Insights and Stories on Soybean Futures

U.S. grains: Wheat touches two-month high on harvest bets

Jun. 9, 2015 at 4:59 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures jumped as much as one per cent on Tuesday, extending gains from the previous session to a two-month high as investors bet that heavy rains would hit yields of the winter wheat crop in the southern U.S. Plains. Soybeans also rose, reaching a […]

U.S. grains: Wheat adds two per cent gain to weather-related rally

Jun. 8, 2015 at 5:07 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen Rod Nickel

U.S. grains: Profit-taking weighs on soybeans, corn, wheat

Jun. 5, 2015 at 4:04 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Weather concerns prompt short-covering in wheat

Jun. 4, 2015 at 3:39 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybeans to break below US$9 before summer half over

Jun. 3, 2015 at 6:27 pm CDT

By Terryn Shiells

U.S. grains: Wheat, soybeans sag after rally

Jun. 3, 2015 at 4:41 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell on Wednesday, shrugging off weakness in the dollar as investors locked in profits following two days of sharp gains, traders said. Soybean futures ended lower, too, pressured by commercial hedging after farmers booked sales on the cash market following a rally that […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Lower greenback sparks rally in wheat, corn, soy

Jun. 2, 2015 at 5:14 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn, soybean and wheat futures rallied on Tuesday, supported by a steep decline in the U.S. dollar that made all three commodities more attractive to investors looking for a hedge against inflation, traders said. Wheat notched the biggest gain, with the front-month Chicago Board of […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Short-covering sparks rally in wheat

Jun. 1, 2015 at 3:58 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. wheat futures rallied 3.4 per cent on Monday, bouncing off of their lowest in nearly three weeks, on a round of short-covering, traders said. “Frankly this market was struggling to go down,” Arlan Suderman, senior market analyst at Water Street Solutions, said. “When you run […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Corn drops, soybeans rise on new biofuel targets

May. 29, 2015 at 4:49 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn futures fell on Friday and posted a second straight weekly decline after the U.S. government lowered its targets for ethanol blending and as corn export demand slumped for the crop harvested this autumn. Soybeans rose about one per cent, led by sharply higher soybean […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds on short-covering, bullish ethanol data

May. 28, 2015 at 2:44 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures on Thursday rebounded from a seven-month low after three days of declines in a short-covering bounce and following a government report showing higher ethanol output and lower stocks of the corn-based biofuel. Wheat futures were mixed as a weaker dollar and concerns about […]

By Karl Plume