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Argentina’s grain exports halt in strike against Macri

Buenos Aires | Argentina — A strike called by Argentina’s largest trade union federation in protest over President Mauricio Macri’s market-friendly economic policies brought the country to a standstill on Monday, freezing grains exports and halting banking and public transit. The CGT umbrella labour union demanded wage hikes to keep up with inflation rates running […] Read more







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China signals to state giants: ‘Buy American’ oil and grains

Singapore/Beijing | Reuters –– China will import record volumes of U.S. oil and is likely to ship more U.S. soy after Beijing signalled to state-run refiners and grains purchasers they should buy more to help ease tensions between the two top economies, trade sources said on Wednesday. China pledged at the weekend to increase imports […] Read more





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CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soy react fittingly to USDA reports

CNS Canada — Traders had a lot to sort through with two big U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports released Thursday, but at a glance the markets reacted accordingly, according to one trader. USDA on Thursday released its world agricultural supply and demand estimates (WASDE) and crop production reports. “The market reaction, I think, was […] Read more