Friday, 18 May

Today's Articles

• Closing Futures Prices

  By WPI Staff
  Today's grain and oilseed prices.
  
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• Market Commentary

  By Mike Krueger
  U.S. equity markets have been fixated all week with the Facebook IPO that took place this morning. It was huge success with the highest ever retail demand for the stock. More than 82 million shares traded in the first 30 seconds, another tribute to the powers of electronic trading.
  
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• Southeast Europe Regional Analysis

  By WPI Staff
  The Black Sea milling wheat market is firmer in sympathy with the rally in Chicago and Matif. However, the rise of the physical market in the Black Sea is much smaller than the impressive move of the futures markets.
  
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  Tags: In-Country Analysis

• Weather Trumps Greece and Facebook

  By Mike Krueger
  Grain and oilseed markets have been all about the weather the past few days, and that has trumped weakness over the last couple of weeks caused by more concerns about what will finally happen in Greece and how that might spill over into other world markets.
  
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  Tags: Analysis

• Policy Roundup

  By Gary Blumenthal
  If meat producers treated their animals the way animal rights campaigners at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) treat farmers, it would be considered harassment. The pro-vegan organization gets nowhere at USDA with its complaints, so it is running to a different federal agency.
  
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  Tags: Policy

• House Farm Bill Hearings on Commodity Programs

  By Dave Juday
  For the past two days, the House Ag Committee Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management has held hearings on Title I of the farm bill. A total of 18 witnesses testified before the committee.
  
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  Tags: Policy

• Next Week

  By WPI Staff
  See what USDA has on its calendar next week.
  
  

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