Corn Starting Thursday with Fractional Gains

Barchart · 2d ago

Corn price action is just fractionally higher on Thursday morning. Futures faded back some of the Tuesday rally, posting Wednesday losses of 2 to 6 cents across most contracts. Open interest was up 8,943 contracts on Wednesday, mainly in the March contract. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price was down 6 cents at $4.63 1/4.

EIA data from this morning showed ethanol production in the week of October 1 at 1.053 million barrels per day, back up 46,000 bpd on the week. Ethanol stocks saw another seasonal drawdown of 122,000 barrels to 23.743 million barrels.

USDA will release Export Sales data on Thursday, with analysts surveyed by Reuters looking for between 0.6 and 1.7 MMT of corn sold in the week ending on October 1. 

Crop Production data will be updated on Friday, with traders surveyed by Bloomberg looking for yield to be trimmed be 0.7 bpa to 177.8 bpa, as production is seen 67 mbu lower at 15.733 bbu.

Several South Korean importers purchased a total of 324,000 MT of corn in tenders overnight.

Dec 26 Corn  closed at $5.02, down 6 cents, currently up 3/4 cent

Nearby Cash  was $4.63 1/4, down 6 cents,

Mar 27 Corn  closed at $5.17, down 5 1/4 cents, currently up 1/2 cent

May 27 Corn  closed at $5.24 1/4, down 4 3/4 cents, currently up 3/4 cent


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