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ICE November 2022 canola (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, purple and black lines). (Barchart)
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ICE weekly outlook: Rising canola prices hit a one-day thud

"There's a day where we need to take a pause"

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MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola rose like Icarus over the past few weeks, but just like that Greek mythological figure, it flew too high, only to come back down to Earth. After the November canola contract rose in seven of its last eight sessions — in the middle of harvest, no less — and gained […] Read more
ICE November 2022 canola (candlesticks) with 20-day moving average (yellow line, right column) and NYMEX November 2022 West Texas intermediate crude (black line, left column). (Barchart)
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ICE weekly outlook: Canola shouldn’t fall hard

Loonie keeping oilseed off sharper decline

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MarketsFarm — As Malaysian palm oil futures tumbled to 20-year lows during the week of Sept. 26, they have put a lot of pressure on canola prices, analyst Errol Anderson of ProMarket Communications in Calgary said. However, he said, the Canadian dollar has been the backstop that kept the oilseed from falling with palm oil. […] Read more
ICE November 2022 canola (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)
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ICE weekly outlook: Seasonal upturn possible for canola

'Good underlying support' seen in futures

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MarketsFarm — ICE Futures canola contracts may soon be due for a seasonal turn higher as harvest pressure subsides and prices should be looking very attractive to end users. However, uncertain outside influences will still dictate the overall direction. “The field certainly gets muddied by issues of geopolitics,” said MarketsFarm analyst Mike Jubinville, pointing to […] Read more
ICE Futures November 2022 canola (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)
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ICE weekly outlook: Crush margins guiding canola demand

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MarketsFarm — Enormous canola crush margins will lead to increased demand for the Canadian oilseed, according to MarketsFarm’s director of markets and weather Bruce Burnett. As of Tuesday, the nearby November-October margins were estimated at $215.51 per tonne, while the same position for November-October 2023 now stands at $124.48/tonne. This time last year their margins […] Read more
(File photo by Dave Bedard)
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ICE weekly outlook: Canola, soy crush margins up sharply

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MarketsFarm — As canola and other ag commodities made strong gains over the last week, there was something a little strange about them, according to Winnipeg-based trader Bill Craddock. Crush margins, he said, follow prices for edible oils and meal, as well as the Canadian dollar. It’s all part of the formula used to calculate […] Read more
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Canadian canola crush sets new monthly record

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MarketsFarm — Canadian oilseed crushers set a new monthly record for processing canola in December 2019, crushing 899,301 tonnes of the crop during the month, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada. The crush pace was up by 70,000 tonnes from November and compares with the previous record of 882,301 tonnes, set just two […] Read more
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Solid crush more than makes up for slow canola exports

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MarketsFarm — Canada’s ongoing diplomatic dispute with China may be slowing canola exports, but the strong pace of the domestic crush is more than making up for any shortfall in international business. The Canadian Grain Commission reported total domestic disappearance of canola during the crop-year-to-date of just over 4.8 million tonnes, as of Sunday (Jan. […] Read more

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