Market closes - June 3, 2014
Posted on Jun 3, 2014Cattle futures closed higher as boxed beef showed some strength today. Choice beef increased .23 to 232.66 and Select beef was up 2.37 to 223.85/cwt. Feeder cattle futures hit new contract highs.
Lean hog futures closed higher. The June LH contract was up for the first time in 8 trading days. July, August and October LH were up sharply as traders anticipate slaughter numbers will head lower pretty soon. Pork value is holding onto the gains recently found. FOB Plant Pork was up .54 to 118.78/cwt.
Corn Jly -7 458; Dec -4 454 (452-58) Bean Jly -19 1481; Sep -9 1273; Nov -8 1222 (1214-30) Meal Jly -6 500; Oct -4 401 Oil +4 3835 Wheat Jly -8 612 (611-24); Dec -9 645 KC -1 708; MGE -13 684 Oats -12 359 Rice -31 1455
LC Jun +65 13835; Oct +72 14375; Feb +32 14797 FC Aug +72 19830; Oct +37 19927; Mar +120 19290 LH Jun +47 11360; Jly +125 12230; Oct +125 10770 Milk Jun -14 2092; Jly -37 2041
US$ -.1%
Dow -21 16722 SP -1 1924 NAS -3 4234 Tran -68 8080 VIX +.29 11.87
WTI +37 10284 Brent unch 10883 Gas unch 295 NG unch 461 HO -1 287 Eth -4 229
Gold +1 1245 Slvr +6 1880
2-yr +.01 0.403% 5-yr +.05 1.64% 10yr +.065 2.60% 30yr +.06 3.44%
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