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CHICAGO, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) grains futures close mixed Tuesday, as traders adjusted positions ahead of a monthly U.S. government crop report. The most active corn contract for December delivery rose 2.25 cents, or 0.66 percent, to 3.455 dollars per bushel. ...
Wheat and corn futures rose, recovering from recent multi-week lows, after the USDA said plantings would be slightly smaller than analysts expected. All the markets came under pressure from large supplies held in reserve, following recent bin-busting harvests. Low prices for crops have encouraged ...
A key justification for futures regulation in the interwar period was the idea that speculators were making grain prices volatile, and therefore speculative activity needed to be restricted. This paper uses new data on grain futures contracts traded at the Chicago Board of Trade to empirically assess...
That means they take on the risk of the grain's price going up or down. To mitigate the risk, many buyers will sell the same amount of grain they have purchased on a futures market such as CBoT until they make the physical sale. This is called hedging. European wheat futures (MATIF)...
Fire up the grill: Propane prices haven’t started summer this low since the Covid-19 lockdown three years ago. A lot of the heating fuel was left over after an unusually warm winter, while record output from natural-gas drillers and oil refiners has offset record exports. Propane pric...
To allow buyers and sellers to lock in transaction prices prior to delivery, the parties created forward contracts. These contracts bound the seller to deliver an agreed-upon amount of the grain in question for an agreed-upon price at an agreed-upon date. ...
Treasury futures open interest reached 17,222,551 contracts on May 12. Tradeweb Markets Inc. is reporting that Lee Olesky will retire from its board at the end of the second quarter of 2023 and Jacques Aigrain has been elected as Tradeweb’s next chairman. BornTech announced it has ...
CBOT corn futures rose slightly as pressure from ample U.S. and global grain supplies offsets support from potential U.S. Midwest planting delays and the fact that commodity funds already hold a huge net short position. Wheat futures were hovering near a one-month low this week, as a broad...