Why China's Soybean Tariff Changed Everything

[errolanderson]

Markets again roiling tonite on Trump’s proposed additional $100 billion tariff on Chinese imports . . . .

[errolanderson]

Difficult to predict tomorrow movement, but stocks suggest pressure across global commodity markets overnite. Beans again under pressure, gold up, canola off just modestly. Markets very sensitive to trade comments, ducking and dodging right now.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/trump-asks-us-trade-representative-to-consider-100-billion-in-additional-tariffs-on-chinese-products.html

What are some other opinions from agrivillers out there?

[farmaholic]

.....you don't say, according to some views there's hypocrisy, sacred cows and sacrificial lambs?

Some pieces on the chess board have more value than others. Some are expendable. Some are carefully guarded.

[burnt]

.....you don't say, according to some views there's hypocrisy, sacred cows and sacrificial lambs?

Some pieces on the chess board have more value than others. Some are expendable. Some are carefully guarded.

What's this talk about "sacred cows"? We ain't India, boy! And chess? Are you suggesting my soybean field is a square on a chess board? Or that I am just a pawn? What foolish nonsense is this? (Well I know I'm not a bishop and you ain't no shining knight... )

Oh, wait...

[errolanderson]

I view numbers as reality - otherwise the analyst you are reading might have had a tide pod for breakfast.

Larry, I guess I must have had a 'tide pod' moment . . . what is your estimate of U.S. economic growth this year?

[farming101]

Last week China announces a proposal for a tariff on US soybean imports.
This week new crop soybeans gap higher.