The day session produced a bias toward lower prices, although nothing remotely close to a market collapse. Soybean futures prices were off about 17 cents at their lows, but they recovered with July soybeans closing up 1.25 cents as the November contract closed 5.5 cents lower. General Comments To the surprise of no one, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank announced at the close of its April meeting today that it would leave its interest rate unchanged. Analysts hoped that the Fed’s post-meeting statement would provide clues about the chances of a rate increase at its next meeting in June. However, its carefully worded release gave no clue about what might be expected at its next meeting even though its tone was somewhat more positive than it wa...