After yesterday’s charge forward in soybeans and a lower close in the overnight, optimists on a trade deal with China again took over and brought another higher close that this time infected both the corn and wheat markets. As stated in Matt’s adjacent analysis, this seems overwrought, but ‘the market is bigger than you and me.’ Yesterday’s rallying cry from President Trump to “MAKE SOYBEANS, AND OTHER ROW CROPS, GREAT AGAIN!” coupled with his promise to make China’s refusal to buy U.S. soybeans a "major topic of discussion" late this month at the APEC summit in Korea is apparently enough to buoy multi-session optimism. Wall Street also keeps an optimistic position (see below). Of larger near-...
From WPI Consulting
Weighing in on strategic realignment
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