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Friday, June 20, 2008 4:01 PM Gavin Maguire, Iowa Grain Company's Director of Research was chosen by the CME Group to give an educational presentation at the June Traders Expo in Los Angeles. All exhibitors are allowed to submit
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Friday, June 20, 2008 4:04 PM General ReCap: Corn saw a surprisingly strong open before struggling the second half of the day. Informa released their acreage estimates at 10:30, which put a negative tone on the market. 
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Friday, June 20, 2008 4:01 PM Gold consolidated in the upper end of yesterday's trading range today after failing to make it through the June 9th peak on 912.50 on this week's run up. The market was supported all week by a steadi
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Friday, June 20, 2008 4:00 PM July silver traded both sides of unchanged today, staying inside yesterday's range. So far it has failed to follow through on yesterday's breakout above the June 9th highs and has since retreated bel
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Friday, June 20, 2008 4:00 PM December Wheat finished down 14 3/4 at 907 1/4, 27 3/4 off the high and 3 1/4 up from the low. September Wheat closed down 14 1/2 at 884 1/4. This was 3 1/2 up from the low and 27 1/2 off the high.
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Friday, June 20, 2008 3:59 PM November Soybeans finished down 12 1/2 at 1509, 32 1/4 off the high and 10 1/2 up from the low. August Soybeans closed down 13 at 1535. This was 10 up from the low and 34 1/2 off the high.
December
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Friday, June 20, 2008 3:58 PM December Corn finished down 6 at 755 1/2, 16 1/4 off the high and 4 up from the low. September Corn closed down 6 1/4 at 735 1/2. This was 3 3/4 up from the low and 16 1/2 off the high.
Corn opened
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:32 PM July silver broke out above the recent trading range today and, unlike gold, even traded above the June highs. Silver appeared to be trading off of the copper market, which traded to its highest leve
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:31 PM The gold market broke through resistance at $900 today despite weaker crude oil price and traded in a choppy, sideways pattern, albeit at the higher price level, throughout the session. Overnight gai
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:31 PM December Wheat finished down 23 1/2 at 922, 29 1/4 off the high and 5 3/4 up from the low. September Wheat closed down 23 1/4 at 898 3/4. This was 6 1/4 up from the low and 29 off the high.
The mark
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:30 PM November Soybeans finished down 21 1/2 at 1521 1/2, 30 3/4 off the high and 29 3/4 up from the low. August Soybeans closed down 13 at 1548. This was 29 up from the low and 23 off the high.
December
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:29 PM December Corn finished down 18 1/2 at 761 1/2, 25 1/2 off the high and 10 1/4 up from the low. September Corn closed down 18 1/2 at 741 3/4. This was 10 up from the low and 25 3/4 off the high.
Pric
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:39 PM Clearly the silver market was tracking its quasi industrial or physical commodity market fundamentals throughout the trading session Wednesday, as the weakness in gold prices in the morning action di
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:38 PM The gold market waffled around both sides of unchanged in the morning action but seemed to settle into a stronger bias in the afternoon action. With the US equity market down aggressively at times We
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:38 PM December Wheat finished up 6 at 945 1/2, 8 1/2 off the high and 19 1/4 up from the low. September Wheat closed up 5 3/4 at 922. This was 19 up from the low and 9 off the high.
The wheat market saw t
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:36 PM November Soybeans finished down 10 at 1543, 23 3/4 off the high and 15 up from the low. August Soybeans closed down 1 3/4 at 1561. This was 17 up from the low and 15 1/2 off the high.
December Soyme
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:36 PM December Corn finished up 4 at 780, 8 off the high and 13 3/4 up from the low. September Corn closed up 3 3/4 at 760 1/4. This was 13 1/2 up from the low and 7 3/4 off the high.
Prices broke early i
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:37 PM The gold market was once again buffeted by the ebb and flow of the US Dollar. In fact, it also seemed as if weakness in oil prices and weaker than expected US economic readings served to keep the gol
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:35 PM While the silver market seemed to outperform the gold market during the trade Tuesday and it generally managed to hold most of the gains from the prior session, it seemed as if the rest of the metals
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:35 PM December Wheat finished up 22 at 939 1/2, 2 1/2 off the high and 29 1/2 up from the low. September Wheat closed up 22 at 916 1/4. This was 28 up from the low and 2 3/4 off the high.
