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PM Post - Position Evening Ahead of Report

THE OPEN November beans:  10 1/2 higher December meal:  4.40 higher December soyoil:  14 higher December corn:  6 3/4 higher September wheat:  4 higher The markets opened as expected with further short-covering in grains and technical buying in wheat.  Traders returned to a buy meal/sell soyoil trade, pushing soyoil back to the lower end of its trading range.    Macros were negative, with crude lower which was the major reason for a weaker soyoil trade.  Argentina's grain markets remain closed today and Friday due to a public holiday.   SOY The major feature in the soy complex was that of weaker oilshare as traders continued to sell soyoil on weaker macros.   Stocks...

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