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Soybeans put in a resilient week despite a rough midday session Friday. The USDA raised production and stocks estimates, pushing front months down twelve to thirteen cents at the lows, but buyers stepped back in and November beans finished the week up nearly fourteen cents, with the national cash price settling around twelve dollars and thirty-four cents.
Turning to equities, Cathie Wood's ARK trimmed roughly four point seven million dollars from its SpaceX position over two consecutive sessions, the eighth of October marking the second consecutive reduction. When ARK scales back a core growth holding after a strong rally, it tends to signal profit discipline rather than conviction shift, but the market watches every Wood move closely given her influence on retail sentiment.
And on the broader macro picture, the week ending October ninth of twenty twenty-six was quieter on the surface than it felt underneath. The Nasdaq-one hundred and ten-year Treasury yields both finished essentially flat, but developments in the Iran conflict and evolving Federal Reserve rate path expectations kept traders on edge, reminding us that flat tape rarely means calm conditions.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
