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2 Oct 2015
DTN Closing Livestock Comment 10/02 15:40 Beef Futures Close Tough Week With Short-Covering Gains Live and feeder cattle futures closed significantly higher, supported by short covering and the correction of oversold charts. Lean hog contracts settled with solid progress thanks to generally friendly fundamentals that seem to be trumping seasonal be...
2 Oct 2015
DTN Closing Grain Comments 10/02 14:00 Grains Mostly Lower, Joaquin Brings Rain After a day of trading both sides of the market, grains faded at the end and closed mostly lower. Winter wheat planting should have made good progress this week and a threat of heavy rain from Hurricane Joaquin will be watched this weekend, but it is not expected to hur...
2 Oct 2015
DTN Midday Livestock Comments 10/02 11:59 Livestock Futures Draw Additional Attention Friday Strong triple-digit gains are holding midday through the entire livestock market as the focus on end-of-week position taking and potential longer-term stability is motivating traders. Trade volume is expected to remain slow through the remainder of the sess...
2 Oct 2015
DTN Midday Grain Comments 10/02 11:31 Grains Quiet at Midday Grain trade holding around unchanged at midday. By David Fiala DTN Contributing Analyst General Comments The U.S. stock markets are lower with the Dow futures down 80 points. The interest rate products are mixed. The dollar index is 60 points lower. Energies are lower with crude 0.60 lowe...
2 Oct 2015
USDA MARKET NEWS--AFTERNOON CATTLE REPORT 10/02/15 VOLUME USDA TOTAL RANGE DTN PRACTICAL RANGE DTN WT AVG KANSAS CONFIRMED CASH SALES - TODAY: 635 WEEK T0 DATE: 9,243 STEERS 192 120.00-120.00 120.00-120.00 120.00 HEIFERS 443 120.00-120.00 120.00-120.00 120.00 NEBRASKA CONFIRMED CASH SALES - TODAY: 1,956 WEEK TO DATE: 15,735 STEERS 66 184.00-184.00 ...