Insights and Stories on International

U.S. grains: Wheat jumps on short-covering

Oct. 31, 2016 at 5:32 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures climbed more than one per cent on Monday as traders covered short positions following U.S. regulatory data last week showing an unexpectedly large build in bearish wheat bets. Soybean and corn futures both were flat to narrowly mixed in thin-volume […]

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs rise for third straight session

Oct. 31, 2016 at 5:24 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Soy eases on profit-taking after big weekly gains

Oct. 28, 2016 at 3:50 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer

Belgium’s Walloon parliament backs EU-Canada trade deal

Oct. 28, 2016 at 2:04 pm CDT

By Robert-Jan Bartunek

EU probe to hold up ChemChina’s acquisition of Syngenta

Oct. 28, 2016 at 1:58 pm CDT

By Julia Fioretti

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on export sales, soymeal gains

Oct. 27, 2016 at 4:57 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures were narrowly higher on Thursday, reaching two-month peaks as they extended gains on the back of big export sales to China and as soymeal futures surged two per cent. Chicago Board of Trade corn futures rose for the third straight session, while wheat […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: CME hogs climb despite Smithfield plant closure

Oct. 27, 2016 at 4:50 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures pared the prior day’s losses on Thursday, led by technical buying in the face of ample packer inventories and a temporary shutdown at an East Coast packing plant, traders said. December lean hogs finished 1.175 cent/lb. higher at 45.375 cents […]

By Theopolis Waters

Belgium breaks deadlock over EU-Canada trade pact

Oct. 27, 2016 at 9:12 am CDT

Brussels | Reuters — Belgium agreed a deal with its regional parliaments on Thursday to approve a landmark EU-Canada free trade agreement, breaking a deadlock that has blocked the pact for weeks. Prime Minister Charles Michel said the heads of the regions had drawn up an addendum to the agreement […]

By Robert-Jan Bartunek

WHO cancer agency asked experts to withhold glyphosate documents

Oct. 26, 2016 at 6:19 pm CDT

London | Reuters — The World Health Organization’s cancer agency — which is facing criticism over how it classifies carcinogens — advised academic experts on one of its review panels not to disclose documents they were asked to release under U.S. freedom of information laws. In a letter and an […]

By Kate Kelland

Belgians struggle to agree on text to save CETA

Oct. 26, 2016 at 5:55 pm CDT

Brussels | Reuters –– Belgian politicians failed to break their deadlock over a planned EU-Canada free trade agreement on Wednesday, but agreed to resume talks on Thursday in a sign they may be nearing a consensus that would keep the deal alive. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), seven years […]

By philip-blenkinsop Robert-Jan Bartunek