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Market Commentary: CBOT Dips as Short Covering Subsides; Livestock Fall on Macro Worries

The CBOT was mostly lower on Thursday as traders took a day to pause and reassess positions and the grain market outlook with just one day of trade left before the weekend. Too, the September WASDE is looming next week and traders are positioning and adjusting expectations in advance of that report. This all meant that wheat and corn futures drifted lower in quiet trade for the day as the immediate surge of profit taking subsided. Soybeans and soymeal were down sharply in early trade, but gradually pared back those losses such that the former market settled a few cents higher for the day. Soyoil turned higher as well after it bounced off technical and psychological support levels with a rebound in Malaysian palm oil and steady crude oil fut...

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Market Commentary: It Was Wheat’s Week

Russia’s Vladimir Putin warned that Ukraine using Western long-range missiles to attack inside his country would bring NATO into the war. That and his threats to use nuclear weapons and the attack this week on a grain carrying ship in the Black Sea pressured the gold market and likely whe...

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Hurricane Francine Energy Production Disruptions

The WTI Crude oil futures saw its third consecutive day of gains from the impacts of Hurricane Francine in the Gulf of Mexico and the contract remains up on the week.   Francine made landfall on Wednesday on the Louisiana coast and has now been downgraded to a tropical storm. It is tr...

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Summary of Futures

Dec 24 Corn closed at $4.1325/bushel, up $0.0725 from yesterday's close.  Dec 24 Wheat closed at $5.9475/bushel, up $0.1625 from yesterday's close.  Nov 24 Soybeans closed at $10.0625/bushel, down $0.045 from yesterday's close.  Dec 24 Soymeal closed at $322.9/short ton, down $0...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: It Was Wheat’s Week

Russia’s Vladimir Putin warned that Ukraine using Western long-range missiles to attack inside his country would bring NATO into the war. That and his threats to use nuclear weapons and the attack this week on a grain carrying ship in the Black Sea pressured the gold market and likely whe...

energy

Hurricane Francine Energy Production Disruptions

The WTI Crude oil futures saw its third consecutive day of gains from the impacts of Hurricane Francine in the Gulf of Mexico and the contract remains up on the week.   Francine made landfall on Wednesday on the Louisiana coast and has now been downgraded to a tropical storm. It is tr...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Summary of Futures

Dec 24 Corn closed at $4.1325/bushel, up $0.0725 from yesterday's close.  Dec 24 Wheat closed at $5.9475/bushel, up $0.1625 from yesterday's close.  Nov 24 Soybeans closed at $10.0625/bushel, down $0.045 from yesterday's close.  Dec 24 Soymeal closed at $322.9/short ton, down $0...

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WPI’s Post-WASDE Quarterly Corn, Soy Outlook

Now that the WASDE has come and gone, it’s time for the commodity market analyst community to argue about why USDA’s projections are wrong and what the world will actually look like over the next marketing year. WPI is loath to miss this monthly festival of forecasting, so we offer...

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