The debt ceiling and budget agreement talks between Congress and the White House resumed yesterday, after a Sunday phone call between President Biden, as he was returning from Japan, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (D-California). Talks wrapped up around midnight on Monday. No deal has been reached, but both sides struck an optimistic tone that progress is being made. As President Biden said, both sides agree that “default is not really on the table” and mentioned in a press conference in Japan that he would agree to spending cuts, but not solely on Republicans’ “partisan terms” and that they’d have to move from their “extreme position.” McCarthy said, “We’re going to find a basel...
What You Need to Know Today: The hot, dry weather forecast continues to drive strength in grain futures with corn and soybeans hitting another day of strong gains. Monday’s Crop Progress and Conditions data were in line with market expectations and showed relatively few concerns for the...
Yesterday we wrote about the Q1 GDP numbers and the June employment reports in an article entitled Real GDP for Q1 Relying on AI Buildout, Held Back by Consumer Spending. That article mentioned that consumer spending had become a drag on GDP. Nonetheless, real GDP in Q1 was revised upward to 2...
Key Takeaways: The Middle East and North Africa's arid climate and limited water resources have created a structural dependence on imported wheat. Government wheat tenders in major importing countries serve as important benchmarks for global trade, providing insight into exporter competitivene...
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