Soy ends week on the rise in the US
The price of soybeans on the Chicago Grain Exchange recorded an increase of 4.00 cents on Friday (06.10) in the November/17 contract, closing at US$ 9.7225 per bushel. The other highlighted commodity maturities on the CBOT also closed the session with valuations between 4.00 and 4.25 points.
Soybean planting in 2017/18 in MT is 10 pp below 2016/17, says Imea
Soybean planting for the 2017/18 harvest in Mato Grosso, the main national producer of the oilseed, reached 6.27 percent of the area as of this Friday, an increase of 5.09 percentage points in the week, according to monitoring by the Instituto Mato-grossense of Agricultural Economics (Imea). Sowing this year is 10.22 percentage points below that recorded at the same time […]
Global investments may migrate from stocks to commodities
After more than four years of record highs, many international investors continue to avoid betting on commodities, due to the low remuneration of prices. More than that, these investors' money went from commodities to stocks. But a US consultancy suggests that what has been happening in recent years is likely to change.