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Market Commentary

General Comments We suppose today's market was the drought version of "Turnaround Tuesday." Instead of running 20-30-40 cents higher like Monday's market did, corn, soybeans and wheat all traded in narrower ranges on both sides of unchanged before ending the day session indecisively with only small price changes up or down. Overnight trade also was mixed although volume was heavy. We see today's price action as reflecting speculative longs' profit taking offset by fresh buying from managed money and possibly some end-users. Speculators are not giving up on the bull market, but some are banking profits, hoping for a price dip to replace their long positions. However, at least today there was a fresh inflow of mostly outside money to balan...

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