Today felt like the good old days in many respects. The most important one is that no markets opened until 9:30 a.m. this morning and they closed at noon. That session was a little shorter than the old 9:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. trading sessions, but it certainly felt very good. It was a very civilized day. I didn't have to get up in the middle of the night when Europe came to work to check on the markets. My wife wondered why there wasn't a computer in the bathroom or under the bed. The world was like it should be. My holiday wish is that the folks at the CME (and other exchanges) would also remember how good it felt, but that simply won't happen. The 21-hour trading sessions really offer nothing more than diluted trading. There is always a...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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