Corn, soy futures ease after short-covering wave
Corn and soy fall back after the previous days' short-covering rally
Wheat falls on lower corn prices and pressure from Black Sea exports
Updates w/ closing prices
By Heather Schlitz
CHICAGO, Sept 5 (Reuters) -Chicago corn and soybean futures fell on Thursday as large U.S. yield prospects continued to drive short covering from earlier this week, analysts said.
Wheat followed corn downward, while brisk exports from the Black Sea region continued to curb prices.
A lower dollar and concerns over damaging, dry U.S. Midwestern weather encouraged recent short-covering in grain markets where investors had built up big short positions.
However, commodity funds added new short positions on Thursday on theperception that cornand soy futures had become over-valued, traders said.
"The hedge funds have a bias to be short the market," said JoeDavis, broker at Futures International. "The market is fundamentally bearish with large crops here and in South America."
The most-active corn contract Cv1 on the Chicago Board of Trade settled down 2 cents to $4.10-3/4 per bushel, and soybeans Sv1 ended down 2 cents to $10.23-1/2 per bushel. CBOT wheat Wv1 lost 6 cents to $5.74-3/4 per bushel.
Despite a dry end to the U.S. growing season and drought in Brazil that may hamper early planting, corn and soybean markets are expected to be well supplied.
StoneX on Wednesday lowered its U.S. corn production estimate to 15.127 billion bushels from 15.207 billion and raised its estimate for U.S. soybean output to 4.575 billion bushels from 4.483 billion.
Soybean futures gained little support from news of fresh U.S. soybean export sales to China and unknown destinations.
Traders are awaiting next week's U.S. Department of Agriculture supply and demand report and September crop estimates before making big moves.
"We want to see something definitive before we jump in with both feet," said Jim Gerlach, president of A/C Trading.
Reporting by Heather Schlitz in Chicago; Additional reporting by Gus Trompiz in Paris and Peter Hobson in Canberra; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips, Mark Potter, Richard Chang and Mark Porter
Latest News
Disclaimer: The XM Group entities provide execution-only service and access to our Online Trading Facility, permitting a person to view and/or use the content available on or via the website, is not intended to change or expand on this, nor does it change or expand on this. Such access and use are always subject to: (i) Terms and Conditions; (ii) Risk Warnings; and (iii) Full Disclaimer. Such content is therefore provided as no more than general information. Particularly, please be aware that the contents of our Online Trading Facility are neither a solicitation, nor an offer to enter any transactions on the financial markets. Trading on any financial market involves a significant level of risk to your capital.
All material published on our Online Trading Facility is intended for educational/informational purposes only, and does not contain – nor should it be considered as containing – financial, investment tax or trading advice and recommendations; or a record of our trading prices; or an offer of, or solicitation for, a transaction in any financial instruments; or unsolicited financial promotions to you.
Any third-party content, as well as content prepared by XM, such as: opinions, news, research, analyses, prices and other information or links to third-party sites contained on this website are provided on an “as-is” basis, as general market commentary, and do not constitute investment advice. To the extent that any content is construed as investment research, you must note and accept that the content was not intended to and has not been prepared in accordance with legal requirements designed to promote the independence of investment research and as such, it would be considered as marketing communication under the relevant laws and regulations. Please ensure that you have read and understood our Notification on Non-Independent Investment. Research and Risk Warning concerning the foregoing information, which can be accessed here.
