Insights and Stories on Closing Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle ease on technical selling

Jan. 12, 2017 at 7:11 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle futures fell more than one per cent on Thursday, extending losses to the second straight session on a technical sell-off as wholesale beef prices also continued to lose ground, traders and analysts said. Lean hogs were mixed at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, with some […]

U.S. grains: Wheat hits one-week low on Plains forecasts

Jan. 11, 2017 at 3:59 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Profit-taking, beef quotes drop CME live cattle

Jan. 11, 2017 at 3:42 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Cattle limit up on technical buying

Jan. 10, 2017 at 4:19 pm CST

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn weak as traders await USDA report

Jan. 10, 2017 at 3:13 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: Cattle gain on bargain-buying

Jan. 9, 2017 at 5:16 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures gained about one per cent on Monday, rebounding from earlier losses on support from a round of bargain buying, traders and analysts said. Feeders fell to a 3-1/2-week low before reversing higher, while live cattle tested Friday’s multiweek […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn, wheat rise

Jan. 9, 2017 at 5:05 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures firmed on Monday, settling up one per cent on some concerns about rain in parts of Argentina curtailing crop production from the world’s third largest exporter of the oilseed, traders said. Wheat futures also closed higher, with prices firming to their highest since […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures mostly firmer

Jan. 6, 2017 at 6:16 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Most Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts gained modestly on Friday after some investors sold February futures and bought deferred months prior to similar moves next week, said traders. Monday begins the first of five days in which funds that track the Standard + Poor’s Goldman […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Exports pressure corn, soybeans

Jan. 6, 2017 at 2:52 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybean futures fell on Friday on signs of weakening demand for U.S. exports as the South American harvest nears, traders said. Wheat futures also dropped, pressured by a round of profit-taking after K.C. hard red winter wheat hit a 4-1/2-month […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle turn lower

Jan. 5, 2017 at 5:11 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Thursday gave back some of Wednesday’s gains, pressured by profit-taking and technical selling, said traders. They said early-session futures buying subsided after investors digested this week’s cash prices. February live cattle closed 0.6 cent/lb. lower at 115.075 cents (all […]

By Theopolis Waters