THE OPEN
May beans: 4 1/4 lower March meal: .20 lower March soyoil: 49 lower May corn: 1 1/2 lower May wheat: 5 lower
The markets opened lower as called with March soyoil and oilshare trading lower. China continues to add stimulus to keep its economy going which is translating to better stock performance today. The IMF announced that world growth would continue to improve despite the coronavirus. Technical trade continues in wheat, with funds long and grabbing headlines to justify their position. Buy meal/sell soyoil and buy beans/sell corn became the trade of the day, as wheat prices sat where they were for much of the day having tacked on huge gains yesterday. Later in the session bean prices tacked on more gains wi...
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...
