Lower Soybean Prices Improve China’s Crush Margins But Losses are Still Very Large.
Summary: China’s “spot” soybean crushing margin today is -182 Yuan/MT, up from its recent multi-year low. The “forward” margin is -14 Yuan/MT vs a week ago when it was -50 Yuan/MT. In addition, the forward margin is 9 Yuan above what it was a year ago. In the Apr WASDE, the USDA left its projection of China’s soybean imports unchanged at 88 MMT. …