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U.S. livestock: Fund buying sends CME hogs mostly higher

Apr. 14, 2014 at 5:00 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Most Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog contracts gained ground on Monday with help from fund buying and anticipation of reduced production in the weeks ahead, traders and analysts said. Some packing plants plan to be dark during the Easter holiday weekend, limiting their need for hogs. Processors […]

U.S. grains: Soybeans extend drop on China defaults; corn, wheat sag

Apr. 11, 2014 at 6:36 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Fund buying extends CME live cattle gains

Apr. 11, 2014 at 3:52 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Wheat sags as rains target Plains; soy hit by defaults

Apr. 10, 2014 at 6:53 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: CME hogs, live cattle finish mostly lower

Apr. 10, 2014 at 6:47 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

Scientists make ethanol without corn or other crops

Apr. 10, 2014 at 1:56 am CDT

Washington | Reuters — Scientists said Wednesday they have developed a new way to make liquid ethanol efficiently without using corn or other crops needed in the conventional method for producing the biofuel. The scientists said their process turns carbon monoxide gas into liquid ethanol with the help of an […]

By Will Dunham

CME Group trading outage exposes weakened trading floor

Apr. 9, 2014 at 8:30 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Open-outcry traders sprang into action during an electronic trading halt in CME Group agricultural markets on Tuesday, but a better solution to the outage would have been to close the pits down too, traders and investors said a day later. In chaos following the outage on […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME hogs settle higher after volatile session

Apr. 9, 2014 at 6:51 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hogs finished higher on Wednesday with June up the three-cent limit as fund buying and short-covering beat back early losses, traders said. Futures raced to catch up to CME’s hog index at 129.19 cents (all figures US$). April hogs closed up 1.725 cents […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Wheat tumbles after USDA hikes world stocks forecast

Apr. 9, 2014 at 2:58 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell 1.8 per cent on Wednesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture raised its forecast for global 2013-14 wheat ending stocks above trade expectations, traders said. Corn followed wheat lower, but soybeans advanced with front-month May setting a life-of-contract high above $15 a […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: CME hogs tumble on slowing pork demand, weak cash market

Apr. 8, 2014 at 5:44 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures tumbled Tuesday on slowing demand for pork, in a session disrupted by technical problems that halted trading on the exchange’s Globex electronic platform near the close. Before Globex was restored nearly an hour later, brokers were forced to execute orders […]

By Karl Plume