The CFTC's latest Commitment of Traders data offers key insights into futures market sentiment and positioning. Tracking long versus short positions reveals overall bullish or bearish trends among ...

Institutional investor activity, or "smart money," is closely tracked for market insights using CFTC's Commitment of Traders (CoT) reports, but those have been dark for weeks. This disruption has ...

--Wheat for March delivery rose 1.1%, to $5.15 1/4 a bushel, on the Chicago Board of Trade on Monday, with conflicts like U.S.-Venezuela and Russia-Ukraine creating risk for 2026 wheat supplies.

Live cattle futures saw gains of 82 cents to $1.22 on Wednesday. Cash trade has seen light $229 sales this week but not enough for a trend. The Wednesday morning Fed Cattle Exchange showed dressed ...

Lean hog futures posted 25 to 35 cent gains across the front months on Friday, with December down 7 cents upon expiration. February was up $2.25 last week. Friday’s open interest was up 889 contracts.

--Corn for July delivery rose 1.2%, to $4.60 a bushel, on the Chicago Board of Trade on Wednesday, with corn futures seen as having found a bottom as planting nears a conclusion. --Soybeans for July ...

Mumbai, Jan. 5 -- Precious metals speculators continued to raise their net long position in the Gold futures, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures ...