Insights and Stories on Wheat Futures

U.S. grains: Soybeans slide on easing concerns about Brazil truck strike

Feb. 25, 2015 at 4:39 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soybeans retreated on Wednesday from a six-week high earlier this week, on prospects for an imminent end to the Brazilian truck drivers’ strike which had threatened exports just as the country’s massive soybean crop was entering world markets. CBOT wheat also fell […]

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise to six-week high on Brazil, weather woes

Feb. 24, 2015 at 3:36 pm CST

By Christine Stebbins

Prairie CWRS wheat bids drop with U.S. futures

Feb. 23, 2015 at 7:21 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat slide to near three-week lows as dollar firms

Feb. 23, 2015 at 4:52 pm CST

By Christine Stebbins

‘Extreme’ volatility expected in wheat markets this spring

Feb. 23, 2015 at 4:43 pm CST

By Terryn Shiells

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn, soybeans close week lower

Feb. 20, 2015 at 4:07 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures plunged 3.3 per cent on Friday, their biggest decline in nearly two months, on more signs of poor export prospects for U.S. supplies, traders said. Corn and soybean futures also fell, weighed down by a round of end-of-week profit-taking following solid gains on […]

U.S. grains: Soybeans set five-week high on predicted drop in plantings

Feb. 19, 2015 at 4:50 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures jumped to a five-week high on Thursday after the U.S. Agriculture Department projected farmers will plant fewer acres than traders expected in response to falling prices. Corn futures also advanced, while wheat finished flat to lower. USDA, in data released at its annual […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Wheat tumbles after Egypt cancels U.S. tender

Feb. 18, 2015 at 7:24 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. wheat tumbled as much as two per cent on Wednesday, with benchmark Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) futures falling the most in a week after top global wheat importer Egypt cancelled a tender seeking supplies from the U.S. Overbought technical conditions and profit-taking also pressured […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. grains: Soy hits one-month high on soymeal gains, NOPA data

Feb. 17, 2015 at 3:14 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybeans climbed to a one-month peak on Tuesday, lifted by a three per cent spike in soymeal futures and data showing near-record domestic crushings of the beans in January, traders said. Wheat futures were mixed, with some contracts turning lower after earlier hitting three-week highs […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn, wheat rally to end week

Feb. 13, 2015 at 2:53 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. soybean futures rose for the third consecutive day on Friday as demand for U.S. stocks of the oilseed remained strong while overseas buyers waited for supplies from the South American harvest to hit the market, traders said. Wheat futures jumped on a round of short […]

By Mark Weinraub