Wheat opened hig
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:33 PM November Soybeans finished up 30 at 1553, 5 off the high and 39 3/4 up from the low. August Soybeans closed up 25 1/4 at 1562 3/4. This was 34 1/2 up from the low and 7 1/4 off the high.
December So
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:33 PM December Corn finished up 11 at 776, 1 1/2 off the high and 18 up from the low. September Corn closed up 9 3/4 at 756 1/2. This was 17 up from the low and 1 1/2 off the high.
The market opened margi
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:11 AM Compiled 06/17/08 6:00 AM (CT)
Statistics: London Gold Fix $883.00 +$10.80 LME Copper stocks 123,550 tons +1,500 tons
SILVER MARKET FUNDAMENTALS: (6:00 AM CT) After a massive and somewhat impressiv
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:10 AM Compiled 06/17/08 6:00 AM (CT)
Statistics: London Gold Fix $883.00 +$10.80 LME Copper stocks 123,550 tons +1,500 tons
GOLD MARKET FUNDAMENTALS: (6:00 AM CST) While Indian gold prices were slightly
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:06 AM November soybeans traded 4 cents higher overnight, finishing near mid range. Malaysian palm was down more than 2% and Indonesia was also lower. Crude oil was lower overnight, and the dollar was mixed
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:06 AM December wheat was 2 1/2 cents lower in overnight action.
Wheat started the day higher yesterday and then sold off throughout the day, along with corn and soybeans, before finishing lower. Traders c
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:05 AM December corn traded unchanged overnight. Crude oil was lower overnight.
Corn hit a new all-time high in old and new crop contracts again yesterday before selling off to finish unchanged in the Dece
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:10 PM NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Shares of ethanol companies plummeted Thursday after a Citigroup analyst said clients should sell those stocks in the wake of flooding in the Midwest, which has damaged crops an
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:12 PM WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - Biofuels account for asmall but growing share of higher U.S. retail food prices, twosenior Bush administration officials said ahead of a Senatehearing on the issue on
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:14 PM Potential Floods Continue to Elevate Corn, Soybeans; Wheat Pressured by Argentine Exports
Continuing to digest the current flooding in the western and upper Midwest, and its associated potential for
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:09 PM CHICAGO, June 12 (Reuters) - A casualty of powerful stormsthat hit the Kansas State University campus on Wednesday wasthe Wind Erosion Lab, which the university said was destroyedby an apparent torna
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:16 PM December Wheat finished down 17 1/2 at 891 1/2, 25 1/2 off the high and 14 1/2 up from the low. September Wheat closed down 17 1/2 at 868. This was 13 3/4 up from the low and 28 off the high.
The ma
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:16 PM November Soybeans finished up 3 1/2 at 1512 1/2, 3 1/2 off the high and 34 up from the low. August Soybeans closed up 18 3/4 at 1538. This was 45 up from the low and 9 1/2 off the high.
December Soy
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:15 PM December Corn finished up 6 3/4 at 739 1/2, 15 3/4 off the high and 13 1/4 up from the low. September Corn closed up 6 at 722 3/4. This was 12 3/4 up from the low and 15 3/4 off the high.
After open
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:17 PM The silver market saw initial pressure in the wake of the wave up move in the Greenback and the market was able to forge a bounce into mid session, but in the end the bear camp was generally able to
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:18 PM The gold market continued to remain out of favor for most of the trading session Thursday and with the US Dollar managing the highest trade since February 28th it is likely that currency related sell
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:37 PM Certainly the silver market was lifted by the reversal in the US Dollar and certainly the silver market was lifted by the positive leadership being displayed in the gold market but in the end seeing
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:37 PM December Wheat finished up 60 at 909, equal to the high and 64 up from the low. September Wheat closed up 60 at 885 1/2. This was 64 up from the low and equal to the high.
Wheat opened higher again
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:36 PM November Soybeans finished up 68 at 1509, 2 off the high and 66 1/4 up from the low. August Soybeans closed up 70 at 1519 1/4. This was 67 up from the low and equal to the high.
December Soymeal clo
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:35 PM December Corn finished up 30 at 732 3/4, equal to the high and 29 3/4 up from the low. September Corn closed up 30 at 716 3/4. This was 30 up from the low and equal to the high.
