Insights and Stories on Wheat Futures

U.S. grains: Wheat hits six-week high on dry weather worries

Apr. 2, 2015 at 5:40 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures jumped to their highest level in six weeks on Thursday on worries that rains in the U.S. Plains next week will be insufficient to relieve intensifying drought conditions. Traders kept their eyes on weather forecasts after dryness in key parts of the Plains, […]

U.S. CFTC sues Kraft, Mondelez over alleged wheat price manipulation

Apr. 1, 2015 at 5:37 pm CDT

By Anjali Athavaley douwe-miedema

U.S. grains: Soy extends rally sparked by plantings report

Apr. 1, 2015 at 4:26 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. grains: Corn hit by one-two punch of plantings, stocks data

Mar. 31, 2015 at 4:35 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Wheat up four per cent on dry Plains conditions

Mar. 30, 2015 at 4:16 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Wheat rebounds ahead of USDA reports

Mar. 27, 2015 at 4:25 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat climbed as much as two per cent in a bargain-buying bounce on Friday, rebounding after three sessions of steep declines that dragged futures into technically oversold territory. Soybean and corn futures each were lower at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) with investors in […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. grains: Wheat down most in nearly two years on dollar rebound

Mar. 26, 2015 at 5:32 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. grain and soybean futures reversed early gains to turn lower on Thursday on pressure from a higher dollar, with wheat’s three-session decline of more than six per cent the biggest such slide in nearly two years. The U.S. dollar, which rose in a rebound from […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. grains: Wheat drops on forecast, corn hits three-week high

Mar. 25, 2015 at 4:25 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. wheat fell for the third straight session on Wednesday, pressured by technical selling and forecasts for rains needed in the parched southern U.S. Plains growing region. But prices trimmed their losses while corn edged higher and soybeans lower in a choppy session at the Chicago […]

By Michael Hirtzer

More room off lows seen for U.S. wheat futures

Mar. 24, 2015 at 5:48 pm CDT

CNS Canada –– U.S. wheat futures have trended higher over the past few weeks and still have some more room to the upside, as weather concerns for the country’s winter wheat crop and the need to bring acres to spring wheat should provide some support, according to an analyst. Given […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Wheat tumbles after rally as rain monitored

Mar. 24, 2015 at 3:16 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat tumbled as much as two per cent on Tuesday as investors took profits after the previous session’s five-week high and extended weather outlooks showed the possibility of crop-friendly rains in the U.S. and Russia. Soybean futures also were lower at the Chicago Board of […]

By Michael Hirtzer