Insights and Stories on Closing Markets

U.S. grains: Prices rise on short-covering, slow loadings in Brazil

Feb. 16, 2016 at 5:12 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. soybean futures climbed to a 1-1/2-week high on Tuesday while wheat and corn each gained about one per cent, boosted by investor short-covering and a backlog of export loadings at Brazilian ports. Prices rose as trade resumed following a three-day weekend due to Monday’s U.S. […]

U.S. livestock: Fund buying boosts CME live cattle limit-up

Feb. 16, 2016 at 3:41 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle fade before holiday

Feb. 12, 2016 at 5:27 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Exports spark gains in soybeans

Feb. 11, 2016 at 3:36 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle tumble with cash prices

Feb. 11, 2016 at 3:31 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Wheat rises on bargain buying

Feb. 10, 2016 at 3:52 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures firmed Wednesday, edging higher on a round of bargain buying and short-covering a day after prices hit their lowest in nearly six years, traders said. Corn and soybean futures were close to unchanged for most of the day but closed […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle gain, but off session highs

Feb. 10, 2016 at 3:42 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed higher on Wednesday, helped by their discounts to preliminary prices for market-ready, or cash, cattle, traders said. But they said the possibility that packers might pay less for remaining supplies pulled CME live cattle contracts from morning tops. Futures […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Wheat drops to lowest since 2010 on record supply estimate

Feb. 9, 2016 at 9:27 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. wheat futures dropped to their lowest level since 2010 after the U.S. government on Thursday said year-end global supplies would be the biggest in history. Prices crumbled as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s forecasts for record-large world wheat production and ending stocks fuelled fears about […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle ease ahead of cash prices

Feb. 9, 2016 at 9:07 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures ended lower on Tuesday after traders sold the February contract and bought deferred months while awaiting cash prices later this week, traders said. On Tuesday, packers in Texas and Kansas bid $132/cwt for market-ready, or cash, cattle against sellers who […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Cattle limit down on equities downturn

Feb. 8, 2016 at 4:33 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle futures tumbled more than two per cent on Monday, falling in sympathy with steep downturns in equities markets and following disappointing trades last week in cash cattle. Front-month live and feeder plummeted by their respective daily price limits of three and 4.5 cents/lb., with […]

By Michael Hirtzer