Wheat jumps 1% on global crop worries; soybeans hit one-month low
SINGAPORE, June 3 (Reuters) -Chicago wheat futures bounced back on Monday, rising almost 1% in early trade as worries over global supplies underpinned the market, which had climbed to a 10-month high last week.
Soybean slid to a one-month low, weighed down by U.S. planting progress and ample South American supplies.
FUNDAMENTALS
* The most-active wheat contract on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) Wv1 added 0.9% to $6.84-1/4 a bushel as of 0019 GMT, having climbed to its highest since late July at $7.20 a bushel last week.
* Soybeans Sv1 fell 0.3% to $12.02 a bushel, having slid to $12.01 earlier in the session, the weakest since May 3. Corn Cv1 edged 0.1% lower to $4.45-3/4 a bushel.
* Forecasts for a smaller Russian wheat harvest due to persistent drought and frost pushed prices to a 10-month high last week. However, prices eased at the end of the week on expectations of much-needed rains.
* The condition of French soft wheat continued to deteriorate last week as wet weather persisted in crop belts, with the share of the crop in good or excellent condition falling to the lowest level this growing season and remaining at a four-year low.
* Rainfall will likely be below normal in the western part of Argentina's agricultural heartland over the next three months, the country's National Weather Service said on Friday, forecasting normal to below-normal rainfall for the rest of the Pampas region.
* Still, rain in parched areas of Western and South Australia and more expected in coming days could add as much as a million tons to the country's wheat harvest, analysts said this week.
* U.S. farmers have made steady progress planting corn and soybeans between showers and the rain could help early growth of this year's crops.
* The U.S. soybean crush likely dropped in April to a seven-month low of 5.265 million short tons, or 175.5 million bushels, according to analysts surveyed by Reuters ahead of a monthly U.S. Department of Agriculture report due on Monday.
* Large speculators increased their net short position in CBOT corn futures in the week to May 28, regulatory data released on Friday showed.
* The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's weekly commitments of traders report also showed that noncommercial traders, a category that includes hedge funds, increased their net short position in CBOT wheat and trimmed their net short position in soybeans.
MARKET NEWS
* MSCI's global equities index staged an afternoon rebound on Friday as investors repositioned for month-end, while the dollar fell with Treasury yields as data showed a modest rise in U.S. inflation in April. MKTS/GLOB
DATA/EVENTS (GMT, May)
0145 China Caixin Mfg PMI Final
0750 France HCOB Manufacturing PMI
0755 Germany HCOB Manufacturing PMI
0800 EU HCOB Mfg Final PMI
0830 UK S&P Global Manufacturing PMI
1345 US S&P Global Mfg PMI Final
1400 US ISM Manufacturing PMI
Reporting by Naveen Thukral; Editing by Varun H K
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