Markets Start Mostly Higher in a More Risk on Day but Will Gains Hold?

Markets start mostly higher with a risk on day, report digestion continues and there was some export news, but will gains hold? Michelle Rook gets details with Vince Boddicker of Farmers Trading Company.

A higher start in grain and livestock prices with higher outside markets like the DOW and crude oil helping out, but corn and wheat are continuing to trade the positive report numbers from Friday. Soybeans trying to follow and did see some export business this morning to help. Cattle are seeing corrective buying, with hogs sliding with more fund liquidation and lower cutouts. Michelle Rook gets details with Vince Boddicker of Farmers Trading Company.

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