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6 May 2019
DTN Closing Livestock Comment 05/06 15:48 Trade War Talk Triggers Hog Market Meltdown Hog futures were locked limit down (-$3.00 per cwt) all day Monday and will trade with expanded limits Tuesday. The escalated trade war concerns weighed on cattle futures markets, too, but not to as great an extent. By Elaine Kub DTN Contributing Analyst GENERAL C...
6 May 2019
DTN Midday Livestock Comments 05/06 12:17 Livestock Under Pressure Cattle continue under pressure with triple-digit losses in feeder cattle while live cattle show double-digit declines in June while later contracts also show triple-digit losses. Spill-over selling from hogs is putting on the pressures as well as continued fund liquidation. Hogs hav...
6 May 2019
USDA MARKET NEWS--AFTERNOON CATTLE REPORT 05/06/19 VOLUME USDA TOTAL RANGE DTN PRACTICAL RANGE WT AVG KANSAS CONFIRMED CASH SALES - TODAY: 35 WEEK T0 DATE: 35 STEERS No reportable trade HEIFERS No reportable trade NEBRASKA CONFIRMED CASH SALES - TODAY: 0 WEEK TO DATE: 0 STEERS No reportable trade HEIFERS No reportable trade TEXAS CONFIRMED CASH SAL...
6 May 2019
DTN Early Word Opening Livestock 05/06 06:34 Tariff War May Escalate The cattle complex continued the fall on Friday as traders saw no reason to take profits on short positions into the weekend. Weak cash last week will set the tone this week as buyers will post lower bids. Despite lean hog futures being able to hold on Friday, the announcement by ...
3 May 2019
DTN Closing Livestock Comment 05/03 16:15 Hog Prices Frozen by Uncertainty Live and feeder cattle futures continued plummeting through the end of this week, driven by speculative traders' need to get out of massive net-long positions in a downward-trending market. Lean hog contracts, meanwhile, settled on a mixed basis with June ending Friday's ses...