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. …