Another higher open
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 5:14 PM 6/10/08 Given latest Commerce Dept export numbers, Jun-Apr total wheat usage is running 15% ahead of a year ago with the USDA currently forecasting a 15% yearly increase (feed/seed use down 45%
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 5:07 PM The classic gold bulls had to have a sinking feeling early in the trade today as a potentially disconcerting US Trade Deficit reading and initial strength in oil prices could have prompted an extensi
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 5:06 PM December Wheat finished up 20 1/2 at 849, 2 1/2 off the high and 24 up from the low. September Wheat closed up 20 1/2 at 825 1/2. This was 23 1/4 up from the low and 2 off the high.
December wheat o
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 5:06 PM The silver market also saw outside market forces applying pressure to prices on Tuesday, with the trade initially falling under the weight of the Dollar rise, but eventually it appeared that both tec
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 5:05 PM November Soybeans finished down 6 at 1441, 18 1/2 off the high and 25 3/4 up from the low. August Soybeans closed down 4 1/2 at 1449 1/4. This was 27 1/4 up from the low and 17 3/4 off the high.
Dec
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 5:04 PM December Corn finished up 17 1/2 at 702 3/4, 3/4 off the high and 19 1/2 up from the low. September Corn closed up 16 1/4 at 686 3/4. This was 18 1/4 up from the low and 1/4 off the high.
Corn opene
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Monday, June 09, 2008 4:56 PM The gold market did manage to initially add to last week's bounce in the early trade but it was clear that gold was seeing a divided trade. Clearly seeing the Dollar throw off the weakness generated
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Monday, June 09, 2008 4:55 PM The silver market clearly exhibited more vulnerability than the gold market for most of the trading session Monday, perhaps because the quasi industrial/demand impacted metals markets of copper and p
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Monday, June 09, 2008 4:54 PM December Wheat finished down 21 3/4 at 828 1/2, 47 1/2 off the high and 2 1/4 up from the low. September Wheat closed down 22 1/4 at 805. This was 2 1/4 up from the low and 49 1/4 off the high.
The
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Monday, June 09, 2008 4:53 PM November Soybeans finished up 7 1/2 at 1447, 28 off the high and 7 up from the low. August Soybeans closed down 3 1/2 at 1453 3/4. This was 5 3/4 up from the low and 36 1/4 off the high.
December So
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Monday, June 09, 2008 4:53 PM December Corn finished up 7 1/2 at 685 1/4, 13 1/4 off the high and 1 1/4 up from the low. September Corn closed up 6 3/4 at 670 1/2. This was 1 up from the low and 14 3/4 off the high.
Corn opened
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Friday, June 06, 2008 4:21 PM The gold market showed a very impressive recovery bounce despite the fact that the market could have easily fretted over the prospect of further US slowing ahead. However, the gold market was certain
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Friday, June 06, 2008 4:20 PM While silver relatively underperformed the gold and platinum markets on Friday, it seemed as if the entire metals complex was lifted in the wake of events on Friday. Certainly seeing the US Dollar re
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Friday, June 06, 2008 4:20 PM July Wheat finished up 25 1/2 at 811, 18 3/4 off the high and 27 3/4 up from the low. December Wheat closed up 26 3/4 at 851 1/4. This was 28 1/4 up from the low and 14 3/4 off the high.
Wheat was t
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Friday, June 06, 2008 4:19 PM July Soybeans finished up 7 at 1459, 29 off the high and 11 up from the low. November Soybeans closed up 7 1/2 at 1439 1/2. This was 10 1/2 up from the low and 21 1/2 off the high.
July Soymeal clos
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Friday, June 06, 2008 4:18 PM July Corn finished up 6 1/2 at 649 3/4, 13 1/2 off the high and 8 up from the low. December Corn closed up 6 3/4 at 677 1/2. This was 8 3/4 up from the low and 13 off the high.
