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• China reportedly turns down U.S. corn shipment: [2010 Nov 29 10:16 AM] Genetically altered corn shipped from the U.S. earlier this fall to China and being held in a port warehouse will leave the country by the end of the year because the commodity falls short of Chinese standards. Read more
• Wheat prices hinging on Korean developments: [2010 Nov 23 04:22 PM] Fears about escalating tensions between North and South Korea sent the price of wheat futures plunging the most in the past seven days. Read more
• Rising commodity prices strain corporate supply chains: [2010 Nov 23 02:34 PM] The rising price of industrial and agricultural commodity futures is straining the ability of many firms to maintain their margins without raising prices.  Read more
• Soybean prices rise amidst concerns in South America: [2010 Nov 23 10:40 AM] Following ominously dry weather in two South American countries, prices for soybeans rose for the second-straight day in Chicago. Read more
• Egypt demand drives up wheat prices: [2010 Nov 22 12:45 PM] Wheat futures gained on Monday, as Egypt - a major wheat importer that heavily subsidizes the grain for its poorer population - looks likely to turn to the United States for a significant portion of its supplies. Read more
• Farm commodities will be outperformed by precious metals, head says: [2010 Nov 22 11:40 AM] Prices for farm commodities will be trumped by precious metals' increasing values next year, according to the head of commodities research at Societe Generale. Read more
• China to guarantee critical grain supplies: [2010 Nov 19 12:47 PM] With each passing week, it seems that China's economic policy takes on a greater role in determining the momentum of the global commodities futures, equity futures and currency futures markets. Read more
• UN warns of high global food prices: [2010 Nov 18 12:30 AM] Shortages in major producing nations, export quotas and a shift to more-profitable crops are all pushing up the price of key food commodities - and that's raised the cost of importing food for nations around the world. The consequences, warns the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization, could be severe. Read more
• Ireland and China put the brakes on commodity rally: [2010 Nov 16 05:30 PM] Global commodity futures markets experienced a major correction over the last five days of trading, as the bullish news from Benjamin Bernanke and the Federal Reserve gave way to much more bearish sentiment from the People's Bank of China and Ireland.  Read more
• Unspecified Chinese anti-inflation measures spook grain markets: [2010 Nov 16 11:43 AM] Grain futures dropped sharply today in Chicago, as traders were spooked by Chinese premier Wen Jiabao's announcement that the world's largest country would take unspecified measures to combat speculation in commodities and inflation. Read more
• China rate speculation spooks commodity futures: [2010 Nov 12 10:38 AM] The Federal Reserve giveth, and the People's Bank of China taketh away. Read more
• Commodity prices: inflation, or supply and demand?: [2010 Nov 09 02:11 PM] A glance at a commodity futures chart shows a dramatic shift of momentum in the last few months. Every category has seen massive jumps, from cotton to sugar to silver. Crude oil futures appear to be making another bullish run up towards $100 per barrel, while gold futures have decisively broken the $1,400-per-troy-ounce barrier. Read more
• Corn, wheat futures rise ahead of USDA report: [2010 Nov 08 12:02 PM] Most commodity futures brokers and traders appear to be betting that tomorrow's report from the United States Department of Agriculture will show a decline in U.S. corn production and in global wheat inventories.  Read more
• Quantitative easing arrives with whimper, not with a bang: [2010 Nov 03 02:31 PM] For months, every trade and every movement in commodities futures, stock index futures, bonds, currency futures and emerging markets has been tied by analysts and pundits to the arrival of quantitative easing.  Read more
• Wheat, corn fluctuate as supply picture worsens: [2010 Nov 02 08:14 AM] Supply concerns have hung over the grain futures market this year, repeatedly driving commodity futures brokers and traders to push the prices of key foodstuffs higher.  Read more