Insights and Stories on International

U.S. grains: Wheat falls on profit-taking

Oct. 2, 2015 at 5:06 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures sank on Friday on a round of end-of-week profit taking after prices hit an 8-1/2 week high on Thursday, traders said. Soybeans also fell, pressured by the expanding harvest of what is expected to be a bumper crop in the U.S., while corn […]

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle snap four-day losing streak

Oct. 2, 2015 at 4:36 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

Bulgaria opts out of growing GM crops

Oct. 1, 2015 at 8:29 pm CDT

By Reuters

Starbucks to switch to all cage-free eggs by 2020

Oct. 1, 2015 at 8:25 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

ConAgra to cut 1,500 jobs, shift base to Chicago from Omaha

Oct. 1, 2015 at 7:06 pm CDT

By Anjali Athavaley Sruthi Ramakrishnan

U.S. grains: Wheat extends rally, soybeans slip

Oct. 1, 2015 at 3:50 pm CDT

Reuters — Chicago wheat rose more than one per cent on Thursday, extending a rally triggered by Wednesday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture data that put the 2015 U.S. crop below market estimates. Corn futures rose slightly on technical buying and spillover support from wheat. Soybeans slumped on pressure from an […]

By Rod Nickel

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle again sag to two-year bottom

Oct. 1, 2015 at 3:44 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Thursday slid to a two-year low for a second consecutive session, after investors sold October and bought deferred months in anticipation of more cash price weakness, traders said. Spot-October settled at 121.4 cents/lb., down 3.275 cents, and December 0.925 […]

By Theopolis Waters

TPP trade ministers push to wrap up ambitious trade deal

Sep. 30, 2015 at 8:23 pm CDT

Atlanta | Reuters — Pacific trade ministers readied on Wednesday to close the biggest trade deal in a generation but warned there was still work to be done on issues ranging from intellectual property to trade in dairy and automobiles. Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb said ministers from the 12 […]

By Ana Isabel Martinez Krista Hughes

CHS says Viterra intriguing at right price

Sep. 30, 2015 at 7:42 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. farm co-operative and grains trader CHS Inc. would be interested in the Canadian grain handling assets of embattled commodities trader Glencore, but only if they came at a discounted price, CHS CEO Carl Casale said in an exclusive interview. As part of a debt-reduction plan, […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. grains: Wheat futures jump as USDA cuts production outlook

Sep. 30, 2015 at 6:26 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures rebounded on Wednesday, after a government report showed that wheat production was less than traders had expected. Meanwhile, corn futures lost ground, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s quarterly grain stocks report showed that both corn and soybean supplies were plentiful and U.S. […]

By P.J. Huffstutter