Public Health COVID-19 Returns with a Vengeance Similar to its quasi-island province to the south, mainland China’s effort to control the impact of new coronavirus strains through isolation and lockdowns is now on the ropes. So far in March, the country has recorded 453,141 cases and 3,824 related deaths, both of which are records. With the seven-day average for fatalities at nearly 285/day, that rate has exceeded the previous peak of 184/day set in April 2020, when there were no vaccines and the disease was rapidly spreading throughout the world. The other crucial difference this time is that major coastal metropolises, such as Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, and Shanghai, have become the new epicenters. Factories in the sou...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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