Cotton Showing Slight Recovery on Monday Morning

Austin Schroeder Barchart Mon Oct 13, 7:42AM CDT
Cotton field with drones by DJI-Agras via Pixabay

Cotton price action is up 10 to 17 points. Futures posted losses on Friday, with contracts pulling back 60 to 77 cents in the nearbys.  December was down 146 points last week. The US dollar index was back down $0.665 on the Friday session to $98.620, with crude oil $3.31/barrel lower and below the $60 level.

On Friday, President Trump announced a new 100% tariff on Chinese goods starting November 1, as well as imposing export controls on any critical software. Later over the weekend he stated to “don’t worry about China,” with markets taking a whiplash approach back higher on the walk back. 

The Cotlook A Index was back up 50 points on Thursday at 76.55 cents. ICE certified cotton stocks were steady on October 9, with the certified stocks level at 16,471 bales. 

Dec 25 Cotton  closed at 63.84, down 63 points, currently up 17 points

Mar 26 Cotton  closed at 65.6, down 74 points, currently up 13 points

May 26 Cotton  closed at 66.89, down 77 points currently up 10 points


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