Insights and Stories on Pork

U.S. livestock: Hogs jump on hopes of pork exports to China

Jan. 2, 2019 at 6:32 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. lean hog futures jumped to a nearly two-week high on Wednesday on speculation that exports of U.S. pork to China will rise in the coming months, traders and analysts said. Representatives from the U.S. and China were negotiating to end the trade war between the […]

U.S. livestock: Cattle climb on technical buying, demand optimism

Dec. 11, 2018 at 6:16 pm CST

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: Live cattle, lean hogs mostly lower

Dec. 10, 2018 at 6:11 pm CST

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs rebound

Dec. 7, 2018 at 5:10 pm CST

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: Trade fears drag down CME live cattle, hogs

Jun. 14, 2018 at 7:07 pm CDT

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME hogs snap back on higher cash, wholesale pork prices

Jun. 12, 2018 at 6:19 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures on Tuesday recovered from Monday’s selloff, helped by higher wholesale pork values and surging market-ready, or cash, hog prices, traders said. Fund buying and bargain hunting enhanced futures advances, they said. June hogs, which will expire on Thursday, closed up 0.375 […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat climbs on global weather woes

Jun. 6, 2018 at 4:42 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures climbed nearly two per cent on Wednesday on a mix of technical buying and worries about persistent dry weather in major exporting countries including Russia and Australia. Corn and soybeans sagged as weather in the U.S. crop belt remained mostly favourable. Chicago Board […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Strong cash prices reverse CME hogs’ losses

Jun. 6, 2018 at 4:19 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs on Wednesday closed up sharply, spurred by short-covering and escalating prices for slaughter-ready, or cash, hogs that reversed Tuesday’s market losses, said traders. On Tuesday, some CME hog contracts day fell more than two per cent after Mexico imposed tariffs on […]

By Reuters

Mexico hits back on U.S. steel, slaps tariffs on pork, bourbon

Jun. 5, 2018 at 8:10 pm CDT

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico responded in kind to U.S. President Donald Trump’s metals tariffs by imposing its own duties on U.S. steel on Tuesday, while also targeting politically sensitive agricultural products from pork to bourbon. Mexico’s peso tumbled to its weakest level since February 2017, leading losses among […]

By Reuters

Pork supply issues hit Maple Leaf’s Q1 ledger

May. 2, 2018 at 1:42 pm CDT

Reuters — Meat packer Maple Leaf Foods posted a smaller-than-expected quarterly profit as lower prices and a temporary interruption in supplies hurt sales of its pork products, sending its shares to their lowest in nearly two years. The company, one of Canada’s biggest pork processors, said that processed fresh pork […]

By Nishara Karuvalli Pathikkal