General Comments The hangover from yesterday's accommodating stance taken by the Fed extended the rally in most commodity markets. The promise of historically low interest rates for nearly three more years and more quantitative easing if necessary has been taken as a bullish signal for most raw material commodities as well as precious metals. Low interest rates mean cheap money, which, in theory, should encourage demand for dollar denominated commodities in world markets. The promise of such a low rate for so long also encouraged investment funds to return to raw materials for their portfolios. The dollar sank again early, but recovered most of the day's losses later. Wheat, soybeans, sugar, coffee, cocoa, copper, crude oil and gold were...
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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