THE OPEN Nov beans: 30 lower Dec meal: 5.90 lower Dec soyoil: 159 pts lower Dec corn: 14 3/4 lower Dec wheat: 12 1/4 lower Prices opened as called and worked lower on weaker technical considerations with more downside follow-through as sell-stops were triggered in corn, wheat, and beans. Oilshare worked higher as meal prices fell. Losses in soyoil values were more moderate, and lower prices found more buyers and a mid-session comeback on bargain hunting and short-covering. SOY
The major feature of trade for the soy complex was that of higher oilshare as meal prices fell further based on fundamentals and chart based technical selling activity. The downtrend on the meal chart re...
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