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Welcome to Markets Desk, your end-of-week rundown on what's moving and why.
Soybean futures closed Friday deep in the red, with contracts off seven to fifteen and a half cents on the session. July beans shed thirty-one cents on the week, and cash prices at the national average fell nineteen cents to eleven dollars and nine and a quarter. Pressure has been building all week, with bears firmly in control heading into the weekend.
Switching to energy, natural gas staged a sharp Friday rally, with the June Nymex contract climbing over two percent to close at a six-week high for the nearest-future contract. The driver here is straightforward — forecasters are calling for above-normal temperatures across the country, which lifts expectations for air-conditioning demand and, by extension, power-sector consumption of gas. Weather is doing the heavy lifting for bulls right now.
And a story drawing serious scrutiny — Fortune is reporting that President Trump's personal brokerage account made notable trades around his own market-moving decisions, selling hyperscaler tech positions and rotating into energy stocks during a period when his public statements were reshaping both sectors. The timing is raising pointed questions about the intersection of policy and personal finance at the highest level.
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