Soybeans and other crops soared as progress in negotiations between the US and China lifted hopes that the world\u2019s two largest economies were edging toward a deal in their protracted trade war.<\/p>\n
Soy futures<\/a> rose as much as 2.8% in Chicago, reaching the highest since July 2024. That came after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said China would make \u201csubstantial\u201d purchases<\/a> of the oilseed under a pact the two countries are close to finalizing. Wheat<\/a> jumped by the most since Aug. 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soybeans and other crops soared as progress in negotiations between the US and China lifted hopes that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1347,72,2193,114,11507,113,61,8868,60,47466,14849,123,9162,541,2737],"class_list":["post-107220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-brazil","tag-business","tag-chicago","tag-china","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-imports","tag-ireland","tag-jinping-xi","tag-july-sarl-caen","tag-markets","tag-south-america","tag-south-korea","tag-trade-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}