The U.S. corn and soybean crop conditions drop for a third week in a row, according to the USDA Monday. In its Crop Progress Report, the USDA rated the U.S. corn crop as 68% good/excellent vs. 71% a week ago and 75% a year ago. About 4% ...
The U.S. soybean crop is having the darndest time getting planted, while corn conditions sputter along, according to the USDA. In its weekly Crop Progress Report, the USDA rated soybean planting at 87% complete, behind a 90% five-year ...
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U.S. soybean planting pace falls behind the five-year average, while the young corn crop condition rating stays idle for the week, according to the USDA. In its weekly Crop Progress Report, the USDA pegged the U.S. corn crop as 91% ...
Tags: Soybean, Agriculture
Russian steel producer Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has announced that it has opened a representative office in Shanghai to establish and strengthen relationships with companies in the world's second-largest economy. The new ...
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US commercial crude stocks fell 10.3 million barrels to 390.69 million barrels for the reporting week ended May 16, American Petroleum Institute data showed Tuesday. The draw is far larger than analysts had expected. A Platts survey of ...
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March CBOT corn futures retreated Tuesday amid speculation that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will raise its production estimate for the 2013-2014 crop that was harvested in the fall, in a report due out this Friday. Technically, ...
Tags: USDA, Bearish for Corn
Rhodium prices resumed their decline this week, falling nearly $20 per day according to some sources, as speculative investors began liquidating their long positions ahead of the year's end. The Platts New York Dealer rhodium price range ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Rhodium
A Chicago-based company that runs derivatives exchanges said Friday it was the victim of a July cyber attack that compromised customer information. CME Group, which runs four exchanges, said in a statement that information belonging to ...
Trading ranges for rhodium narrowed modestly this week on increased activity from investment banks and buying interest from industrial consumers in East Asia, traders and other market participants said Friday. The Platts New York Dealer ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
On October 21, the first electronic trading center for renewable resources (mainly steel scrap) in the southwest of China officially began trading in Chongqing, as announced by local media sources. The total value of trading activity on the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, renewable resources, steel scrap
Any business doesna€ t grow with a lavishing office and presentable staff. It grows better with a right idea and its proper execution. But then how as an individual will we know as to what is the right decision to be taken in order to ...
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The Shanghai Steel Trading Center was established in Baoshan District in the morning of May 31, with steel products online sales, supplies procurement, circulation processing and supply chain financing as its main function. The center will ...
Petroleum futures were slightly bearish Monday, with ICE July Brent settling 2 cents lower at $102.62/barrel. Volumes were low and markets rangebound for the most part because of holidays on both sides of the Atlantic. Electronic trading ...
Oil futures closed out the week in higher territory Friday, boosted by a strong equities performance even as the US Dollar Index climbed to a 34-month high. NYMEX June crude settled 86 cents higher at $96.02/b, after ranging from a low of ...
Tags: Oil Futures, Strong Equities
The oil complex settled lower Monday on bearish China data and increased OPEC production, amid weak fundamentals in the US. NYMEX June crude settled 87 cents lower at $95.17/barrel, having traded in a $94.47-$95.68/b range throughout the ...
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