Here are a few more things to keep you up at night as we head home for the long holiday weekend.
It appears we survived the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar. Some believe that this week's collapse in grain and oilseed prices was the result of Mayans liquidating their positions. Maybe they will buy them back next week. The U.S. fiscal cliff will replace the Mayan calendar as the primary topic of conversation over the next week or so. No one appears capable of agreeing to anything, even within their own political parties. Financial markets crashed early today because the Republicans in the House couldn't support Speaker Boehner's Plan B. A Bloomberg survey of 31 analysts this week showed the following estimates of pric...
Yesterday, Alberta held a referendum on whether to begin the process toward independence from Canada. With more than one million votes counted as of early Tuesday morning, around 77 percent supported remaining in Canada, and 23 percent voted to start the process of separation, according to unof...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Pakistan’s smaller wheat farmers have been holding protests to complain about the lack of a support price for wheat and the potential expansion of GMO crop production. They also want the reinstatement of PASSCO, the governme...
What You Need to Know Today: Harvest pressure in the U.S. sent corn and soybeans lower as supplies increased and there were signs USDA’s upward revisions to yields in the October WASDE could be close to right. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalated over the weekend, with Ukrai...
