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Market Commentary: Tariff Tweets Threaten to Upend Typically Slow Pre-Holiday Trade

The CBOT was mixed and mostly lower to start the between-holidays trading season with the soy complex seeing the worst of the selling. Soybeans – and the oilseed complex more broadly – are seeing pressure from excellent conditions in South America as well as the political ramifications of President-elect Trump’s tariff plans. Wheat and corn fared little better for the day, however, with slackening export demand and few other fundamental variables in play working in favor of bears. Typically, grain trade in December is a range-bound, low-volume affair – especially in years with large crops and comfortable stocks projections – and we may be seeing markets starting to settle into such ideas. The wild card this year, however, is the rapidly evo...

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Market Commentary: Grains Retreat on Profit Taking, Tariff Talk; Cattle Hit $200 for First Time

Except for soymeal and the livestock markets, the CBOT was lower on Wednesday with traders booking profits and taking a more cautious approach after the recent runup in prices. Too, rhetoric out of the White House is keeping traders guessing on the possible application of and retaliation to var...

Transatlantic Tariffication; Biofuel Battles

Transatlantic Tariffication President Trump’s bromance with big tech billionaires has refocused his attention on Europe. The large penalties and regulatory hurdles being imposed by Brussels on America’s ANTMAMA (Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon) are being fram...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Summary of Futures

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feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: Grains Retreat on Profit Taking, Tariff Talk; Cattle Hit $200 for First Time

Except for soymeal and the livestock markets, the CBOT was lower on Wednesday with traders booking profits and taking a more cautious approach after the recent runup in prices. Too, rhetoric out of the White House is keeping traders guessing on the possible application of and retaliation to var...

Transatlantic Tariffication; Biofuel Battles

Transatlantic Tariffication President Trump’s bromance with big tech billionaires has refocused his attention on Europe. The large penalties and regulatory hurdles being imposed by Brussels on America’s ANTMAMA (Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon) are being fram...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Summary of Futures

Please see attachment...

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Global Wheat Dominance

Russia’s wheat supplies may be tighter, but it is still not out of the market. Egypt's state grain buyer, Mostakbal Misr, is said to have made a “significant” purchase of Russian wheat. The four shipments will be shipped on four vessels sailing under the Egyptian flag, which m...

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