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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cash prices propel CME hogs to one-year high

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs on Monday reached their highest level in almost a year as packers competed for supplies during the first full week of production after the New Year’s holiday, said traders. The February contract led the charge after investors bought that trading month and simultaneously sold deferred contracts. […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cash price optimism boosts CME live cattle

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle on Thursday reached a seven-week high, propelled by expectations for steady-to-higher cash prices by week’s end, said traders. Thursday’s wholesale beef price upswing, short-covering and year-end positioning furthered market advances, they said. December live cattle, which will expire on Friday, closed 2.525 cents/lb. higher at 124.55 […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets, Reuters, Weather

U.S. livestock: CME hogs ease from 10-month top on lower cash prices

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs on Wednesday slid from a 10-month high, weakened by profit-taking and less money paid by packers for slaughter-ready, or cash, hogs, said analysts. February closed 0.5 cent lower at 71.025 cents (all figures US$). April ended down 0.1 cent, at 75.275 cents. Processors need fewer animals […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle surge on beef demand, cash price hopes

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures finished higher on Tuesday, driven by strong wholesale beef values that generated cash price optimism for this week, said traders. Investors bought deferred months and simultaneously sold December futures before its Dec. 29 expiration. Fund buying contributed to market advances. December live cattle finished up […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle mostly lower after USDA report

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Chicago | Reuters — The bulk of Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts closed lower on Friday, pressured by the morning’s bearish U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) monthly Cattle on Feed report, said traders. USDA’s data showed more cattle than expected entered feedlots in November than a year ago, which analysts attributed to low-cost feed […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Consolidation lifts CME live cattle ahead of USDA report

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Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Thursday closed higher, after consolidation and short-covering ahead of Friday’s U.S. government cattle report helped the market recoup some recent losses, traders said. Analysts, on average, expect the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) monthly Cattle on Feed report at 11 a.m. CT to show […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Supply worries knock down CME feeder cattle

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder cattle sank on Wednesday to a four-month low, hit by a selloff in live cattle futures as well as expectations for increased supplies, said traders. “You’ve got this cattle report coming out on Friday, and everybody says placement numbers are going to be up,” said JRS Consulting […] Read more
(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Supply, demand worries pull hogs from four-month high

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures eased from a four-month top on Monday, pressured by uneasiness over burdensome supplies and tepid meat demand, said traders. Technical selling and futures’ premiums to CME’s hog index for Dec. 14 at 64.11 cents further weighed on the market, they said (all figures US$). February […] Read more

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