Morning Thoughts – Jan 11

Morning Thoughts – Jan 11

Grains – Today we’ll focus mainly on the Quarterly Grain stocks portion of Thursday’s USDA reports.  I always hesitate to cover expectations for stocks figures as they are notoriously unpredictable and it always provides a good opportunity to look foolish.  For...
Morning Thoughts – Jan 10

Morning Thoughts – Jan 10

Financials – Overnight markets have been fairly quiet it appears with only modest gains in world equity markets noted.  The UK’s FTSE 100 has hit new record highs each day this new year so far, largely as a result of the pound weakness since the start of the...
Morning Thoughts – Jan 9

Morning Thoughts – Jan 9

Grains – The index rebalance looms large this week.  I believe the rebalance efforts “officially” start tomorrow but I think we’d be fooling ourselves if we didn’t think some of the necessary actions have already been taken.  We also have to remember that this...
Morning Thoughts – Jan 6

Morning Thoughts – Jan 6

Grains – The US soybean export program has begun its seasonal decline and you can start to see things picking up in Brazil now.  The soybean line-up for export is still under year-ago levels, but I don’t think it’ll take long for the line-up to exceed last...
Morning Thoughts – Jan 5

Morning Thoughts – Jan 5

Grains – When reviewing the Fats & Oils report, implied domestic meal consumption turned out to be pretty solid during the month of Nov.  We don’t have official Census trade data just yet so this is subject to change, but implied domestic meal disappearance...
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