In one of the more bizarre trading sessions of late, new contract highs were scored in corn, soybeans, soymeal, cattle, and hogs, and yet only soyoil ended the day higher. The trading range in March soybeans alone was a very wide 67.5 cents, or roughly 4 percent of the contract value. As one market analyst put it, this “rally is crazy.” It was as if traders were trying to figure out which new fundamental input to follow. The session opened with follow-on buying from yesterday and the overnight session. The USDA Export Sales report was a bit bearish, though not scarily so. Wheat sales remain sluggish, corn and soybean sales were unimpressive but not too far off expectations.
The seemingly more bullish news was B...
Russian Grain Markets: 29 June-3 July 2026 The new marketing season has officially begun in Russia, although bearish sentiment has been concentrated in the southern regions closest to the Black Sea ports, where export demand has been weakest. Delays in grain deliveries to inland elevators have...
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...
