Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. grain and soybeans were roughly flat on Friday, stabilizing amid a lack of fresh fundamental news following steep gains earlier this week tied mostly to investor short-covering, traders and analysts said. Corn and soybean futures each were unchanged to slightly lower at the Chicago Board of Trade after prices failed […] Read more
U.S. grains: Prices steady on short-covering, gain for week
U.S. grains: Prices rise on short-covering, slow loadings in Brazil
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. soybean futures climbed to a 1-1/2-week high on Tuesday while wheat and corn each gained about one per cent, boosted by investor short-covering and a backlog of export loadings at Brazilian ports. Prices rose as trade resumed following a three-day weekend due to Monday’s U.S. Presidents Day holiday. They were […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Cattle limit down on equities downturn
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle futures tumbled more than two per cent on Monday, falling in sympathy with steep downturns in equities markets and following disappointing trades last week in cash cattle. Front-month live and feeder plummeted by their respective daily price limits of three and 4.5 cents/lb., with feeder cattle extending losses to […] Read more
U.S. grains: Wheat falls to three-week low
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures slumped for a second session on Friday, anchored by ample global supplies and after top importer Egypt canceled a tender for the second time this week. Corn and soybeans also fell at the Chicago Board of Trade, with all three markets posting a weekly decline ahead of a […] Read more
U.S. grains: Soy, corn ease from six-week highs
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S soybeans and corn futures fell on Wednesday, pressured by profit-taking after recent six-week highs and outlooks for needed rains in South America. Wheat settled narrowly higher at the Chicago Board of Trade after a more than one per cent drop in the dollar against a basket of currencies made U.S. […] Read more
U.S. grains: Corn, wheat up on short-covering ahead of long weekend
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn and wheat futures each jumped one per cent or more on Friday, shrugging off earlier losses as investors took profits on bearish short bets ahead of a three-day holiday weekend, traders and analysts said. Soybeans eased at the Chicago Board of Trade, pressured by a steep downturn in soymeal […] Read more
U.S. grains: Wheat prices fall on hefty supplies
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat fell for the second straight day on Thursday, pressured by technical selling, ample global supplies and lacklustre demand for U.S. shipments and dragged by Paris futures which hit a contract low early in the session. Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures extended declines after Euronext March milling wheat tumbled […] Read more
U.S. grains: Corn, soy steady on technicals after big gains
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybeans edged higher on Wednesday while wheat prices were slightly lower at the Chicago Board of Trade, with all three markets steadying after hitting multi-week peaks in the previous session following a bullish U.S. Department of Agriculture supply report. CBOT March wheat reached a fresh 2-1/2 week high […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Hogs jump on expectations of tighter supplies
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures surged as much as 2.8 percent on Tuesday, in a bull-spreading rally on expectations of seasonally tighter supplies and ideas of stronger retail demand for pork, traders and analysts said. Investors were buying the Chicago Mercantile Exchange February lean hogs contract and selling deferred contracts such as […] Read more
Ardent restarts Illinois flour mill after flooding
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– The largest U.S. flour miller, Ardent Mills, has resumed operations in Alton, Illinois, as floodwaters along the Mississippi River receded while a mill at Chester, Ill. will remain down for weeks, company executives said Tuesday. Near record-high floodwaters following deadly winter storms forced the company to shut down the mills a […] Read more
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