Hedgepoint Global News Today

By Kirk Maltais -Wheat for March delivery rose 3.7% to $5.81 1/4 a bushel, on the Chicago Board of Trade on Tuesday, with the long-awaited short covering expected by the market seeming to...

By Kirk Maltais -- Wheat for March delivery rose 1% to $6.00 3/4 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade on Wednesday, showing short covering ahead of reports from the USDA and Statistics...

By Paulo Trevisani -- Soybeans for March delivery rose 1.3% to $12.39 1/2 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade on Tuesday, extending gains fueled by uncertainty around South American...

By Kirk Maltais --Wheat for March delivery rose 1.3% to $5.93 1/4 a bushel, on the Chicago Board of Trade on Friday, with traders absorbing building indications of a tighter supply/demand...

By Kirk Maltais --Corn for March delivery fell 2% to $4.48 1/2 a bushel, on the Chicago Board of Trade on Friday, tumbling after the USDA forecast higher-than-expected production and...

By Kirk Maltais --Corn for December delivery fell 0.7% to $4.89 3/4 a bushel, on the Chicago Board of Trade on Monday, finishing down after a choppy day as traders attempted to prepare for...

For consumers fighting rampant food inflation, the plunging sugar prices will be a respite. The global sugar shortage had caused prices of the item to rise up to an 11-year-high.

By Kirk Maltais --Wheat for December delivery fell 1.9% to $5.84 1/2 a bushel, on the Chicago Board of Trade on Monday, with Russias dropping export price and general caution ahead of...

By Kirk Maltais --Corn for December delivery fell 2.1%, to $5.31 3/4 a bushel, on the Chicago Board of Trade on Friday, with traders selling ahead of what is expected to be a wetter weekend...

Producers of metals and other raw materials rose ahead of the holiday weekend. "U.S. stocks are ready for a long weekend as traders are exhausted from a week...