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Livestock Market Commentary: Virginia McGathey

Friday's Closing Grain and Livestock Futures Prices.

May corn closed at $3.64 and 1/4, up 6 and 3/4 cents
May soybeans closed at $9.46, down 17 cents
May soybean meal closed at $308.40, down $6.50
May soybean oil closed at 31.78, down 23 points
May wheat closed at $4.26 and 1/2, up 5 and 1/2 cents
Apr. live cattle closed at $119.95, down 5 cents
Apr. lean hogs closed at $65.67, up 5 cents
May crude oil closed at $50.60, up 25 cents
May cotton closed at 73.33, up 110 points
May rice closed at $9.89 and 1/2, up 5 cents
Apr. Class III milk closed at $15.31, down 2 cents
Apr. gold closed at $1,247.30, up $2.30
Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 20,663.22, down 65.27 points

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Virginia McGathey, McGathey Commodities



 

 


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