Insights and Stories on Live Cattle

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle buckle under technical pressure

Jul. 18, 2017 at 5:16 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed lower on Tuesday, hit by profit-taking and technical selling, said traders and analysts. They said some funds sold August futures and simultaneously bought the October contract. Positioning in advance of the U.S. Department of Agriculture monthly Cattle on Feed […]

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs draw support from cash price discounts

Jul. 17, 2017 at 5:52 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Short covering lifts CME live cattle

Jul. 14, 2017 at 5:44 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Beef, profit-taking weaken CME live cattle

Jul. 13, 2017 at 5:50 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle limit up on cash prices

Jul. 12, 2017 at 5:28 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Fund buying rallies cattle futures

Jul. 11, 2017 at 7:32 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts on Tuesday reversed Monday’s losses, supported by short-covering and technical buying, said traders. Funds that follow the Standard + Poor’s Goldman Sachs Commodity Index periodically sold, or “rolled,” August futures and simultaneously bought October on the second of five days […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Cash price unease pressures CME live cattle

Jul. 10, 2017 at 7:36 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed lower on Monday, weakened by sell stops and uncertainty regarding cash prices later this week, traders said. Funds that track the Standard + Poor’s Goldman Sachs Commodity Index at times sold, or “rolled,” August futures and simultaneously bought October […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Cattle rise in rebound on technical buying, cash trades

Jul. 6, 2017 at 7:49 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures gained more than one per cent on Thursday, rebounding from a two-month low on chart-based technical buying and slightly firmer trades in cash cattle markets, traders said. Most-active CME August live cattle knocked out Wednesday’s session low early in Thursday’s session but […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: Cattle slump to two-month low

Jul. 5, 2017 at 5:35 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures extended losses to a more than two-month low on Wednesday as investors liquidated long positions amid declining wholesale beef prices and expectations for weaker cash cattle markets, traders and analysts said. Higher corn futures also boosted feed costs for fattening cattle, weighing […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: Hogs rise on pork gains

Jul. 3, 2017 at 4:21 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures climbed to fresh life-of-contract highs on Monday, gaining on bear-spreading as wholesale pork prices reached the highest levels in more than two years. Dealers continued to buy back Chicago Mercantile Exchange July hog contracts and roll positions into deferred months such as […]

By Michael Hirtzer