Today's higher open i
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Friday, June 06, 2008 4:24 PM Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:54 PM Department
of Energy
monthly oxygenate output
report for July, released
October 2, reported
U.S. ethanol output
increased to a new
record 548 million gallons,
up 21 million from
the previous month. T
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:52 PM Clearly the gold bears were taken aback by the clear and rather significant reversal in the Dollar from its early new high for the move probe on Thursday morning. However, seeing ECB dialogue support
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:51 PM With the silver market also getting its share of private bearish price predictions during the trade Thursday it was very impressive to see the market generally favor the upside. In fact, with gold fa
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:51 PM July Wheat finished up 32 1/2 at 785 1/2, 1 1/2 off the high and 32 up from the low. December Wheat closed up 32 at 824 1/2. This was 31 1/2 up from the low and 1/2 off the high.
The wheat market op
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:50 PM July Soybeans finished up 63 at 1452, 4 off the high and 61 3/4 up from the low. November Soybeans closed up 52 1/4 at 1432. This was 54 3/4 up from the low and 1 off the high.
July Soymeal closed u
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:49 PM July Corn finished up 28 3/4 at 643 1/4, 1/2 off the high and 28 3/4 up from the low. December Corn closed up 27 3/4 at 670 3/4. This was 27 3/4 up from the low and 1/4 off the high.
Old and new cro
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:13 AM Effective Sunday night, Monday, June 9, 2008 business - June and September Currency Futures will interchange. June Currency Futures will trade as the second position and September Currency Futures wi
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:52 AM Compiled 06/05/08 6:00 AM (CT)
Statistics: London Gold Fix $873.25 -$4.25 LME Copper stocks 123,500 tons +1,250 tons
GOLD MARKET FUNDAMENTALS: (6:00 AM CST) It goes without saying that the bear cam
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:51 AM Statistics: London Gold Fix $873.25 -$4.25 LME Copper stocks 123,500 tons +1,250 tons
SILVER MARKET FUNDAMENTALS: (6:00 AM CT) Relatively speaking the silver market has held up better than the gold
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:50 AM July wheat was 5 cents higher in overnight action.
Wheat rallied early in the session yesterday, but prices softened late in the session despite a late, sharp rally in corn. Overnight trade was high
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:49 AM July soybeans traded 20 1/2 cents higher overnight. Malaysian palm oil rallied by about 2.6% today despite expectations of a windfall tax on palm producers in that country. However, palm oil prices i
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:48 AM July corn traded 5 3/4 cents higher overnight. Crude oil was marginally higher.
Corn rallied yesterday after a lower open. It remained firm until late in the session before staging a sharp rally to
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:28 PM The gold market managed another new high for the move but it took a combination of new lows for the move in the Dollar and a new high for the move in the crude oil market to definitively power up gol
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:27 PM The silver market also managed another new high for the move on Wednesday and it goes without saying that the market was led higher by the action in gold. However, silver certainly showed a compacted
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:27 PM July Wheat finished down 6 at 778, 16 1/2 off the high and 3 up from the low. December Wheat closed down 4 1/2 at 814. This was 3 1/2 up from the low and 15 off the high.
July wheat opened lower and
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:26 PM July Soybeans finished up 17 1/2 at 1349, 9 off the high and 23 up from the low. November Soybeans closed up 29 1/4 at 1355. This was 35 up from the low and 7 1/2 off the high.
July Soymeal closed d
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:25 PM July Corn finished up 17 1/2 at 607 1/4, 1 3/4 off the high and 18 1/4 up from the low. December Corn closed up 17 1/2 at 633 1/2. This was 18 1/4 up from the low and 1 1/4 off the high.
Old and new
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:01 AM Compiled 05/20/08 6:00 AM (CT)
Statistics: London Gold Fix $907.00 -$1.75 LME Copper stocks 122,650 tons -75 tons
GOLD MARKET FUNDAMENTALS: (6:00 AM CST) While the gold market is starting the sessi
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:00 AM Statistics: London Gold Fix $907.00 -$1.75 LME Copper stocks 122,650 tons -75 tons
SILVER MARKET FUNDAMENTALS: (6:00 AM CT) The silver market has clearly lagged behind the gold market on the recent
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:59 AM July wheat traded 7 1/2 cents higher in overnight action. The dollar was sharply lower overnight.
Traders indicate that recent strength in wheat has been mainly on short covering by locals and commi
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:58 AM July soybeans traded 5 cents higher overnight. The Malaysian palm oil was down nearly 1/2% today. The dollar was sharply lower overnight.
