Prospects for much-needed precipitation in the southern US - wheat growing area, a stronger U.S. dollar as well as positioning before the today's USDA report (18 h CET) had losses close the wheat prices in Chicago yesterday. Institutional investors increased their holdings of net short positions to 8,000 lots CBoT SRW wheat. The eCBoT is weaker to the hour. With low sales, was followed by the Weizenfutures on the Euronext in Paris the negative requirements from overseas and also eased. The French agricultural market analyst FranceAgriMer lowered his forecast for the Weizenendbestand of season 2016/17 from 2.7 million tons to 2.6 million tons. Therefore, France may export 4.8 million tons of wheat to third countries outside the EU. Last month, it was still by 4.7 million tonnes. 63% would however be less than in the previous season. The Ukraine exported 10.8 million tons of wheat in the first half of the current Vermarktungssaison. These are 70 percent of the possible total export volume of the Black Sea neighbor. In Hamburg the standard wheat premiums 12% remained in protein delivery January almost unchanged at € 4.50 on Euronext März 17.
