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By Whitney McFerron and Luzi Ann Javier, Bloomberg |
May 14, 2013
Corn fell in Chicago and soybeans swung between gains and losses on speculation that drier weather will allow U.S. farmers to speed up planting after a report showed fieldwork is progressing the slowest since the 1980s.
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By Jeff Wilson and Whitney McFerron, Bloomberg |
April 29, 2013
Corn jumped the most in 10 months, gaining the maximum allowed by the Chicago Board of Trade, as rain and frigid weather slowed the pace of planting in the U.S., the world’s top exporter.
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By Elizabeth Campbell |
April 23, 2013
Hog prices rose for the first time in three sessions on speculation that warmer weather will boost U.S. grilling demand.
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By Tony C. Dreibus and Jeff Wilson, Bloomberg |
April 23, 2013
The coldest start ever to the wheat-growing season in Kansas and freezing weather across the southern Great Plains are compounding damage to U.S. crops already hurt by the worst drought since the 1930s.
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By Whitney McFerron and Elizabeth Campbell |
April 17, 2013
U.S. hog farmers are poised to produce a record amount of pork at a time when exports are slumping the most in more than a decade, prolonging a global glut into a fifth consecutive year.
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By Tony C. Dreibus, Bloomberg |
April 15, 2013
Hedge funds and other speculators added to bullish gold bets as the metal slumped into a bear market and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. warned the retreat is accelerating after the longest rally in nine decades.
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By Jeff Wilson, Bloomberg |
April 9, 2013
The record collapse in U.S. corn exports and shrinking domestic demand are leaving more grain in silos, spurring a bear market just eight months after drought drove prices to an all-time high.
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By Supunnabul Suwannakij and Chanyaporn Chanjaroen, Bloomberg |
April 1, 2013
Corn futures headed for a bear market, falling to the lowest price since July, on signs of ample supplies in the U.S., the world’s top grower and exporter. Wheat reached a nine-month low, and soybeans tumbled.
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By Elizabeth Campbell, Bloomberg |
April 1, 2013
Investors are boosting wagers on higher commodity prices at the fastest pace in almost four years, rebounding from the least bullish position since 2009, on signs that the U.S. is accelerating and Europe’s debt crisis is easing.
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By Jeff Wilson, Bloomberg |
March 27, 2013
Corn supplies in the U.S., the biggest grower, are shrinking at the fastest pace in almost four decades as improving demand from ethanol refiners drains reserves already diminished by drought.
