CME live cattle futures hit one-week highs on firm cash markets
By Julie Ingwersen
CHICAGO, July 17 (Reuters) -Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live cattle futures hit their highest levels in more than a week on Wednesday, supported by firm cash cattle markets, traders said.
CME August live cattle futures LCQ24 settled up 1.600 cents at 184.275 cents per pound. Earlier in the session, the contract touched 184.575 cents, its highest since July 9.
Most-active October LCV24 ended 1.050 cents higher at 185.575 cents a pound.
Market-ready cattle traded lightly in Texas and Kansas cash markets at $188 per hundredweight (cwt), traders said, roughly steady with last week's trades and higher than the equivalent front-month futures price of about $184 per cwt.
"The discounts in the futures (versus cash) are too much," said Don Roose, president of Iowa-based U.S. Commodities.
Still, softening wholesale beef prices kept a lid on the futures market. Prices for choice cuts of beef fell $1.10 on Wednesday afternoon to $318.16 per cwt, the lowest reading since June 12, while select cuts dropped $3.15 at $298.44 per cwt, the lowest since May 17, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
CME feeder cattle futures were flat on Wednesday, with the most-active August FCQ24 contract falling 0.075 cent to end at 258.550 cents per pound.
Ahead of Friday's monthly USDA Cattle on Feed report, analysts surveyed by Reuters on average expect the government to report an 8.3% drop in June cattle marketing year-on-year. June feedlot placements were seen down 2.8% from a year ago, while the average analyst estimate for the number of cattle in U.S. feedlots, as of July 1, was 11.327 million head, up 1.1% from a year ago.
CME hog futures firmed for the fourth time in the last five sessions as the front two contracts extended their rebound from life-of-contract lows set last week. August lean hog futures LHQ24 settled up 0.375 cent at 91.650 cents per pound and October hogs LHV24 rose 1.475 cents to finish at 73.675 cents.
The USDA priced the pork carcass cutout on Wednesday afternoon at $99.32 per cwt, down $1.55 from Tuesday.
Reporting by Julie Ingwersen; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips
免責聲明: XM Group提供線上交易平台的登入和執行服務，允許個人查看和/或使用網站所提供的內容，但不進行任何更改或擴展其服務和訪問權限，並受以下條款與條例約束：（i）條款與條例；（ii）風險提示；（iii）完全免責聲明。網站內部所提供的所有資訊，僅限於一般資訊用途。請注意，我們所有的線上交易平台內容並不構成，也不被視為進入金融市場交易的邀約或邀請 。金融市場交易會對您的投資帶來重大風險。
所有缐上交易平台所發佈的資料，僅適用於教育/資訊類用途，不包含也不應被視爲適用於金融、投資稅或交易相關諮詢和建議，或是交易價格紀錄，或是任何金融商品或非應邀途徑的金融相關優惠的交易邀約或邀請。
本網站的所有XM和第三方所提供的内容，包括意見、新聞、研究、分析、價格其他資訊和第三方網站鏈接，皆爲‘按原狀’，並作爲一般市場評論所提供，而非投資建議。請理解和接受，所有被歸類為投資研究範圍的相關内容，並非爲了促進投資研究獨立性，而根據法律要求所編寫，而是被視爲符合營銷傳播相關法律與法規所編寫的内容。請確保您已詳讀並完全理解我們的非獨立投資研究提示和風險提示資訊，相關詳情請點擊 這裡查看。
