Insights and Stories on Futures

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs limit-up on bargain buying

May. 30, 2023 at 7:45 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures surged their daily limit on Tuesday, rebounding from Friday’s life-of-contract lows on a round of bargain-buying and short-covering toward the end of the month, and as feed grain futures fell sharply, traders said. “It really got grossly overdone to the bottom […]

Klassen: Canadian feeder market rationing demand

May. 30, 2023 at 2:20 pm CDT

By Jerry Klassen

U.S. grains: Corn hits one-month high on weather worries

May. 26, 2023 at 6:46 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME hogs down 10 per cent on week

May. 26, 2023 at 6:31 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME hogs sink to contract lows

May. 25, 2023 at 6:38 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Weak export demand, rising U.S. dollar pressure soy, corn

May. 25, 2023 at 6:21 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soybean and grain futures eased on Thursday as a strong U.S. dollar added to concerns about lacklustre export demand, traders said. The dollar rose for a fourth straight session to a two-month high, making U.S. commodities look less attractive to importers. Favourable […]

By Tom Polansek

ICE weekly outlook: Don’t bank on $700 canola, analyst suggests

May. 25, 2023 at 12:58 am CDT

MarketsFarm — New-crop canola prices on ICE Futures seemed to be destined to remain well below $700 per tonne, according to analyst Errol Anderson of ProMarket Communications in Calgary. “The market tends to be back where it came from,” Anderson said, stressing that chances of canola pushing higher requires fresh […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

CBOT weekly outlook: Chicago soy, corn find chart support

May. 24, 2023 at 9:32 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Soybean and corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade were testing lows in mid-May but appeared to have found some support for the time being. “We’re getting a little technical bounce off these lows,” said John Weyer, director of commercial hedging with Walsh Trading in Chicago. He […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Profit-taking pressures wheat futures

May. 24, 2023 at 7:34 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell on Wednesday on a round of profit-taking as traders said the market lacked fundamental inputs to drive prices higher a day after a rally driven by renewed concerns over a Black Sea deal. Corn futures were firm for the second day in […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: Hog futures weak on bearish supplies

May. 24, 2023 at 7:22 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures fell for the fourth day in a row on Wednesday, with a large supply base pressuring the market. Cattle contracts were firm, rising on a round of technical buying. After the close, the U.S. Agriculture Department said frozen U.S. beef stocks […]

By Mark Weinraub