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While no doubt an overused metaphor, we often refer to market action as a battle being waged between bulls and bears.  Granted, the casualties are most often of a financial type, not physical, and as long as we have semi-free and open markets, a victory for either camp will at…

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While no doubt an overused metaphor, we often refer to market action as a battle being waged between bulls and bears.  Granted, the casualties are most often of a financial type, not physical, and as long as we have semi-free and open markets, a victory for either camp will at…

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Almost like crossing the International Date Line that sits out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, grain and soy markets have now passed through that psychological line in the growing season marked on the calendar by the 4th of July.  Of course, we all know or should at least…

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Almost like crossing the International Date Line that sits out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, grain and soy markets have now passed through that psychological line in the growing season marked on the calendar by the 4th of July.  Of course, we all know or should at least…

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Weekly Commentary

JULY 3, 2021 Better late than never! After missing economists and Wall Street expectations for the past few months, we finally posted an encouraging jobs number during June.  The US economy created 850,000 new jobs for the month, compared with 589,000 in May and just 269,000 in April. Not only…

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