Soybean futures bounced around on both sides of yesterday's closes in nearly a 30-cent trading range before settling about 7-9 cents higher. Corn futures prices traded as much as about 4 cents lower and 4 cents higher than the previous close before finally settling up just a penny. General Comments The U.S. dollar index was strongly higher again today as U.S. jobless unemployment claims last week were lower than expected, which was taken as a sign of a strengthening labor market. Any bit of good news about the U.S. economy forces comparisons with the economies of other developed countries, principally the EU and Japan, as well as with those of nearly developed countries such as Brazil, India, China and Russia. These days the U.S. looks go...

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