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...Russia’s decision on Saturday shook global markets, pushing up wheat prices....
...However, North Dakota is also likely to be hit by the tariff tit-for-tat because of its construction machinery and wheat farming industries, according to Brookings....
...Dennis Slater, president of the Association of Equipment Managers, highlighted the threat to US exports....
...Robinson and Dennis Miller Bunker attempted Impressionist versions of American rural landscapes....
...Corn and wheat jumped around 1 percent with rising expectations of global economic stimulus measures underpinning the commodity markets, including oil and metals....
...Before then, malt whisky was sold wholesale to be mixed with cheaper “grain” whisky (made out of wheat), and turned into blends....
...Index investors fade from radar In 2008, as prices of commodities from wheat to petrol were surging, an obscure hedge fund manager named Michael Masters made a splash in Washington, writes Gregory Meyer...
...Its only entrance gives on to a long and narrow waiting room with a spine of wooden benches set back to back and two-tone walls on either side – wheat-coloured to the thigh and yellow from there up....
...The Aussie dollar was hit by concerns over the costs to production in the state, a region important for exports of wheat and coal....
...“Wheat for us is a big commodity, which is up 60 per cent in price, but our bread prices to our customers are at five-year lows....
...As Dennis Gartman, of the Gartman Letter, noted in his Thursday report most of the market is still trying to ascertain what it means and what the longstanding implications may be: Finally, regarding grains...
...Grain markets were plunging “as Gartman wrote”, while soybeans traded limit down and wheat and corn followed suit....
...Agricultural commodities were also strong, with soyabean up 3 per cent and corn and wheat rising more than 2.5 per cent....
...“The good news is that the situation has got so dark that we have almost reached capitulation and it will become easier to sort the wheat from the chaff in terms of assets,” said Justin Urquhart Stewart,...
...input prices soared a substantially stronger-than-expected 2.6 per cent month on month and 18.9 per cent year on year as the weaker pound added to the upward pressures from high oil prices and a surge in wheat...
...Agricultural commodities were mixed, with wheat prices falling to profit-taking, while cocoa corrected Wednesday’s sharp fall by moving higher....
...Commodity markets contributed to the move in bond yields as inflationary fears were sparked by a jump in oil and higher wheat and corn prices....
...Wheat prices fell 3.8 per cent to 912¾ cents a bushel this week as profits were taken after driving through $10 a bushel for the first time last week....
...Hungary’s agriculture ministry said on Thursday its wheat harvest was down more than 8 per cent on the previous year....
...There, in Heathrow terminal four, waiting in line for the British Airways security machine to X-ray his bags, was none other than democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich....
...Yesterday, wheat futures recovered 2¾ cents to $4.8575 a bushel....
...He is a supremely confident public speaker who is close to Dennis Hastert of Illinois, the House of Representatives speaker....
...Dennis McStay, Berkshire, UK Jim Rogers: Perhaps something like bird flu or a sudden unexpected war or a major financial collapse, but these would only be temporary setbacks....
...US grain traders pushed December wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade up by 7.5 cents to $3.3275 a bushel on fears for wheat export facilities in Texas....
...Rita also caused jitters among grain traders as many US wheat export terminals are based in Texas. Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade rose 3 per cent this week to $3.33 a bushel....
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