THE OPEN November beans: 3 lower December meal: 1.30 lower December soyoil: 25 higher December corn: 2 lower December wheat: 3 lower The markets were called to open higher but funds came out as sellers. Funds continue to adjust positions heading into the October 12 WASDE report. Technicals broadens the range to the downside for corn as funds are seeming to liquidate current length. Today is day 2 of the Goldman roll, which is pressuring bean spreads. World that an agreement had been reached to extend the government's borrowing authority into December sent stocks higher with a quick recovery in crude, which underpinned soyoil pieces and oilshare. SOY The soy complex was called higher b...
What You Need to Know Today: There is a global rotation out of tech stocks right now amid profit-taking and expectations of interest rate hikes later this year. The White House said Iran will use its upcoming unsanctioned oil revenue to buy U.S. agricultural products, a claim that Iran later s...
USDA will release its Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report on Thursday. Below are analysts’ estimates for the report. The biggest change since the 1 March report is the number of market hogs, which is expected to be up 1.1 percent from what was implied in March. The percent increase in hogs we...
Key Takeaways: Argentina is a major global agricultural exporter, but producer returns have historically been constrained by export taxes. Export taxes have been a long-standing policy tool since 1955, reintroduced in 2002 after Argentina’s financial crisis, and have since remained a key...
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