Now halfway through the month of September, the CBOT is looking like the rally is ending, or at least on pause for a while. Row crops and wheat were lower as the focus turns to the large U.S. harvest and overbought technical conditions. The U.S. corn harvest is starting and early yield results should be available by the weekend. WPI’s view is that it will be difficult for the CBOT to sustain rallies with harvest starting and U.S. weather risks diminishing rapidly. The World Trade Organization ruled in favor of China regarding $200 billion of tariffs the U.S. applied to Chinese products in 2018. The move is the first official loss for the Trump administration and the ruling theoretically allows China to apply countervailing duti...
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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