The CBOT was mostly higher in low-volume trading with some end-of-month position adjusting/profit taking occurring alongside technically-fueled fund buying. New crop corn and soybean futures hit new contract highs while old crop futures were steady/higher in range-bound trade. Funds are thought to have bought some 6,000 contracts of corn and 5,000 contracts of wheat while selling 4,000 contracts of soybeans. Notably, soymeal hit major support levels on Monday, which sparked the reversal of long soyoil/short soymeal spreads. The weekly Export Inspections report has become surprisingly consistent in its market implications in recent months. Over the past two months, it seems to WPI that the report is nearly always bullish soybeans, neu...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.