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PM Post - As Expected but Corn Pressured

THE OPEN November beans:  2 higher December meal:  .10 higher December soyoil:  18 higher December corn:  1 1/2 higher September wheat:  5 higher The markets opened as expected but corn prices remained under pressure even after a good sale was posted to China.  Soyoil prices traded higher on the back of a surging palm oil market, which pushed oilshare higher.  Beans traded higher following strong soyoil futures trade.  Rains over portions of the Dakotas, Minn., Iowa and Wisconsin kept rallies under control.   SOY Oilshare values pushed higher as December soyoil futures found new buying on friendly palm oil price and charts.  December soyoil once again traded past 29c after pos...

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Market Commentary: Limping Home After a Dreary Week

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Competing Manufacturing Data

According to S&P Global, the US manufacturing sector grew for the fourth consecutive month in September. The U.S. manufacturing purchasing managers' index recorded 52 points in September, down from 53 a month prior and indicating a weaker rate of expansion of the manufacturing sector. A rea...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

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feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Summary of Futures

Dec 25 Corn closed at $4.19/bushel, down $0.0275 from yesterday's close.  Dec 25 Wheat closed at $5.1525/bushel, up $0.005 from yesterday's close.  Nov 25 Soybeans closed at $10.18/bushel, down $0.0575 from yesterday's close.  Dec 25 Soymeal closed at $278.6/short ton, down $0.7...

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feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Recent Market Volatility Increases Futures Mispricing

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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.

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