The peso closed at 18.8385 per dollar in spot trading, down 0.19% from the previous Friday close. The currency had depreciated 4.08% in October and posted eight straight weeks of losses.
Analysts at Monex attributed the pressure to hedging demand ahead of the US midterm elections and a stronger dollar.
Weakness in the peso raises the local-currency cost of imported feed ingredients for Mexico. The story describes a prior session's currency moves and does not signal a new driver for grain prices.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.