Daily Market Wire – May 11, 2023

US farm markets were mixed on Wednesday.

Corn prices bounced back 1.58%.

Soybean prices continued to slide lower falling by 0.72%, with soymeal moving modestly higher, up 0.12%, while soyoil tumbled by 1.87% lower.

Wheat prices were mixed as Chicago SRW dropped 0.35%, Kansas City HRW slid 012%, while MGEX spring wheat lifted 0.21%.

In Europe, grain prices extended their losses, while rapeseed continued to rise.

Oil prices fell by more than 1%, after US data pointed to further rate hikes.

The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index in London gained 2.6% on robust capesize, supramax demand.

On Wall Street, US stock indexes settled mixed, as favorable CPI report sparked a rally in technology stocks.

The DXY fell by -0.13%, as the weaker-than-expected U.S. Apr CPI report knocked T-note yields lower, while the euro rose on hawkish ECB comments.

Notably, Chicago wheat July contract was down 2.2c/bu to 641.2c/bu;

Kansas wheat Jul contract was down 1c/bu to 855.2c/bu;

Minneapolis wheat Jul contract was up 1.6c/bu to 849.4c/bu;

MATIF wheat Sep contract, was down €1.75/t to €232.25/t;

BlackSea wheat June contract was down $0.5/t to $270.75/t;

ASX wheat Jul contract, was down A$2.7 to A$372.30/t;

US DWI Cash (durumwheat index) was down 1.19c/bu to 809.55c/bu;

1CWAD (Canadian durum) avg reg was up C$0.03/t to C$411.64/t;

EDW (EU durum) Sep contract, was up €1.25/t to €352/t;

Chicago corn Jul was up 9.2c/bu to 594c/bu;

MATIF corn Jun, was down €0.5/t to €227.75/t;

Soybeans Jul contract down 10.2c/bu to 1404c/bu;

Winnipeg canola Jul was down C$3.4/t to C$734.7/t;

MATIF rapeseed Aug contract, was up 1.5/t to €435.75/t;

Brent crude Jul was down US$1.03 per barrel to $76.41;

WTI crude Jun was down US$1.15 per barrel to $72.56;

BDI Baltic Dry Index was up 42 points to 1.640;

Dow Jones was down 30.48 points to 33.531,33;

S&P 500 was up 18.47 points to 4.137,64;

NASDAQ Composite up 126.89 points to 12.306,44;

US dollar index (Jun ’23) was down 0.130 to 101.269;

AUD/USD firmer at US$0.6779;

USD/CAD weaker at $1.3371;

EUR/USD firmer at $1.0980;

USD/RUB weaker at ₽76.1059.