The fiscal cliff deal could sharply boost commodity markets
date:Jan 04, 2013
rther short-term losses.

It will be very interesting to see how livestock futures react to overnight news of a Congressional deal to avoid going over the fiscal cliff. It seems bullish, but a sustained cattle and hog rebound is in no way guaranteed. February live cattle futures fell 1.27 cents to 132.30 Monday, while April dipped 0.85 cents to 136.37 cents/pound.

As expected, CME lean hog futures reacted badly to the quarterly USDA Hogs Pigs report, since most of the stated numbers modestly e
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