Continued declines in energy markets pressured the CBOT on Friday and reduced fund buying interest. Soyoil futures fell lower and to near trading range support on weaker energy markets and pulled soybeans lower as well. Wheat futures were higher as traders pointed to strong demand as reason to shrug off yesterday’s bearish technical close. The corn market drifted lower under pressure from soybeans in light volume trade. Looking forward, WPI expects range-bound and quiet trade next week with U.S. traders taking time off for the Thanksgiving holiday. December options expire next Friday after the holiday, which will further lower trading volume and interest. WPI remains bullish wheat and corn in particular, but traders may have to wait...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.