Latest News From Jim Wiesemeyer

Traders await U.S. inflation reports this week | USDA supply/demand updates Wednesday

SCOTUS on Tues. takes up Prop 12 case | Inflation reports Wed. and Thurs.

Biden warns of nuclear 'Armageddon,’ mulls off-ramp for Putin | Update on railroad strike issues

Gallop poll shows major shift to GOP | Karl Rove gives Senate predictions

Waiting on OPEC+ decision on production cuts

Report: White House rules out banning natural gas exports | U.S. equities continue rally

British gov’t drops plans to cut income tax for top earners | Is Credit Suisse in financial trouble?

Employment report Friday | Flurry of Fed speakers again | CR signed into law | Prop 12 challenge

Senate out until Nov. 14, House to follow after approving stopgap spending bill today | FTC goes after Syngenta, Corteva

‘Where’s Jackie?’ is not what the White House wanted as key takeaway from Wednesday White House confab

Russia suspected of pipeline sabotage | Putin again comments on Ukraine grain export deal

Home prices cooled in July at fastest rate in history of S&P Case-Shiller Index

House Ag panel Republicans want some answers on alleged Biden/USDA overreach using executive actions

House Ag panel Republicans want some answers on alleged Biden/USDA overreach using executive actions

Friday brings key economic and ag sector reports

All food prices up most since 1979

USDA’s AMS wants to mandate cattle contract reporting; NAMI claims AMS lacks legal authority

Japan intervenes to support yen | $2.9 bil. in U.S. global food aid | Protests in Russia, Iran

Fed expected to hike rates by another 75 basis points, but key is what comes next

U.K. PM: No U.S./U.K. trade deal for now; Britain to focus on trade deals elsewhere

Cotton analyst questions USDA projections

Work on CR | Rail strike update | Food price update | Funeral for Queen Elizabeth II

The details of the tentative agreement reached on Thursday morning have not been shared, and could still be voted down by members who need to ratify the agreement to settle the matter.

U.S. equities continue to crater as weaker outlook for U.S., world economy

Putin acknowledges China may have ‘questions and concerns’ about the war

Update on potential rail strike as Congress, White House get more involved

Striking a balance among rail industry stakeholders is proving difficult

Oncoming freight train as ag sector braces for possible major railroad strike Friday

Discord surfaces between railroads and two big unions

USDA Thursday will try again to release weekly export sales report

Sen. Grassley has some revealing comments on ag disaster aid and livestock market reforms

Oil prices plunge to lowest level since January over global economic growth concerns

China’s exports in August show sharp slowdown from July, weakest expansion since April

WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala gives somber assessment of world trade, economy

Truss declared British PM after Tory ballot win | Judge grants special master re: Mar-A-Lago docs

Podesta to serve as senior advisor on ‘clean energy innovation and implementation’

G7 agrees to implement price cap for global purchases of Russian oil; Russia responds

USDA updates farm income forecasts

China wants some sort of rebuke of Pelosi before talking on climate

Crude prices continue to plunge but IEA eyes more SPR releases

Ukraine mounts counteroffensive | U.S. to sell $1.1 bil. in missiles & radar support to Taiwan

Fly me to the moon… delayed until later this week due to fuel leak

Split Ticket: ‘Democrats may very well be favored to retain their majority’ in Senate

IRA gives USDA Sec. Vilsack $324 million in administrative/implementation funds

California governor’s climate advisor: Mission is to ‘move state away from oil’

Agency takes system offline and is retracting weekly export sales info initially released

California to announce today a ban on sales of new cars that use gasoline by 2035

Lawyer says reports are ‘much ado about nothing’

White House unveils $3 billion military aid package for Ukraine

Dollar is dominant as euro moves below dollar and China’s currency at weakest in two years