Top 5 Things to Watch

By DTN Staff

OMAHA (DTN) -- Here are the Top 5 things the DTN Newsroom is tracking for the week of Jan. 18. Watch for coverage of these and other topics throughout the week on our subscription platforms as well as on www.DTNPF.com.

Note that all report release and webinar times are Central Standard Time unless otherwise noted.

1. Markets closed Monday: Commodity and equities markets will be closed Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States. Canadian markets will be open. The DTN newsroom will also be closed, except for Canadian market coverage and analysis. Regular market coverage resumes Tuesday morning with our Early Word and Before the Bell reports.

2. Bearish hangover: Grain experts are still trying to make sense out of last week's corn acreage and production numbers, which produced the first truly market-turning World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report in a long time. The surprise risks painting USDA reports in the same untrustworthy hue as an increasing number of other government-stewarded data sets. Not that anyone ever questioned a WASDE report before ...

3. Drought begins to take hold: While a number of weather clippers will come across the heart of the country this week, the areas experiencing some form of drought continue to expand. We'll see what precipitation those cold bands spawn. We're also watching the pattern flip from La Nina to El Nino. Read more on that here: https://www.dtnpf.com/…

4. Biofuels meetings begin: Our Environmental Editor Todd Neeley will be at the Clean Fuels Alliance of America meeting this week in Orlando, Florida, watching for policy pushes on 45Z and other biofuels efforts.

5. Reports due this week: Monday, no reports because of Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Tuesday at 10 a.m. we'll see Grain Inspections numbers. At 2 p.m. the latest Chicken and Eggs report data are released. Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. New Residential Construction numbers, followed at 9 a.m. by Construction Spending (delayed from October) and Pending Home Sales (also October numbers due to government shutdown). At 1 p.m. the Bioenergy Statistics report from ERS is out. At 2 p.m., Broiler Hatchery. Thursday at 7:30 a.m. several reports including Initial Jobless Claims, Grain Export Sales and GDP 3rd quarter data are released. At 10 a.m. the EIA Weekly Petroleum Status including ethanol report are out. At 10:30 a.m. we'll see Weekly Economic Index numbers, then at 2 p.m., Livestock Slaughter and Slaughter Weekly. Friday at 7:30 a.m., Personal Income and Spending (delayed from November), PCE Index and Core PCE Index from November will be released. At 8:45 a.m., S&P Flash Services P.M.I for January and Flash Manufacturing P.M.I. for January are due. At 9 a.m., we're expecting Consumer Sentiment, followed by Cotton Ginnings data at 11 a.m. At 2 p.m. look for the latest Cattle-on-Feed numbers, including DTN analysis, followed by Milk Production and Poultry Slaughter. At 2:30 p.m. we'll see the CFTC Commitment of Traders report.

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