Grains and oilseeds nearly all traded lower to start the week with profit taking driving most of the action as the CBOT enters another holiday-shortened week. The only market to finish higher was soyoil, where a geopolitical tension driving bounce in crude oil helped support the vegoil. Improvements in South America’s weather forecast, particularly Argentina, also helped pressure the CBOT Monday with export competition rising around the world for key U.S. products. While markets settled lower, they by and large did not post technical developments that substantially alter the near-term outlook, especially for this holiday-shortened week. WPI looks for corn, wheat, and the entire soy complex to remain defensive this week, but still with...

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