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Chicago grains closed lower as a dollar at a 1.5-year high pressured export competitiveness. Wheat fell 2.8%, corn dropped 1.3% and soybeans slipped 0.2% on the day, with soybeans still up for the week after profit-taking.
A stronger dollar makes US grain more expensive for overseas buyers, which weighs on export demand and futures prices. Routine daily moves like this carry limited new information.
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.