US wheats gained a bit on Friday, while corn and oilseeds eased.
EU grains were mostly unchanged, while rapeseed fell in the wake of canola and soybean down. The Dollar Index weakened. Crude oil prices gained as did the major three indexes on Wall Street. The Euro was firmer vs US dollar.
Notably, ASX wheat March was down A$1/t to A$375/t;
Chicago wheat Mar contract was up US7 cents to 741.4c/bu;
Kansas wheat Mar contract was up 16c/bu to 848c/bu;
Minneapolis wheat Mar contract up 8.6c/bu to 912.6c/bu;
MATIF wheat Mar contract was unchanged to €284.75/t;
Black Sea wheat Mar contract was up $1/t to $308.5/t;
US DWI Cash (durum wheat index) was down 7.39c/bu to 914.58c/bu;
1CWAD (Canadian durum) avg reg was down C$3.6/t to C$471.6/t;
EDW (EU durum) March contract was unchanged to €481/t;
Chicago corn Mar contract down 1c/bu to 676.2c/bu;
Soybeans Mar contract down 8.2c/bu to 1506.4c/bu;
MATIF corn Mar contract was unchanged to €278/t;
Winnipeg canola Mar contract, was down C$13.8/t to C$812.9/t;
MATIF rapeseed Feb contract was down €3.75/t to €533/t;
Brent crude Mar was up US$1.47 per barrel to $87.63;
WTI crude Mar was up US$1.03 per barrel to $81.64;
BDI Baltic Dry Index was down 38 points to 763;
Dow Jones was up 330.93 points to 33.375,49;
S&P 500 was up 73.76 points to 3.972,61;
NASDAQ Composite up 288.17 points to 11.140,44;
US dollar index (Mar ’23) was down 0.050 to 101.781;
AUD/USD firmer at US$0.6966;
USD/CAD weaker at $1.3380;
EUR/USD firmer at $1.0855;
USD/RUB firmer at ₽68.8300.
