EU Grains Close - Friday

Posted by Nogger - a legend in his own mind at 16:10 | Categorized as

W/E 27/01/17 -- EU grains closed narrowly mixed Friday with Jan 17 London wheat up GBP0.05/tonne at GBP148.35/tonne, Mar 17 Paris wheat down EUR0.50/tonne at EUR169.50/tonne, Mar 17 Paris corn unchanged at EUR171.25/tonne and Feb 17 Paris rapeseed up EUR0.50/tonne to EUR428.25/tonne.

For the week Jan 17 London wheat was up GBP0.60/tonne, Mar 17 Paris wheat was down EUR0.25/tonne, Mar 17 Paris corn rose EUR1.25/tonne and Feb 17 Paris rapeseed was up EUR3.25/tonne.

London wheat prices remain firm, despite a firmer sterling this week on robust UK growth. This "likely reflects the tightness in UK supplies compared to demand this season," say the HGCA.

EU soft wheat exports are now running at 13.9 MMT, down 1 MMT or 7% on a year ago, according to the latest figures from Brussels. The EU also awarded this week 83,596 MT of Ukrainian wheat imports under a special annual tariff-free quota deal.

EU barley exports total 2.5 MMT, whilst corn imports stand at 6.0 MMT.

Egypt's GASC bought 410,000 MT of Russian wheat in a tender.

Rusagrotrans forecast Russia's Feb grain exports at 2.3-2.4 MMT versus 2.75 MMT a year previously. Wheat exports will make up 1.70-1.85 MMT of that total, a similar volume to that of Feb 2016.