THE OPEN Jan beans: 11 1/2 higher Jan meal: 3.90 higher Jan soyoil: 65 higher March corn: 2 3/4 higher March wheat: 11 higher The markets opened higher and continued to find technical buying activity on pullbacks. The recent drop created more short-covering opportunities, while weaker longs seek to get back into the market at recent lows. More business announcements and a good export sales number helped corn, while wheat found short-covering from Russian statements trying to stem the tide of higher domestic prices. Opening rallies continued to build into the numbers throughout the session, and into what would become a very benign and somewhat disappointing report for the bulls.&nbs...
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