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The CME Group soybean prices finished sharply higher, corn was unable to climb out of negative territory Wednesday. The May corn futures settled 14 cents lower at $7.21 1/2. The May soybean contract closed 19 cents higher at $13.94 1/4. The May wheat futures closed 1 cent higher ...
West Texas Intermediate crude oil priced on the New York Mercantile Exchange settled close to $97 per Thursday, despite continued fighting in Libya. Paolo Scaroni, the executive director officer of Italian oil giant ENI, said oil production in the North African country has ...
Demand continues to look strong for corn after cash prices for the grain followed futures to 31-month highs. National cash price indexes maintained at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange last closed at $6.72 a bushel for corn, reflecting an average basis of 40 3/4 cents to the ...
The CME Group grain markets rebounded on continued tight supply concerns and an overbought market Wednesday. The March corn futures settled 11 3/4 cents higher at $6.91 1/2. The March soybean contract closed 22 cents higher at $13.20. The March wheat futures ended 3/4 of a cent ...
Crude oil prices climbed past $85 per barrel in New York as traders kept an eye on tensions in the Middle East. Wednesday's inventory report showed U.S. stockpiles rose by 900,000 barrels in the week ending Feb. 11, but spreading unrest in the Middle East has traders concerned ...
Grain futures closed sharply lower on the Chicago Board of Trade Tuesday on improved crop outlooks in China and South America. Corn was off 5 1/4 to off 11 3/4, soybeans were off 33 1/2 to off 35, wheat was off 31 to off 31 3/4 and oats were off 1 1/2 to off 6 1/2. Corn futures ...
An "ageing" and underinvested logistical infrastructure is damaging US export prospects, a leading grain organisation has warned, as it was revealed that China is taking steps to boost imports from South America. "Deficiencies" in America's export infrastructure have "started to ...
China's import price for soybeans rose by 20.4 percent year-on-year in January, further adding pressure on the government's efforts to contain inflation, analysts said on Monday. The import price of soybeans jumped to $558 a ton in January, while the import volume shrank by 5.3 ...
China drafted a 900 billion yuan ($134.85 billion) deficit plan for 2011, a Caing.com report said Monday, citing an anonymous government official. The plan, which will be submitted to the National People's Congress for approval in March next year, calls for the allocation of a ...
Investors were badly stung by commodities in 2008 but they have been quick to forgive and forget. According to Barclays Capital, inflows into the sector reached a new high of $7.9bn in October, taking total investor commodity holdings to a record $340bn. Since the rally in risk ...
Crude oil prices climbed Tuesday, adding 68 cents to breach the $90 mark at $90.05 per barrel as equity markets closed higher. The dollar held steady, the dollar index rising 0.05 percent. Heating oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange added 2.93 cents to $2.5188 per ...
World corn inventories, which set to end this season at their smallest for four years, are poised to tighten further, grain experts have said in a report forecasting a 2% rise in wheat area for 2011-12. The International Grains Council said that world grain stocks, which are on ...
China, the second-biggest energy consumer in the world, today raised retail gasoline and diesel prices by RMB 310 and RMB 300 per metric ton, respectively, the National Development & Reform Commission said in a statement on its website. The price adjustment will hike the ...
Add another item to the list of threats to the economic recovery: the price of oil. Memories of $145-a-barrel oil and $4-a-gallon gasoline faded quickly after the last big price spike in 2008. Now they're coming back as investors -- either encouraged by the global recovery or ...
A big movement in the yuan exchange rate would have a large impact on China's economic and financial stability next year, so maintaining the basic stability of the yuan exchange rate 'is of great significance,' the Chinese central bank-run Financial News said in a commentary ...
NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, with the Federal Reserve's maintaining of easy-money policy and strong economic data sending the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index to their highest closing level in two years. "The economic ...
BEIJING - China's property prices rose at the slowest pace in a year in November, as the government continued its rigorous real estate policies and launched new measures to soak up liquidity in the market. Home prices in 70 major cities climbed 7.7 percent from a year earlier, ...
China's government said it will raise its inflation target for 2011 to 4% from this year's 3%, acknowledging the upward momentum of consumer prices despite recent tightening measures. The altered inflation target was reported Tuesday by Chinese state-run television, citing Zhang ...
BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- Prices of vegetables in China fell for a fifth week since the start of November this year, as combined price declines reached 17.4 percent during the period, a report by the Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday. For the week of Dec. 6-12, prices of 18 ...
BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's economy faces fresh challenges and problems despite quickening economic growth as seen in the November economic data released Saturday, since the world economy has not fully recovered from the financial crisis, a senior official said here ...
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