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1 Ags Fall, as China Takes Its Turn to Hurt Prices | AM Markets | Agrimoney

1 Ags Fall, as China Takes Its Turn to Hurt Prices | AM Markets | Agrimoney

"On margins, state-owned Shanghai Securities News has reported that Chinese futures brokers have been banned by regulators from providing margin financing. Cotton volte face

On the Dalian exchange, soyoil futures for January settled down 2.8% at 6,632 yuan a tonne, while rival vegetable oil palm oil for January tumbled 2.9% to 6,122 yuan a tonne.

On the Zhengzhou exchange, sugar futures for…

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8 Strong Demand Signs Revive Corn, Soybean Futures | Agrimoney

8 Strong Demand Signs Revive Corn, Soybean Futures | Agrimoney

"The last few sessions have been negative for the row crops, with January soybean futures for instance down nearly 4% over the past week, in a decline blamed on jitters ahead of the US Department of Agriculture’s key monthly Wasde crop report, next week. …INTL FCStone opened the monthly round of pre-Wasde soy yield estimates at 52.8 bushels per acre, an increase of 0.3 bushels per acre from its…

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5 - Grain Market Calm - Does It Herald a Storm? - AM Markets | Agrimoney

5 – Grain Market Calm – Does It Herald a Storm? – AM Markets | Agrimoney

Will the calm in Chicago grain markets precede a storm?

One factor that has been puzzling traders is the lack of volatility in corn and soybean option markets that normally precedes a US Department of Agriculture Wasde monthly crop report, the latest of which we will witness on Friday.

Wasde’s are anyway highpoints of the ag market calendar, but particularly this time, with the release of the…

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5X5 - 3. MARKETS

5X5 – 3. MARKETS

• 11 – AM Markets: Aussie Wheat Spreads Widen Amid Quality Worries

"Are Australian growers getting big in farmers’ global hold-out-for-higher-crop-prices drive too?

US farmers have been notably reluctant to sell the likes of corn and soybeans at weaker values, and earlier this week Kernel Holding highlighted the trend in Ukraine too earlier this week reported a 41% tumble in ebitda at its grain…

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5X5 - 3. MARKETS

5X5 – 3. MARKETS

• 11 – AM Markets: Rubber Futures Bounce, as China Fears Ease

"Is rubber bouncing at last?

US investors may be enjoying a Thanksgiving break, meaning many benchmark markets are closed, but that does not mean that trading in all commodities is quiet.

And rubber futures are on a bit of a tear, after hitting a six-year low in Tokyo earlier this month.

China, the top importer of the tyre ingredient,…

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5X5 - 3. MARKETS

5X5 – 3. MARKETS

• 11 – AM Markets: Grains Gain, Giving Farmers Pre-Holiday Solace | Agrimoney

"US farmers received an unfortunate Thanksgiving present, with an official forecast that their incomes will drop 38% this year, to a 13-year low of $55.9bn.

That figure, downgraded from an estimate in August of $55.9bn, would be the steepest drop since 1983, the data, from the US Department of Agriculture, showed, with…

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5X5 - 3. MARKETS

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• 15 – AM Markets: Soy Holds Firm, After Argentina Sell Trade Fails

"So, can grain and soybean futures extend their bounce of the last session?

That recovery had been unexpected by many investors, especially for soybeans, with victory by Mauricio Macri in Argentina’s presidential elections at the weekend seen as likely to herald a flood of exports of the oilseed.

“Market chatter is already…

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