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DTN Closing Grain Comments Soybeans Close Week Strong Fri Feb 3, 2012 02:16 PM CST
Soybeans finished with solid gains wiping out the week's losses. This helped pull corn higher in the last minutes of trade. Wheat tried to rally at the close but ended modestly lower on light technical selling.
DTN Closing Livestock Comments Live Cattle Futures Close Weak With Triple-Digit Losses Fri Feb 3, 2012 04:32 PM CST
The cattle complex closed sharply lower, pressured by cash weakness, poor processing margins, and technical selling. Lean hog futures finished mixed with nearbys losing ground to deferreds.
Newsom on the Market $3 Corn? Fri Feb 3, 2012 12:56 PM CST
As we make our way through the offseason in the grain markets -- an offseason that comes to an end on March 31 -- the long-term price forecasts for corn are becoming more dramatic.
Market Matters Blog
DTN's national average cash prices for corn and beans rose; cash wheat fell.
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CME's efforts to bolster confidence received a cool reception in farm country. Will Wall Street feel warmer toward them?
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DTN's national average cash prices were higher for all five grains.
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Technically Speaking
Action late last week has the March soybean contract changing direction again.
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With another month coming to a close it is time for another series of long-term monthly charts. First up is the continuous commodity index.
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Feeder Frenzy 1/28 7:50AM
Sometimes markets move straight up. Such is the case in feeder cattle.
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Fundamentally Speaking
This piece looks at the 1,3 and 5 year correlation coefficients between a number of commodities and the U.S. Dollar Index.
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This piece looks at the year to year total change in combined exports for the three major grains: corn, wheat, and soybeans.
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Here we look at the soybean spread going back to 1992 with a 10 and 20 year seasonal and the 2012 values.
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Contract Month Last Chg High Low
ELEC. CORN[10] Mar-12 644'4s 1'4 646'4 638'0
Dec-12 581'4s 2'4 581'6 573'6
ELEC. SOYBEANS[10] Mar-12 1232'4s 15'4 1236'4 1214'0
Nov-12 1237'2s 13'4 1239'0 1220'0
ELEC. WHEAT[10] Mar-12 660'6s -2'0 671'0 653'2
Dec-12 723'2s -1'4 730'4 716'6
ELEC. HRW WHEAT[10] Mar-12 712'6s -5'0 724'0 707'4
Dec-12 758'6s -3'2 765'6 753'2
ELEC. HRS WHEAT[10] Mar-12 838'4s 2'4 844'2 829'2
Dec-12 794'2s 1'6 797'4 784'4
LIVE CATTLE[10] Feb-12 123.625s -1.525 125.325 123.550
Apr-12 127.400s -1.500 129.150 127.350
FEEDER CATTLE[10] Mar-12 154.450s -0.925 155.750 154.200
Apr-12 157.025s -0.900 158.300 156.950
MILK CLASS III[10] Feb-12 16.15s 0.00 16.01 16.01
Apr-12 15.94s 0.05 15.97 15.97
ELEC. COTTON # 2[10] Mar-12 96.34s 2.13 97.86 94.12
May-12 97.48s 1.99 98.56 95.51
Fri, Feb 3, 2012 7:54 PM CST    *Quotes are in market time.
Delay is indicated in brackets.
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Reporter's Notebook
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Closing Market Comments
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Market Weather Outlook
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From The Field
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