Insights and Stories on China

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures touch one-week highs

Oct. 4, 2021 at 4:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures hit one-week highs on Monday on technical buying and short covering, while lean hog futures tumbled, traders said. The gains in cattle came after the market sank to a four-month low on Friday. “This market is technically very oversold,” said […]

Canada’s drought forces canola importers to turn elsewhere

Oct. 4, 2021 at 3:25 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

U.S. puts up funds to prevent African swine fever

Sep. 29, 2021 at 4:48 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Argentina to restart beef exports to China after caps lifted

Sep. 29, 2021 at 1:43 am CDT

By Maximilian Heath Walter Bianchi

U.S. grains: Corn futures up on firm cash markets

Sep. 27, 2021 at 7:20 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Xi raised Huawei case in recent call with Biden, White House says

Sep. 27, 2021 at 4:21 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — The White House on Monday said a near-simultaneous release of a top Huawei executive and two Canadians detained shortly after her arrest was not a prisoner swap, but said the moves came up in a call between the Chinese and U.S. presidents weeks before. On Friday, […]

By alexandra-alper

‘Two Michaels’ have left China, Trudeau says

Sep. 24, 2021 at 8:13 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Two Canadian citizens who were detained by Beijing for more than 1,000 days have left Chinese airspace and will arrive back in Canada early on Saturday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters Friday. Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were picked up in December 2018, shortly after […]

By Reuters

Dreyfus, others shut soy crushers in China on power curbs

Sep. 24, 2021 at 7:15 pm CDT

Beijing | Reuters — Soymeal prices in China, the world’s top consumer of the animal feed ingredient, are rising after at least 20 soybean crushing plants shuttered to comply with curbs on industrial power consumption, industry participants said on Friday. Five crushing plants in the northern city of Tianjin closed […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat finds two-week high on strong global demand

Sep. 24, 2021 at 6:28 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures firmed on Friday, ending near a two-week high as the market assessed mixed global production prospects and brisk import demand. Corn eased as supply pressure from the ongoing U.S. harvest countered background support from tight supplies, while soybeans inched higher after trading both […]

By Christopher Walljasper

Huawei executive, U.S. reach deal to dismiss charges

Sep. 24, 2021 at 10:43 am CDT

Updated, Sept. 24 — Reuters — Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou has reached an agreement with U.S. prosecutors to end the bank fraud case against her, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday, a move that should allow her to leave Canada and relieve a point of tension between China and […]

By Karen Freifeld Kenneth Li