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ICE Canada reverts to 1:15 close

March 25, 2013

ICE Futures Canada’s experiment with a later close has proved short lived, with the market reverting back to the traditional 1:15 p.m. CT close beginning April 8, 2013, the exchange announced in a notice to participants March 18. The canola, wheat, durum, and barley futures and options contracts on the Winnipeg-based market have been closing

Crops, Grain Markets, Livestock

Hedge funds get bullish on corn and natural gas

By Barani Krishnan March 25, 2013

Hedge funds and other big speculators raised their bullish bets on U.S. commodities for the first time in five weeks, piling mostly into natural gas and corn due to favourable supply-and-demand situations, trade data showed Mar. 15. Natural gas saw close to $2 billion worth of new net long contracts by the so-called money managers

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

Speculators’ chart-based interest punches up canola

By Dwayne Klassen March 16, 2013

Support in the outside oilseed markets allowed canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada platform to push slightly higher during the week ended March 8. Strength in canola earlier in the week was derived from chart-based buying by speculative and commodity fund participants. Steady demand from the domestic and export sectors, combined with concerns about

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

Hard red winter futures trading set to expand

By Mark Weinraub March 16, 2013

The CBOT has acquired the Kansas City exchange and will move trading of the benchmark contract to Chicago

The Kansas City Board of Trade’s lightly traded hard red winter wheat futures contract is positioned to become the new benchmark for U.S. wheat prices following a takeover by CME Group, traders said. The size of the U.S. hard red winter wheat crop is the best argument for why volumes for the futures contract that

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Boats backed up in Brazil may buoy business in canola

By Dwayne Klassen March 7, 2013

Overbought price sentiment and steady farmer deliveries into the Prairie grain elevator system were just enough to cause canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform to move slightly lower during the week ended March 1. The steady deterioration of Malaysian palm oil and European rapeseed values during the reporting period helped to undermine

Beef cattle, Livestock, Livestock Markets

High feed costs, lower beef demand pressure prices

By Terryn Shiells March 7, 2013

Feeder cattle prices across Manitoba were starting to see a slight recovery during the week ended March 1, from the market’s “crash” in mid-February, but haven’t managed to move back to the levels that were seen prior to the fall. Prices weren’t able to climb back to pre-crash levels because feed costs are still extremely

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets

Wheat: Short-term trend down – long-term trend up!

By David Drozd March 7, 2013

The wheat market has been under pressure since prices peaked in July 2012 So what has changed since last summer’s high? Wheat futures prices have declined $2.50 per bushel and cash prices have declined $1. The $1.50 difference in price is due to a better basis and a lower Canadian dollar. We have an open

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Precipitation elsewhere drags on oilseed momentum

By Dwayne Klassen February 28, 2013

Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform posted small advances during the week ended Feb. 22. The gains would have been significantly higher had it not been for some late-week taking of profits by a variety of market participants. Some of the strength was related to the downward swing in the value of

Crops, News, Oilseeds

Dock worker strike exposes weak link for Brazilian export powerhouse

By Gustavo Bonato, Roberto Samora March 1, 2013

The government wants to privatize  158 ports to attract private investment,  but workers fear a loss of jobs

Reuters / Dock workers shut down the movement of global commodities through Brazilian ports early Feb. 22 during a six-hour strike to protest the government’s plan to overhaul regulations and put more than 150 terminals in the hands of the private sector. The short-lived work stoppage provided a glimpse of what could turn out to

Dairy cattle, Hogs, Livestock, News

U.S. budget cuts could affect trading contracts

February 28, 2013

chicago / reuters / Automatic U.S government spending cuts may affect some CME Group livestock and dairy contracts that depend on U.S. Agriculture Department grading and inspections, the exchange operator said Feb. 21. A spokesman for the CME did not say if the exchange would be forced to halt trading in some contracts due to

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures gain, hogs fall back

U.S. grains: Chicago grains and oilseeds rise on recent dollar weakness, biofuel optimism

Western Canadian resentment not exceptional — or highest in country — pollster says

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