The CBOT was sharply lower on Tuesday with corn breaking below key technical support points and wheat posting another set of selloff lows. Paris wheat futures set the tone for the grain markets overnight and declined to their lowest levels since September 2021. The big surprise for the day, however, was the CBOT soybean market, which fell to 30-cent or greater losses as funds turned into net sellers overnight and accelerated that liquidation during the day session. Like corn, soybeans also took out key support points, aided by a profit-taking and liquidation selloff in soymeal. The Argentine drought story seems to have run its course and traders are more focused on Brazil’s massive corn and soybean crops as well as the bearish outlook...
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...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.