Insights and Stories on Cattle Futures

U.S. livestock: Improved cash prices lift CME live cattle

Jul. 21, 2017 at 5:28 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures finished firmer on Friday, led by higher cash prices than earlier this week, traders said. Technical buying and futures’ discounts to cash returns provided more market support. Investors were awaiting the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s monthly Cattle on Feed report […]

U.S. livestock: Live cattle slump on profit-taking, cash caution

Jul. 20, 2017 at 3:31 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle jump

Jul. 19, 2017 at 6:18 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle buckle under technical pressure

Jul. 18, 2017 at 5:16 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

Klassen: Renewed optimism supports feeder market

Jul. 18, 2017 at 3:21 pm CDT

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs draw support from cash price discounts

Jul. 17, 2017 at 5:52 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures finished higher on Monday, helped by their discounts to cash prices and technical buying, traders said. Thinly-traded July, which expired at noon CT, settled down 0.2 cent/lb. at 92.4 cents and almost par with CME’s hog index for July 13 […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Short covering lifts CME live cattle

Jul. 14, 2017 at 5:44 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts closed higher on Friday, aided by short covering and futures’ discounts to this week’s better-than-expected cash prices, said traders. CME livestock market funds that follow the Standard + Poor’s Goldman Sachs Commodity Index sold, or “rolled,” August futures and simultaneously […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Beef, profit-taking weaken CME live cattle

Jul. 13, 2017 at 5:50 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts on Thursday eased from Wednesday’s three-cent per pound limit-up settlement, pressured by profit-taking and seasonally struggling wholesale beef values, said traders. They said futures’ discounts to preliminary cash prices limited market losses. CME livestock market funds that track the Standard […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle limit up on cash prices

Jul. 12, 2017 at 5:28 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts on Wednesday settled up the three cents per pound daily price limit, driven by fund buying and futures’ discounts to stronger-than-expected cash prices, said traders. Funds that follow the Standard + Poor’s Goldman Sachs Commodity Index at times sold, or […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Fund buying rallies cattle futures

Jul. 11, 2017 at 7:32 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts on Tuesday reversed Monday’s losses, supported by short-covering and technical buying, said traders. Funds that follow the Standard + Poor’s Goldman Sachs Commodity Index periodically sold, or “rolled,” August futures and simultaneously bought October on the second of five days […]

By Theopolis Waters