
“Everybody is aware of the weather situations going on right now,” said Connor Noonan, an analyst with Castlestone Management in London. “Everybody has priced in the floods in Australia, and now we have flooding in South America. All of that combined, people are taking a little off the table.”
Wheat for March delivery slid 12.25 cents, or 1.5 percent, to $8.23 a bushel at 10:34 a.m. London time on the Chicago Board of Trade. The most-active contract climbed to the highest price since Aug. 6 yesterday. Milling wheat for March delivery declined 3.75 euros, or 1.4 percent, to 257.50 euros ($350.08) a metric ton on NYSE Liffe in Paris.
“The wheat market has been strong and last night outstripped the gains across the other commodity classes,” Luke Mathews, a strategist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, said by phone from Sydney. Investors may be cashing in gains from the rally in the past five sessions, he said.
Corn for March delivery declined for a second day in Chicago, losing 7 cents, or 1.1 percent, to $6.4825 a bushel. March-delivery soybeans slipped 9.5 cents, or 0.7 percent, to $13.95 a bushel.
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