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Welcome to Markets Desk, your midday check on what's moving.
Wheat is taking a serious hit across all three exchanges today, with Chicago soft red winter futures down as much as twenty-five cents and Kansas City hard red winter off by roughly twenty-four cents at midday. The pressure traces back to Thursday, when the Trump and Xi meeting wrapped without any meaningful signals on agricultural purchases, leaving grain traders with little reason to hold long positions into the weekend.
Shifting to the bond market, global sovereign debt is selling off sharply on fears that a potential escalation involving Iran could deliver an inflation shock to an already fragile macro backdrop. Traders are pricing in the possibility of higher interest rates from the Federal Reserve as data releases this week came in worse than expected, dragging equities lower in sympathy and putting duration risk squarely back in focus.
On the fiscal policy front, California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a three hundred fifty billion dollar state budget on Thursday, notably balanced without a deficit for the current and coming year. Newsom took direct aim at Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the broader federal economic posture, but the headline for markets is the discipline shown at the state level, with no major new spending and no significant cuts.
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