Insights and Stories on Live Cattle

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle end four-day win streak

Jan. 20, 2017 at 3:30 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures settled in negative territory on Friday for the first time in five days, led by sell stops and profit-taking, said traders. They said fund buying and futures’ discounts to this week’s cash prices later lifted contracts from session lows. February […]

U.S. livestock: Cash prices push CME live cattle higher

Jan. 19, 2017 at 4:22 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle up for third straight day

Jan. 18, 2017 at 6:43 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Cash prices boost live cattle to 10-month high

Jan. 17, 2017 at 4:55 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Live cattle rally on fund buying, cash optimism

Jan. 13, 2017 at 6:16 pm CST

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: Cattle ease on technical selling

Jan. 12, 2017 at 7:11 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle futures fell more than one per cent on Thursday, extending losses to the second straight session on a technical sell-off as wholesale beef prices also continued to lose ground, traders and analysts said. Lean hogs were mixed at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, with some […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: Profit-taking, beef quotes drop CME live cattle

Jan. 11, 2017 at 3:42 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures were pressured on Wednesday by profit-taking, partly in response to sharply lower wholesale beef values, said traders. February live cattle closed 0.4 cent/lb. lower at 119.125 cents (all figures US$). CME live cattle will return to its normal three-cent trading […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Cattle limit up on technical buying

Jan. 10, 2017 at 4:19 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures climbed to a nine-month high on Tuesday, extending gains from the previous session on chart-based and investment fund buying, traders and analysts said. Feeder cattle and lean hog futures also rose at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, with feeders reaching the highest levels […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: Cattle gain on bargain-buying

Jan. 9, 2017 at 5:16 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures gained about one per cent on Monday, rebounding from earlier losses on support from a round of bargain buying, traders and analysts said. Feeders fell to a 3-1/2-week low before reversing higher, while live cattle tested Friday’s multiweek […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures mostly firmer

Jan. 6, 2017 at 6:16 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Most Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts gained modestly on Friday after some investors sold February futures and bought deferred months prior to similar moves next week, said traders. Monday begins the first of five days in which funds that track the Standard + Poor’s Goldman […]

By Theopolis Waters