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Agriculture futures trade lower on CBOT (AP via Yahoo! News) Agriculture futures declined in early trading Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade.
Agriculture futures end lower in Chicago (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Agriculture futures finished lower Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for December delivery fell 14.75 cents to $8.11 a bushel; December corn fell 8.25 cents to $5.8775 a bushel; December oats dropped 8.5 cents to $3.60 a bushel; and November soybeans sank 24 cents to $13.24 a bushel.
Food Futures: Corn contract trades lower on rainfall forecasts, dollar's gains (Market Watch) Corn futures succumb to selling pressure amid speculation that rainfall in the Corn Belt will boost production and as the U.S. dollar gains ground, exerting downward pressure on dollar-denominated commodities.
Futures point to a slightly weaker Wall Street start (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Futures for the Dow Jones industrial average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 traded down about 0.1 percent on Thursday, pointing to a slightly weaker start on Wall Street after a positive close on Wednesday.
Agriculture futures trade lower on CBOT (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Agriculture futures declined in early trading Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for December delivery fell 23.75 cents to $8.02 a bushel; December corn fell 11.5 cents to $5.845 a bushel; December oats fell 6.5 cents to $3.62 a bushel; November soybeans fell 29 cents to $13.19 a bushel.
U.S. Stock Futures Rise After Economic Growth Tops Forecasts (Bloomberg.com) Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock-index futures climbed, led by financial companies and commodity producers, after the economy grew more than estimated in the second quarter.
Futures Sluggish Ahead of Employment Data (Fox News) Weighed down by the price of crude oil, stock futures signaled a flat open on Thursday ahead of a pair of key economic reports on GDP and weekly jobless claims.
Futures rise on stronger-than-expected GDP data (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Stock index futures rose on Thursday on optimism about the economy after the government's higher-than-expected revision to growth in gross domestic product for the second quarter.
Agriculture futures end lower in Chicago (AP via Yahoo! News) Agriculture futures finished lower Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade.
Futures slip as oil rises (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Stock index futures fell on Thursday as the price of oil rose for a fourth day, overshadowing optimism among financial companies about the largest U.S. mortgage finance company Fannie Mae .
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