Insights and Stories on Futures

U.S. livestock: Live cattle sag as wholesale beef prices retreat

Jun. 2, 2020 at 6:46 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures fell on Tuesday, with the August contract hitting its lowest in nearly a month as the U.S. slaughter pace picked up, sending more beef into retail channels, traders said. Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) June live cattle settled down three cents at 95.3 […]

U.S. grains: Soybeans up on China sales hopes

Jun. 2, 2020 at 5:08 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Soybeans end fractionally lower amid China trade woes

Jun. 1, 2020 at 4:16 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

Fund traders add to short positions in canola, corn

Jun. 1, 2020 at 3:36 am CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans slide on China tensions

May. 29, 2020 at 7:56 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end lower ahead of weekend

May. 29, 2020 at 7:50 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures retreated on Friday in a profit-taking and technical selling setback ahead of the weekend amid weakening beef prices and concerns about lower-than-normal summer demand as much of the economy remains partially closed. Lean hog futures clawed back earlier losses to end mostly […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs lower on China tensions

May. 28, 2020 at 5:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures dropped by as much as the daily trading limit on Thursday on worries that rising tensions between Washington and Beijing could limit U.S. pork purchases by China, the world’s largest pork consumer. Sino-U.S. relations have worsened as the White House has threatened […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat up as weather, currency spark short-covering

May. 28, 2020 at 3:51 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures jumped on Thursday to a five-week high as a weaker dollar, forecasts for hotter, drier weather in the Midwest corn belt and a further rebound in ethanol production triggered bargain buying and short-covering by managed funds. Wheat futures also rallied on expanding dryness […]

By Karl Plume

ICE weekly outlook: Extradition ruling not the only anchor on canola

May. 27, 2020 at 8:23 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Although ICE July canola finished $1.30 per tonne lower Wednesday, at $463.50, following a ruling on the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, Wayne Palmer said there’s much more to the decline in the price. While Palmer, a trader with Exceed Grain in Winnipeg, called the ruling “a […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

CBOT weekly outlook: Crop commodities rangebound

May. 27, 2020 at 8:08 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Favourable growing conditions across most of the U.S. — and a good start to the growing season — have kept commodity prices on the Chicago Board of Trade locked in a sideways range. In the crop progress report released Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm