Insights and Stories on Markets

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

Apr. 11, 2014 at 6:36 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybeans fell for a second straight session on Friday, dropping further below an eight-month high touched earlier in the week, as Chinese importers’ defaults on purchases of the oilseed weighed on prices. Corn and wheat ended lower after a choppy session, pressured by slowly improving […]

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

Apr. 11, 2014 at 3:52 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

Oil-by-rail traffic hurts farmers, travelers, U.S. officials told

Apr. 11, 2014 at 11:18 am CDT

Viterra to boost Vancouver port terminal throughput

Apr. 11, 2014 at 6:48 am CDT

By Staff

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

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hogs settled mostly lower on Thursday following a choppy day of trading. Lead-month April hogs, which will expire on April 14, drew support from its discount to CME’s hog index at 128.62 cents (all figures US$). Profit-taking stirred by nervousness about market-ready, or […]

By Theopolis Waters

Cargill to boost S. Manitoba grain handling capacity

Apr. 10, 2014 at 5:45 pm CDT

Cargill’s Canadian arm is set to start work within the next month on capacity expansions at its grain elevator in southern Manitoba’s Red River Valley. The company said Thursday it plans to triple storage capacity and nearly double its rail car spot at its farm service centre on the Canadian […]

By Staff

CWB building grain elevator east of Saskatoon

Apr. 10, 2014 at 4:38 pm CDT

The grain company formerly known as the Canadian Wheat Board has picked a site for a second high-throughput Prairie grain elevator, this time in central Saskatchewan. CWB announced Thursday it has started construction of a 42,000-tonne capacity steel facility on Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) track just southeast of Colonsay, about […]

By Staff

CBOT review: Corn underwhelms investors despite lower USDA projections

Apr. 9, 2014 at 8:37 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– Chicago Board of Trade corn contracts saw some choppy activity during the week ended Wednesday, but finished with only small advances as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s prediction, that corn stockpiles would be lower than expected, failed to impress traders. “I think we saw a lot of […]

By Dave Sims

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