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Spillover Buying Drives Up Prices

November 10, 2011

REUTERS / U.S. December cattle futures sprinted to their highest ever for a spot month Nov. 4, in response to strong cash cattle prices and broader market advances driven by Greece debt resolution optimism. Cash cattle and outside markets ran higher, so you re bound to get some spillover buying across the board on the

News, Oilseeds

Topping Action In Soybean Meal Sends Calming Signal

By David Drozd November 3, 2011

Livestock producers were left scratching their heads when the December 2011 soybean meal futures contract posted a new high in late August. The news was incredibly bullish, as concerns of an early frost were on producers minds. The big question was, Should I be locking in the price of meal before it gets any higher?

Grain Markets

EU Meltdown Takes Down Global MF

November 3, 2011

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange and ICE Futures Canada said Oct. 31 that customers of broker-dealer MF Global were limited to liquidating their positions. The exchange, which owns the Chicago Board of Trade, said it would no longer recognize MF Global, which filed for Chapter 11 as a guarantor for floor trading. The company filed for

Livestock, News

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

News

Harami Predicted A Strong U.S. Dollar

By David Drozd October 6, 2011

You d be hard pressed to find anyone this summer who wasn t aware of the United States escalating debt, increasing unemployment and home foreclosures that produced the current economic slowdown. All summer, as the news grew increasingly bearish, with newspaper headlines suggesting the greenback was about to crash and burn, more market analysts began

News

Gold Shines In Light Of Economic Uncertainty

By David Drozd August 4, 2011

Gold has garnered a lot of attention since nearly doubling in price over the past three years and gaining over 600 per cent this past decade. Gold’s lustre comes from the fact investors have always viewed the shiny metal as a safe investment in times of economic uncertainty. Unknown outcomes for debt-ridden countries such as

Crops

Time To AgriInvest

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 7, 2011

When 2010 AgriInvest Deposit Notices appear in mailboxes in the coming weeks, producers are encouraged to take advantage of this easy-to-use program. AgriInvest is a self-managed producer-government savings account that allows producers to set money aside which can be used to recover from small income shortfalls or to make investments to reduce on-farm risks. The

News

Reversal Pattern Alerts Livestock Producers To Cattle Price Downturn

June 2, 2011

Ca t t l e prices have been sliding lower, since a two-week reversal developed in early April, 2 0 1 1 . T h i s reversal pattern identified a quick halt to the rally after cattle prices climbed to an unprecedented historical high of $122.875. TWO-WEEK REVERSAL This chart formation indicates a change

Cereals, Opinion

Glencore: One Of The World’s Largest Private Companies, Goes Public

By John Morriss May 12, 2011

With the end of the Canadian Wheat Board now virtually certain following last week’s election of a Conservative majority, it was interesting to see that news coincide with a glimpse of a company that may soon play a bigger part in the Canadian grain-marketing future. On May 4, Swiss-based Glencore, sometimes described as “the biggest

Crops

Bull Market In Corn Resumes After Seasonal Downturn

March 31, 2011

It appears the seasonal tendency for corn prices to move lower in March may be over, due to the bears being unable to push prices below an important line of support on the December 2011 futures contract. This is also the point at which a reversal pattern called a harami materialized on the candlestick chart.

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Tag Archives Investment

Spillover Buying Drives Up Prices

Topping Action In Soybean Meal Sends Calming Signal

EU Meltdown Takes Down Global MF

Hedge Funds Move Into Cattle As Demand Grows And Supplies Shrink

Harami Predicted A Strong U.S. Dollar

Gold Shines In Light Of Economic Uncertainty

Time To AgriInvest

Reversal Pattern Alerts Livestock Producers To Cattle Price Downturn

Glencore: One Of The World’s Largest Private Companies, Goes Public

Bull Market In Corn Resumes After Seasonal Downturn

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