SPREADS Dec crush trades to 1.22c/bu while oilshare trades at 47.24%. Dec/March corn trades 8 1/4c to 8 1/2c, Dec 21/22 inverse trades down to 6c from 9 1/4c. Nov/Jan bean carry trades from 9 3/4c to 10 1/4c while the Nov 21/22 inverse falls to 2 3/4c from 7 3/4c. Nov/March beans traded out to a new low at 18c. Dec wheat/corn trades from 2.12 1/4 from 2.16c. Dec/March wheat trades from 10c to 11 1/2c. PALM OIL November RBD palm oil and olein cash offers on Monday traded up $10/mt higher ending at $1.197.50/mt and $1,200.00 /mt, respectively. NEWS Stocks are down 65 pts with crude oil weaker to $75.32/barrel, and the US dollar trading to 93.74. CALLS Calls are as follows: beans: 8...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
From WPI Consulting
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.