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":103955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[575,138,6056,607,15583,219,3215,29283,19083,220,111,139,69,23813,4790,1429],"class_list":{"0":"post-103954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-donald-john-trump","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-imports","15":"tag-jinping-xi","16":"tag-july-sarl-caen","17":"tag-markets","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-south-america","22":"tag-south-korea","23":"tag-trade-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}