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Rice, corn bullish; soybeans, cotton searching for bottom

Watch price actions for crops such as cotton because of possibility for slide into 2016 lows.

Bobby Coats, Professor

June 26, 2017

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Bobby Coats and Bert Greenwalt, agricultural economists with the University of Arkansas and Arkansas State University, catch up at the Agricultural Council of Arkansas annual meeting in Little Rock.

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What to expect from the markets this week

Market “Near Term” Snap Shot:

  • 10-year Treasury Yield: Remains Bullish: We enter the week with the 10 Year US Treasury Yield slightly bullish with a potentially lower yield (trend presently remains bullish or lower yield)

  • S&P 500: Near term cautiously bullish  

  • Global Equities: Near term cautiously bullish

  • U.S. Dollar: Remains Bearish: For a period the dollar should have more weakness than strength.  

  • Oil $WTIC: Remains Bearish:

    • Complex, geopolitically charged market filled with price uncertainty

    • The immediate question: Will current price level hold for a period?

  • Commodity Index: This index should be in a bottoming process   

  • Corn: Correcting upside move before moving higher toward the $4.55 area

  • Wheat: Price potential to $5.51 remains a possibility

  • Soybeans: In search of a bottom at current levels or the $8.35 area   

  • Rice: Bullish bias remains

  • Cotton: Another important week for cotton. Prices need to hold current levels or otherwise consideration has to be given to revisiting the 2016 low around 55-cents   

In addition to the following “Expanded near Term Market Considerations Week Beginning June 26, 2017”

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This Week’s Select Summary Considerations:

  • 10-Year US Treasury Yield:

    • We enter the week with the 10 Year US Treasury Yield slightly bullish with a potentially lower yield (trend presently remains bullish or lower yield)

    • Demand, Economic Weakness, Event Risk Concerns, or Other Market Concerns/Factors will likely take yields lower to 2 or below before significant move higher

    • Near term the yield curve is flattening

  • US Dollar Index:

    • Remains Bearish: For a period the dollar should have more weakness than strength

    • Big Picture: The dollar has a bullish bias given global economic, social, political and military challenges

    • Unless Middle East, North Korean, European or other anomaly events start to dominate market participant decisions for a period, then we are still DEFINING a trading range 95 -104

  • CRB Index:

    • Near-term bottom possibly forming

    • Caution is advised since global economic uncertainties remain problematic

    • Bigger Picture: Though spastic global macro and growth forces in general remain supportive of the commodity sector

  • $WTIC Light Crude Oil:

    • Fundamentals have overridden OPEC verbal guidance and an array of other factors

    • Fundamentals and other factors now suggest consideration of a possible price move below $41

    • Saudi Arabia, OPEC, other oil producers and others have major role in limiting 2017 price downside

    • As always, remain focused on the bigger “Geopolitical Picture and Building Military Friction”

  • Soybeans:

    • In search of a bottom in the $9.06 area

    • A resumption of commodity index weakness, a likely function of fundamentals and Fiscal and Monetary Policy and Global Economic Uncertainties, could translate into a final price low at $8.35 or lower

  • Corn:

    • Correcting upside move before moving to new highs

    • Cautionary Note: Sustained oil price weakness could possibly be problematic for corn prices

  • Long Grain Rice:

    • Bullish bias remains

    • This is a highly complex market with an array of factors impacting price from 2016-2017 fundamentals; 2017 acreage, production and quality uncertainties; present underlying aggregate commodity sector dynamics; problematic global economic momentum, geopolitical uncertainties, and/or global agronomic outlook

  • Cotton:

    • Another important week for cotton. Prices need to hold current levels or otherwise consideration has to be given to revisiting the 2016 low around 55-cents

  • Wheat:

    • Price potential to $5.51 remains a possibility

  • SPY SPDR S&P 500 ETF:

    • Near term cautiously bullish

    • Allow price action to unfold

    • Larger trend remains up

  • QQQ NASDAQ Power Shares:

    • Near-term cautiously bullish

    • Momentum driven by a select few technology stocks

    • Allow price action to unfold

    • Trend remains up

  • EFA iShares ETF - Global Equities Excluding U.S. and Canada:

    • Cautiously bullish

    • Trend remains up

  • EEM iShares ETF, Emerging Market Equities:

    • Entering a cautionary period

    • Trend remains up

  1. Bobby Coats is a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Division of Agriculture, University of Arkansas System. E-mail: [email protected].

DISCLAIMER-FOR-EDUCATIONAL-PURPOSES

About the Author(s)

Bobby Coats

Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Arkansas System, Division of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service

Bobby Coats is a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Arkansas System, Division of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service.

E-mail: [email protected].

 

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