Soybeans, meal and oil all traded sharply lower yesterday, a
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:57 AM July corn traded 3 3/4 cents higher overnight. The dollar was sharply lower which helped support.
Traders indicated that yesterday's weakness came on continued expectations of rapid planting progres
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:55 AM July Soybeans finished up 30 1/2 at 1378, 24 off the high and 28 1/2 up from the low. November Soybeans closed up 27 3/4 at 1347. This was 27 up from the low and 22 1/4 off the high.
July Soymeal cl
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Friday, May 16, 2008 2:55 PM July Wheat finished up 4 at 775 1/2, 8 1/2 off the high and 9 3/4 up from the low. December Wheat closed up 3 3/4 at 809 3/4. This was 9 3/4 up from the low and 7 3/4 off the high.
Wheat opened high
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Friday, May 16, 2008 2:54 PM The gold market managed a quasi impressive range up extension on Friday and since that move comes in the wake of a two week consolidation the trade seemed to take the action Friday seriously. Certain
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Friday, May 16, 2008 2:54 PM The silver market just didn't seem to get as much of a lift as the gold market early in the trade Friday, but in the end July silver did manage to migrate toward the upper end of the last two week's
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Friday, May 16, 2008 2:53 PM July Corn finished down 8 at 591, 17 1/2 off the high and 3 1/2 up from the low. December Corn closed down 5 3/4 at 616 3/4. This was 3 3/4 up from the low and 15 3/4 off the high.
Yesterday's sharp
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Friday, May 16, 2008 2:51 PM CHICAGO, May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CME Group, the world's largest derivatives exchange, will close its trading floor on Monday, May 26, in observance of Memorial Day. Abbreviated electronic tr
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:59 PM NEW YORK ( May 13, 2008) — Today, The Wall Street Journal Digital Network named Sarabjit "Ruby" Walia as chief technology officer, effective immediately.
Mr. Walia, 47, will be respo
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:40 PM July Wheat finished down 9 3/4 at 795 3/4, 14 1/4 off the high and 5 3/4 up from the low. December Wheat closed down 9 1/2 at 830 3/4. This was 5 3/4 up from the low and 12 3/4 off the high.
Wheat o
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:40 PM July Soybeans finished up 37 at 1379 1/2, 3 off the high and 44 3/4 up from the low. November Soybeans closed up 36 1/2 at 1325 3/4. This was 40 3/4 up from the low and 3 1/4 off the high.
July Soym
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:39 PM July Corn finished down 7 1/2 at 607 1/4, 7 1/2 off the high and 12 1/4 up from the low. December Corn closed down 6 3/4 at 631. This was 14 up from the low and 6 3/4 off the high.
The market opened
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:42 PM The gold market initially attempted to withstand early selling pressure on Tuesday but apparently the trade was poised to slide in sympathy with overt weakness in several physical commodity markets.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:41 PM Silver prices were unable to de-link with overly weak gold prices during the action Tuesday. It also seemed as if weakness in a host of physical commodity markets were coming under long liquidation p
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:49 AM North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven on Friday declared an "early phase" agricultural drought emergency, making state assistance available to livestock producers. A panel is set to meet Wed
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:09 AM Statistics: London Gold Fix $877.00 -$5.50 LME Copper stocks 121,775 tons +125 tons
GOLD MARKET FUNDAMENTALS: (6:00 AM CST) With gold prices starting out weaker today in the face of fresh news of a
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:36 AM Statistics: London Gold Fix $877.00 -$5.50 LME Copper stocks 121,775 tons +125 tons
SILVER MARKET FUNDAMENTALS: (6:00 AM CT) The silver market is holding up rather well in the face of a series of be
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:34 AM July soybeans traded 5 1/2 cents higher overnight. Malaysian palm oil was down about 1.1%. Outside markets were lower overnight and the dollar was higher.
Soybeans have traded higher so far this wee
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:33 AM July wheat 1 1/2 cents lower in overnight action. Outside markets were lower and the dollar was higher overnight.
Wheat traded in a very narrow range yesterday and was slightly lower overnight. Trad
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:32 AM Corn broke sharply yesterday and fell again overnight. Traders and analysts indicate that the weakness has been due to a change in the weather forecast for much of the Midwest, which is expected to r
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