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Live Cattle Cash (LEY00)
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Live Cattle Futures Market News and Commentary

Cattle Rally Stalling in Broad Market Weakness

With decent Export Sales demand and cheaper feed grains, the fat cattle futures are trading triple digits in the red as ag futures generally drop through Thursday. The feeders are down $0.87 in Sep, but $2 in the other nearbys. Cash trade remains light for the week, with USDA confirming $184-$186 for the WCB in the few confirmed trades. The CME Feeder Cattle Index increased 55 cents to $253.42 on 9/19. 

Going into Friday’s COF report, analysts expect NASS to report a 2.3% lower inventory of ~11.023m head. The full range of estimates for Sep 1 is from -3.1% to -1% from Sep ’22. Placements are expected to be 6.7% lower yr/yr on average. The average estimate for marketings is to be 94.7% of LY. 

Weekly beef bookings were 13,746 MT for the week that ended 9/14 according to the Export Sales report. That was up form the CY low last week, but was down 9% from the same week last year. Both Japan and South Korea were buyers for over 3k MT. USDA reported 15,166 MT were shipped dur... Read more

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Price Performance

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Period Period Low Period High Performance
1-Month
179.000 +1.94%
on 09/15/23
182.480 unch
on 09/20/23
+3.480 (+1.94%)
since 08/18/23
3-Month
174.000 +4.87%
on 06/30/23
182.480 unch
on 09/20/23
-2.520 (-1.36%)
since 06/20/23
52-Week
142.000 +28.51%
on 09/22/22
190.000 -3.96%
on 06/09/23
+40.480 (+28.51%)
since 09/20/22

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Barchart Trading Guide

The Barchart Trading Guide is a Buy Signal with a Weak Signal Strength.

Key Turning Points

3rd Resistance Point 182.480
2nd Resistance Point 182.480
1st Resistance Point 182.480
Last Price 182.480s
1st Support Level 182.480
2nd Support Level 182.480
3rd Support Level 182.480

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52-Week High 190.000
Last Price 182.480s
Fibonacci 61.8% 171.664
Fibonacci 50% 166.000
Fibonacci 38.2% 160.336
52-Week Low 142.000

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