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U.S. livestock: CME live cattle hit two-year low on beef, cash prices

Sep. 30, 2015 at 6:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Wednesday drifted to a two-year low, with October down the 4.5-cent daily price limit, as wholesale beef values and preliminary cash prices continued to sag, traders said. Spot-October settled at 124.675 cents/lb. (all figures US$). December ended 3.225 cents […]

U.S. grains: Corn, soy gain as shorts hunt for cover

Sep. 29, 2015 at 5:51 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle, feeder cattle slump limit down

Sep. 29, 2015 at 5:44 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Prices slide on China worries, harvest progress

Sep. 28, 2015 at 4:13 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle mostly firm after choppy day

Sep. 28, 2015 at 4:06 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Soy, corn, wheat rally to close week

Sep. 25, 2015 at 5:45 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Board of Trade soybeans rallied 2.4 per cent to their highest in more than a week on Friday, supported by signs of a pick-up in export demand for U.S. supplies, traders said. U.S. wheat futures rose 2.2 per cent to their highest since Aug. 14. […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: Bargain hunters send CME live cattle, feeders limit up

Sep. 25, 2015 at 5:41 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Friday closed up their three-cents-per-pound daily price limit, ignited by active short-covering and bargain hunting after contracts recently tumbled to two-year lows, traders said. Spot-October and December finished at 133.7 and 137 cents/lb., respectively (all figures US$). Live cattle’s […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat slides from one-month high

Sep. 24, 2015 at 4:44 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell two per cent from a one-month top on Thursday on a round of profit taking, with plentiful global supplies allaying concerns about adverse crop weather in Australia and the Black Sea region, traders said. Corn futures edged lower, pressured by the expanding […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle again sink to two-year bottom

Sep. 24, 2015 at 4:33 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures dropped to a two-year low for a second consecutive session on Thursday, weighed on by seasonally slack beef demand, traders said. But, they said, late-session bargain hunting and short-covering lifted CME live cattle from morning lows. Spot-October closed 2.525 cents/lb. […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Wheat nears one-month high on global weather worries

Sep. 23, 2015 at 5:41 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures neared a one-month high on Wednesday on short-covering and poor weather in Australia and the Black Sea region that worried traders who have recently been focused on large global supplies. Corn and soybean futures ended little changed. Propelling wheat prices higher was dry […]

By Tom Polansek