Insights and Stories on ICE Futures Canada

Jan. 13, 2016 at 5:37 pm CST

CNS Canada –– ICE Futures Canada canola contracts posted small losses during the week ended Wednesday, but remained rangebound overall. That sideways activity is expected to continue over the next month or so, as large supplies and increased farmer selling, on the one side, is countered by solid end-user demand […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Dec. 23, 2015 at 6:40 pm CST

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts broke above major resistance levels this week, hitting levels not seen since August. However, as they say, what comes up must come down — and prices were well off of those highs by Tuesday’s close, bringing the market back within its long-standing […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Dec. 9, 2015 at 4:05 pm CST

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts posted modest losses for the week ended Wednesday, with the January contract falling slightly below the key technical benchmark of $470 per tonne. Still, at least one analyst said he thinks canola is well positioned to climb higher. A bearish Statistics Canada […]

By Dave Sims

Dec. 3, 2015 at 4:15 pm CST

CNS Canada –– Canola crush margins have improved considerably over the past few weeks, hitting levels not seen in over six months, as vegetable oil prices rose and the Canadian dollar dropped. Crush margins provide an indication of the profitability of the product values relative to the seed cost when […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Dec. 2, 2015 at 6:02 pm CST

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts moved higher during the week ended Wednesday, but further gains may be hard to come by without more support from the currency markets. “We’ve been held up here by the weaker Canadian dollar,” said Jerry Klassen, manager of the Canadian office for […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin