Thursday

Thursday exports good in beans and rice, a bit soft elsewhere.   Kind of a buy the rumor, sell the fact day and risk off in the financials as well.  Rice settled unchanged, 1758.  Beans off 17 to 1437.  Corn slipped 8 1/4 to 679 1/4, and wheat bounced from lows but still 5 1/2 down on the day, 840 1/2.  Dow closed down 161 points, 32,017, and bonds down 13 tics as well, 120.10.  It took a decent bounce in both financial quotes to get to these settles, so the computer did probe lower.