- Corn falls for second session as USDA projects supplies above expectations
- Chicago wheat slides in the wake of corn
- Soybeans ease after strong rally in prices
By Naveen Thukral and Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Chicago corn futures fell more than 1% on Wednesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture pegged its end-of-season inventory estimates above market expectations.
Soybeans slid for the first time in three sessions, while wheat extended the previous session’s fall.
“The USDA report was bearish for corn prices,” said one Singapore-based grains trader. “The market was expecting a bigger reduction in corn stocks.”
The most-active corn contract on the Chicago Board of Trade was down 1.1% at $5.50 a bushel by 1156 GMT, after climbing to its highest level since June 2013 in the last session before paring its gains.
Soybeans fell 0.5% to $13.95¼ a bushel, after firming around 1% in the previous session when prices hit a Jan. 19 high of $14.09½ a bushel.
Wheat lost 1.2% at $6.41½ a bushel in the wake of corn, after closing down 1% on Tuesday.
The USDA only minimally trimmed its U.S. end-of-season stocks outlook and raised its export forecast by less than many traders had anticipated following record-large sales to China.
“Anyone who had betted that the latest forecasts from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) would show another dramatic tightening of the grains and oilseeds markets, which were already in short supply, was disappointed yesterday,” Commerzbank said in a note.
The agency projected U.S. corn ending stocks for the 2020/21 marketing year at 1.502 billion bushels and soybean ending stocks at 120 million bushels, both down from January.
Analysts polled by Reuters had expected corn ending stocks of 1.392 billion and soy ending stocks of 123 million. Commodity funds were net buyers of CBOT soybean, soymeal, and soy oil futures contracts on Tuesday and net sellers of corn and wheat, traders said.
Prices at 1156 GMT Last Change Pct End Ytd Move 2020 Pct Move CBOT wheat 641.50 -8.00 -1.23 640.50 0.16 CBOT corn 550.00 -6.25 -1.12 484.00 13.64 CBOT soy 1395.25 -6.50 -0.46 1311.00 6.43 Paris wheat 223.50 -0.25 -0.11 213.25 4.81 Paris maize 217.25 -0.25 -0.11 219.00 -0.80 Paris rapeseed 446.25 0.00 0.00 418.25 6.69 WTI crude oil 58.72 0.36 0.62 48.52 21.02 Euro/dlr 1.21 0.00 0.06 1.2213 -0.73 Most active contracts - Wheat, corn and soy US cents/bushel, Paris futures in euros per tonne (Reporting by Naveen Thukral in Singapore and Sybille de La Hamaide in Paris. Editing by Amy Caren Daniel and Bernadette Baum.)
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