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U.S. Senate passes CUSMA trade deal

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 16, 2020

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a revamp of the 26-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement that includes tougher rules on labour and automotive content but leaves US$1.2 trillion in annual U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade flows largely unchanged. The legislation for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (CUSMA) passed on an 89-10 bipartisan vote, sending the

Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: 2019 ends on high note

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm January 8, 2020

MarketsFarm — Despite a number of tough challenges in 2019, one broker at the Chicago Board of Trade said the year ended on a high note. “For what we went through with China this whole year, this trade war, you had corn, wheat and soybeans close higher for the year on Dec. 31,” said Scott

CME February 2020 live cattle with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle rally on tightening supplies, strong cash market

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume January 6, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures jumped by as much as two per cent on Monday and feeder cattle futures rose by up to three per cent, propelled by strong cash market prices and tightening supplies of animals, analysts said. A $2 jump in cash cattle prices at southern Plains feedlot markets late

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock

Amended CUSMA pact includes anti-COOL clause

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News January 4, 2020

The new Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), a free trade deal set to replace NAFTA, includes language meant to block any future bids at a trade-disrupting country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law. The new clause would, in theory, checkmate a move made last summer by some Democrat members of the U.S. House of Representatives to have a new North

Markets

U.S. House passes CUSMA

By GFM Network News, Reuters December 19, 2019

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday backed a new trade agreement with neighbouring Mexico and Canada in a 385-41 bipartisan vote, sending the NAFTA replacement measure to the Senate for consideration early in 2020. Democrats, who control the House, approved the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (CUSMA) more than a year after

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Dec. 11, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Blair Gable)

Markets

Canada could be last to ratify CUSMA deal, Trudeau says

By GFM Network News, Reuters December 17, 2019

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada could be the last of the three North American countries to ratify a new trade deal, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday, indicating that his plan to match the U.S. timetable was set to fail. Trudeau’s Liberal government said from the start it wanted to work in tandem with

MGEX March 2020 spring wheat with Bollinger (20,2) bands. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

Confluence of bullish news sends wheat futures higher

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin December 16, 2019

MarketsFarm — A number of factors have come together to underpin North American wheat prices, with more room to the upside after a rally in all three U.S. futures markets to start the week, according to an analyst. Chicago, Kansas City and Minneapolis wheat futures all started the week with double-digit gains. The Chicago and

File photo of Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet in Montreal on Oct. 22, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Andrej Ivanov)

Markets

Opposition MPs could delay CUSMA deal’s ratification

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News December 11, 2019

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s two main opposition parties on Wednesday suggested they could move to delay ratification of a new continental trade pact, accusing the Liberal government of botching revisions to the treaty. Such a move would embarrass Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has vowed that Parliament will quickly approve the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (CUSMA).

CBOT March 2020 corn with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soy, corn firm on trade deal hopes

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume December 10, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures firmed on Tuesday, rising for a sixth consecutive session on hopes that the United States and China will continue to progress toward an interim trade deal. Corn futures also edged higher on an improved trade outlook as Canada, Mexico and the United States approved changes to a preliminary

Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer attend a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Mexico City on Dec. 10, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Henry Romero)

Markets

Canada, U.S., Mexico sign agreement, again, to replace NAFTA

By GFM Network News, Sharay Angulo December 10, 2019

Washington/Mexico City | Reuters — Top officials from Canada, Mexico and the United States signed a fresh overhaul of a quarter-century-old trade pact on Tuesday that aims to improve enforcement of worker rights and hold down prices for biologic drugs by eliminating a patent provision. The signing ceremony in Mexico City launched what may be

Daily Network News

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U.S. Senate passes CUSMA trade deal

CBOT weekly outlook: 2019 ends on high note

U.S. livestock: Cattle rally on tightening supplies, strong cash market

Amended CUSMA pact includes anti-COOL clause

U.S. House passes CUSMA

Canada could be last to ratify CUSMA deal, Trudeau says

Confluence of bullish news sends wheat futures higher

Opposition MPs could delay CUSMA deal’s ratification

U.S. grains: Soy, corn firm on trade deal hopes

Canada, U.S., Mexico sign agreement, again, to replace NAFTA

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