At 2:55 pm (Brasilia time), this Monday (15), the May contract rose 1.50 points and 0.28% Chicago Stock Exchange (CBOT), traded at US$ cents 539.50 / bushel. July was up 1.25 points and 0.24%, at $ cents 529.50 / bushel. The first session of the week follows the upward bias of the last week, in addition to the climate in South America and optimism about the recovery of the global economy with the vaccination of the coronavirus. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) also reported today that shipments of corn from the country reached 2.204 million tonnes in the week ended March 11, up 31.7% above 1.673 million tonnes previously and 52.7% above the weekly average of 1,443m tonnes projected for the harvest.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.