The Market It was a tough week for soybeans, which must have seen a dead cat bounce last week because this week peeled back the July contract by 46.5 cents and sent it back below $14 for the first time in a long while. There was even more ignominy for soyoil, with the July contract marking a new contract low (49₵/pound intrasession) and losing 8.8 percent for the week. Soyoil got beat down each and every day this week. Only soymeal ended in the black for this second week in May, adding $6.80 to July and closing at 432.9/ST.
Speculators again cut their net long positions, this time by 9,847 contracts, down to 27,027 contracts. USDA’s May WASDE was released today, and it sees U.S. soybean exports dipping, plus domestic and gl...
WPI recently completed an expansion of our methodology for estimating and forecasting U.S. and global soybean crushing margins. The new approach incorporates the energy market’s expanding influence on the oilseed sector and the structural changes in global biofuel demand. This report is i...
Reflect for a moment on what you eat. There is a lot of advice out there in the ether about what you should eat, but really, what do you currently eat and how much? The good people at the USDA have some data for you, to help you answer that question. USDA says that we eat quite a bit of meat. L...
Key Market Insights Macros: Inflation isn’t cooling — it’s moving higher again. March PCE inflation (Personal Consumption Expenditures index — the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation) rose 0.7 percent month-over-month, pushing the annual rate to 3.5 percent, the h...
