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Market Commentary: Tenuous Nudges

Without a lot driving the direction of the market, today was like a bickering old couple where bulls and bears disagreed over nothing important. Trades could be found on both sides of unchanged as each side sees something in its favor.  Early expectations called for follow through on yesterday’s gains, but things turned bearish at the open. While soybeans and wheat held their own, corn faltered slightly. There is always pressure from harvest this time of year, though preventing any real casualties is a sense that weeks of dryness cannot be good for final yields. Indeed, the amount of open interest provides evidence of room for longs to re-enter the market.  Overall, the pitching back and forth involves some profit-taking,...

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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.

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