Morning Thoughts – Jan 26

Morning Thoughts – Jan 26

Grains – Export sales are due this morning, here are expectations: Corn 700-1,100 Soybeans 450-700 Soymeal 120-250 Soyoil 10-25 Wheat 200-500 Here were the flashed sales during the period: 1/17—103k mt corn to unknown for 16/17 1/19—110k mt corn to unknown for...
Morning Thoughts – Jan 25

Morning Thoughts – Jan 25

Grains – Though it has been well over a week since the USDA’s Grain Stocks report, I thought it might be worth a quick look at the annual breakdown of US grain storage capacity and how Dec 1 stocks look in reference to capacity. USDA reported that total on-farm...

Morning Thoughts – Jan 24

Financials – Big news out of the UK this morning as the supreme court ruled that PM May must seek an act of Parliament to trigger the two-year countdown to Brexit.  The ruling passed by an 8-3 vote.  The judges also ruled that legislatures in Scotland and...

Morning Thoughts – Jan 23

Grains – The old saying of course is “oats knows”, but I found it somewhat humorous that virtually nobody knows what is going on behind the latest oats rally.  I will state unequivocally that I know very little about oats, but I’ve done some asking around to...

Morning Thoughts – Jan 19

Financials – Fed Chair Yellen gave a speech in SF late yesterday and her comments were deemed as slightly hawkish.  The dollar firmed modestly following her remarks and Fed Funds dropped slightly.  The key comment off the newswires was she and “most colleagues...

Morning Thoughts – Jan 18

Softs – Brazil’s Conab issued their first official projection for 2017 coffee production yesterday.  Conab is projecting coffee output in a range of 43.7-47.5 million bags, which would be down fairly significantly from 51.4 million in 2016.  The smaller crop...
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