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CBOT Corn Comes Alive

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We at Indiana Grain love a bull market in grains.

And that's exactly what we saw in corn on Wednesday, as the grain rallied in tandem with wheat and quickly prompted a flurry of short-covering.

Sep. corn closed up 13 1/2 cents to $3.76 1/4, while Dec. corn finished up 13 3/4 cents to $3.90 3/4.

Most traders concur that wheat was a major catalyst for the big upside move in corn.

As we covered here yesterday, there are lingering issues

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Motorola Publicly Embarrasses Apple

Motorola has slammed Apple with a full page ad in the New York Times mocking Steve Jobs, who pointed the finger at Apple's smartphone competitors during the Apple "antennagate" press conference held on July 16.

Motorola fired back on Wednesday but

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Wheat Futures Bounce Back on Weather Woes

Chicago wheat rebounded Tuesday on rekindled concerns that adverse weather in Europe and Russia would reduce crop potential and curb wheat output.

Soybean and corn continued to slip, pressured by bearish outside markets and improving weather cond

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Former Financial Regulators Gear Up for Lobbying

As the battle over toughened financial restrictions moves to a new front, the regulatory agencies that will create hundreds of new rules for the nation’s banks will face a lobbying blitz from companies intent on softening the blow. And many of the

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Ethanol to Get Another Look by the Feds

Senate leaders recognize they don't have the votes to pass climate change legislation with a carbon cap or renewable electricity standard before the August recess, and so the hope of passing a comprehensive energy bill this summer is gone. But Senate

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Atlas Commodity Markets Acquires Chicago Legend

Atlas Commodity Markets has announced another strategic hire for the grain market swap leader: John Harangody, most recently the Director of Commodity Products for CME Group, will head up Atlas's agriculture business.

"Having contributed to the de

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BP CEO Hayward to Step Down

Tony Hayward, the public face of BP's unfortunate efforts to contain the Gulf oil spill, "will step down as chief executive in October and be offered a job with the company's joint venture in Russia," a source told the AP on Monday.

BP has had a p

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Grains Decline to Start the Week

Look out below.

Grains have fallen to kick off a fresh week of trading as the month of July winds to a close.

As reported by Bloomberg, corn touched its lowest price in more than three weeks, as soybeans and wheat similarly declined "on specula

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15 Million Tons of Corn Going to China?

We at Indiana Grain love corn.

But apparently not as much as the Chinese do.

In a new report out today from Bloomberg, China may import as much as 15 million tons of corn by 2015 as demand outstrips local supply and the country enters a “new

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CFTC Gives Green Light to Green Exchange

Green Exchange got its approval from federal futures regulators this week to launch a trading platform that will list contracts tied to credits and allowances for greenhouses gases.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Friday it had appro

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Paulson May Open New Retail Fund

Paulson & Company, the hedge fund linked to civil fraud charges against Goldman Sachs, will begin a new fund that will be open to retail investors, The Financial Times reported.

The fund will be introduced later this year in conjunction with Deuts

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Healthy Dryland Winter Wheat Harvest Begins

A cool and moist late spring may have posed problems for some Washington crops, but it could be a boon to dryland wheat farmers.

Yields of Washington winter wheat are predicted this year to reach about 65 bushels per acre, up from 59 bushels in 20

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More Problems for Apple with White iPhone 4

On Friday, Apple confirmed that the manufacturing difficulties long reported with the white version of its updated smartphone have prompted the company the break down and admit that it simply won't be available until later this year. "White models of

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Gold Rally Changing the Face of Poker Chips

High-stakes poker players can forget about plastic chips and use real gold, silver and platinum coins. The United States Gold Bureau has unveiled a line of "High Roller" poker sets that use real American Eagle coins from the U.S. Mint instead of trad

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Stocks Soar as AT&T, Others Release Big Earnings

AT&T's second quarter earnings are a full 26% higher (year over year) with total earnings of $4 billion (compared to only $3.2 billion in the same quarter in 2009). On the heels of a strong fiscal year to date, AT&T raised its outlook for the rest o

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Hedge Funds’ Systemic Threat Not Clear

The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission said she is unsure if any hedge funds present “systemic risks” to the global economy.

Speaking to a House Financial Services subcommittee yesterday, Chairman Mary Schapiro said “it’s reall

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CME Group Issues Statement on Wall Street Reform

CME Group issued the following statement on signage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law by President Obama:

"We applaud the hard work and dedication of the Administration and Congress in crafting this historic

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Panhandle Wheat Crop Looking Good

Almost all the wheat produced this year in the Panhandle is in, and it looks like a banner harvest.

Ninety-seven percent of the crop has been brought in from the fields, and while the cash price still isn't as high as producers would like, it has

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Warren Buffett's Banks of Choice Perform Well

Warren Buffett's two largest common stock investments in the commercial banking sector both reported strong results.

U.S. Bancorp and Wells Fargo both reported second-quarter earnings this morning that topped analyst expectations. Both stocks were

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TD Ameritrade's 3Q Driven By Active Trading

As reported by the AP, record trading activity during a volatile quarter "helped lift TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.'s fiscal third-quarter net income by 5 percent to beat expectations."

On Tuesday, the online brokerage said that during the quarter,

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