THE OPEN Jan beans: 13 higher Dec meal: 4.00 higher Dec soyoil: 35 higher Dec corn: 4 higher Dec wheat: 8 higher The markets opened as called with profit-taking at the start of the session and into the first hour of active trade. Fund selling was into commercial pricing activity. The commercial short in beans is the largest it has been in years as prices move higher. End-users continue to be active on breaks keeping prices well bid from the start of the session. Wheat prices remained well bid over the $6.00 level but with funds all but even here prices remained in congestive trade. At 10:00 export inspections were as such: beans: 2,009,976 mt vs. 2,466,715 mt week ag...
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