Insights and Stories on China

CBOT weekly outlook: Bear market aches for bull news

Apr. 17, 2019 at 6:50 pm CDT

MarketsFarm –– The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is currently a bear-market, according to broker Scott Capinegro of Barrington Commodity Brokers. “It’s like the markets are saying ‘Show me something, we’ll take anything,’ but the bears are winning,” he said, noting there has been almost no news to drive the […]

U.S. grains: Wheat futures edge higher in turnaround from losses

Apr. 17, 2019 at 5:35 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Deferred CME hog futures set contract highs

Apr. 17, 2019 at 5:24 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Views differ on crop exports to China other than canola

Apr. 16, 2019 at 7:32 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Wheat futures tumble on increasing global supply estimates

Apr. 16, 2019 at 6:49 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Deferred CME hogs extend gains on China virus outbreak

Apr. 16, 2019 at 6:44 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures closed mixed on Tuesday as front-month contracts stumbled in a setback from recent gains, while deferred contracts rose on expectations for increased demand from China due to an outbreak of a fatal hog disease. Gains in the market have been fueled by worries […]

By Tom Polansek

China eyes U.S. poultry, pork imports in trade talks

Apr. 16, 2019 at 5:18 pm CDT

Reuters — China would likely lift a ban on U.S. poultry as part of a trade deal and may buy more pork to meet a growing supply deficit, but it is not willing to allow a prohibited growth drug used in roughly half the U.S. hog herd, two sources with […]

By Chris Prentice Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME hogs push higher as herds in China suffer from virus

Apr. 15, 2019 at 6:30 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures closed mostly higher on Monday on increasing expectations that China will need to import more pork to compensate for hogs killed in an outbreak of an incurable swine disease. The front-month contract, which is thinly traded, set its highest price in about 21 […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs up third straight session

Apr. 12, 2019 at 6:56 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures closed higher on Friday for a third straight session on expectations that an outbreak of African swine fever in China’s hog herd would prompt the Asian country to import more pork, traders said. Traders were still digesting Thursday’s export […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat firm in late rally, end week lower

Apr. 12, 2019 at 6:50 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and wheat futures edged higher on Friday, lifted by a late round of short-covering and worries about planting delays following a blizzard this week, traders said. Soybean futures closed flat in dull trade. Chicago Board of Trade May corn settled up one cent at […]

By Julie Ingwersen