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  • Morning Update

    The morning grain trade turns lower after early evening strength. The grain trade pushed higher on Thursday evening on follow-through technical buying from the firm closes across exchanges led by wheat on Thursday. Yesterday’s comment from US trade representative nominee Jamison Greer indicated that China’s compliance with the Phase 1 trade deal was going to…

  • Morning Update

    Soybeans helped prompt an overnight recovery bounce in price. Short covering was a feature in the overnight grain trade, with soybeans leading to the recovery bounce. The news was sparse as for the buying interest, other than index funds, which are now buying breaks. Early Wednesday morning, corn, soybeans, and wheat again saw new highs…

  • Morning Update

    New highs were scored again overnight before the morning drift. Yesterday was another day of strength on the back of rumored potential purchases of US corn and soybeans by China. Thoughts that we could begin to see moves to revive Phase One as part of the negotiations between Trump and Xi will keep traders monitoring…

  • Morning Update

    Soybean oil and wheat lead overnight weakness for Turn-around Tuesday. This morning’s grain trade is mostly softer as soybean oil fell the sharp losses overnight on the Canadian canola oil that will continue to flow to the US without a tariff for the next 30 days. That put pressure on soybeans, while China did follow…

  • Morning Update

    Overnight grain trade mitigates losses from tariff application over the weekend. The grain trade opened lower overnight on the implementation of the trade tariffs against Mexico, Canada and China. Losses were less than anticipated, especially for soybeans, when considering the improving weather in Argentina. The trade improved overnight alongside outside markets like energies and metals,…

  • Morning Update

    Friday grain markets are sharply lower as tariffs loom. As the threatened 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada could be in place as early as Saturday the grain markets are retreating into the weekend as each country is not doing their share with trade imbalances and illegal immigrants. Mexico has been the worlds and US’s…

  • Morning Update

    Soybeans and corn retreat while wheat maintains yesterday’s strong gains. This morning’s grain trade has soybeans on retreat, with corn following, while wheat tries to maintain strength. Wednesday saw huge capital inflows in the grain market in open interest, which showed corn jumping 33,428 contracts to a new all-time record of 2,013,448. Soybean open interest…

  • Morning Update

    Argentine weather promotes overnight grain rally. Grain futures are higher this morning as the continual disappointment in forecasts that Argentina would receive bountiful rains in the country’s southern half continues to come up short. Rains have occurred in some areas of southern Brazil and Argentina in the past five days, but coverage has been just…

  • Morning Update

    Welcome to Turnaround-Tuesday with a firm morning grain trade. The grain trade is jumping in Turnaround-Tuesday style after a Friday-Monday break in price. Recovery is in low volume as heat is still manifested in southern Argentina, which awaits meaningful rains, which are always on the horizon in the forecast. Planting progress for Matto Grosso’s second…