Insights and Stories on Markets

StatsCan confirms small crops, but reaction subdued

Aug. 21, 2014 at 10:34 am CDT

CNS Canada — Canada’s grain and oilseed production will be much smaller than the record crops of 2013-14, according to survey results Statistics Canada released Thursday — but a lack of reaction in futures markets was seen as a sign that the trade is already looking beyond the report. “All […]

Russia eases some food bans to support own industry, Finland

Aug. 20, 2014 at 5:53 pm CDT

CBOT corn, soybeans see bearish weather and yield estimates

Aug. 20, 2014 at 5:36 pm CDT

By Marney Blunt

ICE weekly outlook: More downside possible for canola

Aug. 20, 2014 at 5:30 pm CDT

By Terryn Shiells

U.S. grains: New-crop soy hits contract low as tour sees big yields

Aug. 20, 2014 at 5:23 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME hogs slide with cash, pork prices

Aug. 20, 2014 at 5:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures on Wednesday posted losses for a second straight day, pressured by eroding cash hog and wholesale prices. October ended down 2.325 cents at 92.5 cents per pound, and December at 86.425 cents, 2.2 lower (all figures US$). Wednesday afternoon’s average price […]

By Theopolis Waters

Dr. Oetker orders McCain pizza

Aug. 20, 2014 at 3:11 pm CDT

Germany’s Dr. Oetker is set to take a bigger slice of the Canadian and U.S. pizza market, with a deal to buy McCain Foods’ North American frozen pizza business. New Brunswick-based McCain announced Wednesday it will sell its non-Pizza Pocket-related frozen pizza business to Dr. Oetker for an undisclosed sum, […]

By Staff

U.S. livestock: Profit-taking undercuts CME live cattle

Aug. 19, 2014 at 7:56 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed lower on Tuesday, weighed down by profit-taking that pared morning gains and snapped the market’s three-day winning streak. August live cattle ended 1.1 cents per pound lower at 150.5, and October down 1.325 cents at 147.225 cents (all figures […]

By Theopolis Waters

Poland asks EU to complain to WTO over Russian embargo

Aug. 19, 2014 at 4:06 pm CDT

Warsaw | Reuters –– Poland has asked the European Commission to lodge a formal complaint to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over a Russian ban on EU food products that has hit Poland particularly hard, the Polish economy ministry said Tuesday. The Commission has so far been cautious about taking […]

U.S. grains: Wheat rises on Ukraine supply concerns

Aug. 19, 2014 at 3:52 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures advanced on Tuesday on concerns about reduced supplies from Ukraine, a major exporter, while new-crop soybeans slipped as a widely watched crop tour projected bumper U.S. harvests. Traders focused on Ukraine, expected to be the world’s second-largest grain exporter in the 2014-15 marketing […]

By Tom Polansek