Introduction

Market Brief is a curated data platform designed to support your trade strategy decisions with actionable insights.
Before exploring the user guide, it’s important to familiarize yourself with a few key terms:

• Topics: Categories in Market Brief that group data based on specific areas of interest. You can browse these topics to explore insights relevant to your needs.
• Curations: Automatically generated reports in Market Brief organized by Topic, Product, and Country.
• Units: The individual elements within each curation, such as charts, tables, or graphs.

Navigating Market Brief

1. Click on Market Brief through the top navigation bar, or click here.

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2. Use the Topics menu bar to explore Market Briefs by topic.

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3. Use the search bar in the middle to search for Market Briefs by product.

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Real-Life Example: Export Market Analysis for Ecuador's Fresh Bananas

In this example, we will guide you through how to access the curation for “Ecuador’s Fresh Banana.”

1. In the search bar, type the product you want to search for — in this case, Fresh Banana.

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2. Click on "Fresh Banana" in the dropdown results.

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3. On the Curations product page, you can access market curations by topic.

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4. On the left menu bar, click on 'Export Market,' and you will see a list of curations for the topic ‘Export Market’.

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5. Click on the 'Export Country' dropdown menu in the middle, then search for and select ‘Ecuador’.

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6. Click on the ‘Export Market trends analysis for Fresh Banana from Ecuador’ curation.

*Please note that it may take a few seconds to process the data for the curation.

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7. From the curation detail page, you can set the month and year of the curation

As a free user, you can only access data from over two years ago. Paid users get full access, including the most recent data.

Curations are updated weekly, so if you are viewing the current month’s curations, make sure to come back the following week to access the updated data.

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8. Click on the flag icon to save this curation to your Saved list for easy future access.

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9. Use the right menu bar to view the units in this curation and easily navigate to the one that interests you.

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10. Check out the scatter chart of export prices for fresh bananas in Ecuador to view the export price trends.

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11. By clicking on one of the dots in the scatter chart, you will be able to view the price data for that particular period, as well as the exporter.

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12. You can change the graph from a scatter chart to a table format to view the data in detail.

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13. By default, the chart is set to hide outliers. If you want to see the full data, click on 'Show all data' in the menu button above the chart.

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14. In addition, you can check the related analytics for this chart, in this case, the Transaction Explorer.

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All of the curated data functions similarly, so we advise you to go through all the units in the curation to further understand the true value of the Market Brief curations.

New topics and features are consistently added to Market Brief, so stay tuned for updates and optimize your business with Market Brief.