SPREADS Sep. crush trades 1.30c/bu while oilshare trades to 47.0%. Sep/Dec corn trades out to 1 1/2c carry from 1/2c, while Dec/March trades out to 8c carry from 7 3/4c. Sep/Dec wheat trades back out to 10c from 9 1/2c. Aug/Nov beans trades from 66c to 70c, while Sep/Nov inverse trades from 3 1/4c to 2c. Sep/Dec meal trades from $2.80 to $3.60. Dec wheat/corn trades from 1.73c to 1.80c. PALM OIL Oct. up 24 ringgits to 4,144 ringgit/mt. NEWS Stocks are higher up 80 pts with crude oil prices breaking to $69.46/barrel, and the US dollar trending lower to 91.89. DELIVERIES August contracts: soyoil: 1 Stonex puts out 1 and stops 1 meal: 94 scattered stopping CALLS...
What You Need to Know Today: Cattle futures extended their sharp selloff Friday as weakening cash cattle prices, deteriorating feedlot profitability, and reduced packer demand continued to weigh on the market. The inability of futures to sustain a rally following last week's bullish Cattle on...
As predicted, the Federal Reserve held rates steady at the last meeting before the midterm elections, likely in part because of the election (see WPI 19 October and 22 September). The decision comes at the tail end of a midterm election cycle that has been marked by the two parties campaigning...
Key Takeaways: WPI’s new EU rapeseed crushing margin models point to weaker processing returns over the next four months due to higher rapeseed procurement costs and weaker product values. Statistical forecasts call for German crushing margins to decline from €181/MT to €...
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.