wholesale (PSA)+0.304 months+1.9955moderate
Correlation is measured on month-on-month percentage changes at the lag shown. Elasticity is the percentage move in the commodity per 1% move in the driver at that lag. Months is the number of overlapping monthly observations behind the estimate.
Last recomputed 2026-10-07.

How this is measured

  1. Both series are bucketed to monthly and converted to month-on-month percentage change, so a slow-drifting price level cannot manufacture a correlation.
  2. The commodity's monthly change is regressed on the driver's change at every lag from 0 to 12 months.
  3. The lag with the strongest correlation is kept; ties resolve toward the shorter lag.
  4. The link is labelled strong, moderate, weak or none from the correlation and its p-value together — strong requires a correlation of at least 0.5 at p < 0.01, moderate at least 0.3 at p < 0.05.
  5. Pairs with fewer than 24 overlapping monthly observations are excluded from every ranking on this site, however strong they score. With thousands of comparisons run each night, thin pairs clear a significance test on noise alone.

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These are statistical associations measured from historical co-movement, not proven causation, and they are not a forecast of any individual price. Figures are recomputed nightly from official published data and change as new releases land. Informational only — not financial advice.