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Hedge Funds Move Into Cattle As Demand Grows And Supplies Shrink

By Theopolis Waters October 27, 2011

Joe Ocrant, a 40-year veteran of the U.S. cattle trade, started his livestock-centred investment fund years ahead of the new wave of managed money that has flooded into livestock futures this year. With U.S. pork exports to China surging, most of the new money is going into hog futures, but Ocrant is going long on

Hogs, Livestock

CME Hogs Drop Seven Per Cent In August

September 8, 2011

CHICAGO/REUTERS U.S. hog futures on Aug. 31 finished down seven per cent for the month, livestock traders said. With the onset of cooler weather, hog weights have rebounded and put more hogs in hands of packers to pump more pork into the retail sector. In early August, the Midwest was in the grip of a

Hogs, Livestock

No Future For Pork Belly Futures

By Bob Burgdorfer July 21, 2011

Chicago’s iconic pork belly market has closed after 50 years of being the subject of jokes for movies and TV shows and satisfying Americans’ hunger for bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwiches. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange shut down the frozen pork belly futures market at the end of business on Friday, July 15. The closing had been expected. Trading

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Cattle Set 16-Month High On Strong Technicals

By Jerry Bieszk March 18, 2010

Cattle futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange set a new 16-month high March 9 in the active April contract on a mix of technical and fundamental factors. Cash beef prices are the highest in nearly 10 months due to less production and improving demand. Investors also are buying cattle futures amid concerns rain and melting

Cereals, News

Frustrated Chicago Wheat Traders Seen Testing MGE

By Christine Stebbins October 29, 2009

Frustrated wheat traders who say the Chicago Board of Trade Soft Red Winter wheat contract is no longer an effective hedging tool appear to be testing the waters in a new market – the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. Open interest in the MGE’s long-dormant, cash-settled Soft Red Winter Wheat Index futures has exploded over the last

Cereals, News

CBOT Says It Is Still The Global Benchmark

By K.t. Arasu April 16, 2009

Chicago Board of Trade, the world’s largest grain exchange, has no fear of its wheat contract being challenged as the global benchmark for prices by an upstart from Australia, a senior official told Reuters. Australia’s stock exchange operator, ASX Ltd., plans for its Hard wheat export futures contract to begin trading in May, opening up

News

Commodity traders grow weary of market swings

By Bob Burgdorfer December 18, 2008

“Everybody got run over by the bus going east. They got up only to be run over by the bus going west.” – CME TRADER GARY LARK From his desk alongside the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) trading floor, Jim Brooks is seeing more ill-tempered cattle and hog traders nowadays as they cope with fast-moving markets

Daily Network News

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U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

Tag Archives Chicago Mercantile Exchange

Hedge Funds Move Into Cattle As Demand Grows And Supplies Shrink

CME Hogs Drop Seven Per Cent In August

No Future For Pork Belly Futures

Cattle Set 16-Month High On Strong Technicals

Frustrated Chicago Wheat Traders Seen Testing MGE

CBOT Says It Is Still The Global Benchmark

Commodity traders grow weary of market swings

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