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Is the bull party finally over for the U.S. Dollar?  For now, the answer to that question is a definite, well, maybe?  After intervention by the Bank of England to try and prop up the British Pound, not to mention previous efforts by the Bank of Japan to support the…

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Jack Frost returned to the upper reaches of the Midwest and the Northern Plains overnight and may have potentially damaged some of the latest planted crops in those regions.  When it comes to an early freeze, the issues created are often more about quality than quantity, but one has to…

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We are not quite sure which child or children had been misbehaving, but ma and pa commodity took all the kids out behind the woodshed for a lashing yesterday.  While prices are on the mend this morning, the break has now carried the GSCI down to the lowest level since…

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Whoever coined the phrase, no news is good news, did not have the grain and soy markets in mind. We have begun this final trading week of September under uniform pressure as the expanding harvest begins to weigh on price levels. Here in Northern Illinois, there were a number of…

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Weekly Commentary

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022 Well, what have we learned this week?  We learned that despite the best effort of Republicans in Great Britain, not to be confused with the GOP here at home, to do away with the monarchy, much of that nation still respects and clings to their system of…

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