At the close at 4:30 pm (Brasília time), this Monday (22), the May contract fell 8.75 points and 1.57% on the Chicago Stock Exchange (CBOT), traded at US$ cents 549.00 / bushel . July fell 7.25 points and 1.35% to $ 531.50 / bushel. The first session of the week was marked by technical profit-making movements and the absence of international purchases of over 100,000 tonnes of US cereal this afternoon. In the last week, China has accumulated purchases of 3.876 million tonnes of corn. The market is also attentive to the growth of cases, hospitalizations and deaths caused by the coronavirus in the world, despite the advance of vaccination and development of immunizers. South America's climate is also on the radar.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.