U.S. wheat futures fell nearly 4% on Wednesday and European wheat fell 3% as a bumper Australian harvest and signs of continued competition from Black Sea supplies added to technical pressure, ...

The CBOT’s soybean contract covers 5,000 bushels, ... Last month, only about 50,513 contracts traded on the MidAm, roughly one-quarter of the volume in the year-earlier month.

A top official of the Chicago Board of Trade conceded Thursday that two exotic interest-rate futures contracts, called swaps, have failed to ignite significant investor interest since their summer … ...

The most-active CBOT wheat contract was up 17-3/4 cents at $7.66-3/4 a bushel by 10:45 a.m. CDT (1545 GMT), after falling on Thursday to its lowest since Feb. 3.

CHICAGO — U.S. wheat futures fell nearly 4% on Wednesday and European wheat fell 3% as a bumper Australian harvest and signs of continued competition from Black Sea supplies added to technical ...