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Though retreating slightly from the open, the CME Group grain markets settled sharply higher Thursday. The March corn futures settled 13 3/4 cents higher at $6.44 3/4. The March soybean contract closed 6 3/4 cents higher at $14.21 1/2. The March wheat futures ended 13 cents ...
Are corn prices on their way to $11 a bushel? It looks that way, comparing Chicago futures prices this time round with those 15 years ago when stocks last got this tight. The similarity in the move in corn prices is startling, says Travis Carter, a consultant at US broker FCStone...
Cash bids for U.S. corn were higher Friday, rising in unison with futures as the market continued to digest government stock data showing smaller inventories of U.S. corn supplies. The market is effectively pushing prices higher in an effort cool consumption of corn inventories ...
China will have to import grain to meet its domestic needs in the near future, which will mark the end of the country's self-sufficient policy on grain products, Caijing.com.cn reported Wednesday, citing a Standard Chartered report. Standard Chartered said that there are concerns ...
Edible oil imports for 2010 totaled 6.87 million metric tons (MT), a 15.8% decrease year-on-year. Edible oil imports for December 2010 were 790,000 tons.
History will clash with hard economics on Thursday when US farm officials unveil long-awaited estimates on US crop inventories and sowings, which for corn could come within 530,000 acres of setting a post-war high. Standard Chartered raised the bar further on estimates for this ...
BEIJING, March 3 (Xinhua) -- China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin on Thursday vowed to "actively yet prudently" carry forward democratic oversight, and contribute to the transformation of the country's economic development pattern. Jia made the remarks in a report delivered ...
Grain futures closed higher on the Chicago Board of Trade Thursday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a supportive planting forecast report. Corn was up 30, soybeans up 33 3/4 to up 38 1/4, wheat was up 36 to up 37 3/4 and oats up 16 to up 18. The USDA said farmers ...
U.S. soybean and corn futures ended the year at more than two-year highs, closing a strong 2010 for agricultural commodities. Soybeans futures set a 28-month high of $13.9375 a bushel at the Chicago Board of Trade, while corn futures settled at a 29-month high of $6.29 a bushel. ...
NANJING -- Stabilization of major currencies need to be addressed prior to broadening the role of the Special Drawing Right (SDR), Nobel laureate Robert Mundell told China Daily on Thursday. Mundell, who is professor of economics at Columbia University, said he will deliver a ...
CHICAGO, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Chicago grain prices fell for a second straight trading day on Tuesday, as a stronger dollar reduced the appeal of agricultural products. Besides, winter storm in Kansas is expected to boost wheat crop and thus pressured the market. The most active ...
Resistance to sharply higher prices was blamed by the International Grains Council (IGC) for a reduction in its estimate of world trade in wheat flour in the 2010-11 season. In its latest analysis of trade prospects in the current season, the IGC placed the likely total at 11,700...
The Chinese currency, or the yuan, on Thursday gained 22 basis points from Wednesday to a record high of 6.5564 per U.S. dollar. On China's foreign exchange spot market, the yuan can rise or fall 0.5 percent from the central parity rate each trading day. The central parity rate ...
Tunisians, Egyptians and, to a lesser extent, Libyans can attest to the fact that food insecurity can be a powerful engine for change. Social awakenings fuelled by scarcity of food supplies continue to spread at a spectacular rate, by grassroots political channels as well as the ...
Argentina's tax agency on Monday broadened a crack-down on what it says is rampant tax evasion by multi-national grain exporters, suspending three more companies from a key grain trading registry. In a press release, the agency, Afip, said it has suspended Louis Dreyfus, Bunge ...
Two leading analysts called time on the wave of upgrades for Brazil's soybean crop, following the rains which have seen a state of emergency declared in some areas, with localised crop losses of up to 60%. Oil World, the Frankfurt-based analysis group, cut its estimate for the ...
As the Japanese tsunami and earthquake and fear of a nuclear catastrophe sent Japanese shares and Asian stocks tumbling, Malaysian economists are saying the post-quake reconstruction process would likely to boost the Asian regional economy. The situation in Japan, the world's ...
Most farm produce prices in China continued to rise in the week ending March 6, but generally at a slower rate compared to the previous week, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said in a report released on Tuesday. Retail prices of rice rose 0.6 percent week on week while flour ...
Crude oil prices in New York dropped 3.9 percent Tuesday as traders contemplated the economic repercussions of Japan's massive earthquake. Industries throughout Japan have shut down, including automakers and producers of electronics goods, vital components of the Japanese economy...
With food prices skyrocketing worldwide, the chat at the four-day Gulfood exhibition and congress in Dubai was not only about tastes and flavors but also about the economics of basic food ingredients and meals and drinks. Inaugurated on Sunday by Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al ...
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